I recently installed version 2.9 of Wordpress for an affiliate site I’m building and noticed that after publishing a post the pingbacks and tracebacks weren’t working. Unable to figure out a solution I searched the Web and finally came across an easy fix for this bug. Props to Karen from BlazingMinds.co.uk for figuring this problem out.

Here’s how she fixed the bug:

Find your “wp-includes/cron.php” file

Look for the following code in the cron.php file:

$cron_url = get_option( ’siteurl’ ) . ‘/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron’;
wp_remote_post( $cron_url, array(‘timeout’ => 0.01, ‘blocking’ => false, ’sslverify’ => apply_filters(‘https_local_ssl_verify’, true)) );

You’ll need to change the 0.01 value in the above example to 1 in the below example below.

$cron_url = get_option( ’siteurl’ ) . ‘/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron’;
wp_remote_post( $cron_url, array(‘timeout’ => 1, ‘blocking’ => false, ’sslverify’ => apply_filters(‘https_local_ssl_verify’, true)) );

Remember to backup the original cron.php file before saving and now your blog’s pingbacks and tracebacks should be working!

You can read more about Karen’s fix here: http://blazingminds.co.uk/wordpress-stops-pinging-fix/

Thanks for the fix Karen!

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