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Matt Jacob replied on August 20, 2009 21:10 to the idea "Try to Ping but the packets lost ...." in Ping.fm:

Are you trying to add a WordPress.com or WordPress.org (self-hosted) blog? There's a big difference.

Oh, and chill out. It's not like you're paying $20,000 a year for a 24/7 support contract. This is a free service, and sometimes nobody is around to help at precisely the moment you need it.

Matt Jacob started following the question "text to a phone number??? why not short code" in Ping.fm.

Matt Jacob started following the question "Emailing pics around or over 1mb does not work." in Ping.fm.

Matt Jacob replied on August 06, 2009 23:42 to the question "When will you be supporting posting on Wordpress blogs that is not hosted in Wordpress.com domain?" in Ping.fm:

Hi there, Real Estate Finance Expert (if that's your real name):

I've created a WordPress plugin to do just what you're asking. Check it out and let me know what you think!

Matt

Matt Jacob started following the question "Dude, why is your site so ungodly SLOW???" in Ping.fm.

Matt Jacob replied on August 04, 2009 18:08 to the problem "Twitter She is Hacked! No More PING!" in Ping.fm:

Uhhh... no. But if you changed your Twitter password, you need to change it at Ping.fm too. Visit https://ping.fm/twitter/ to update your login information.

Matt Jacob replied on July 19, 2009 04:22 to the idea "New version of WordPress Custom URL plugin released" in Ping.fm:

Glad you got everything working. Everyone should be using PHP 5, because PHP 4 has been EOL'd for at least a year now. New features coming soon... I promise.

Matt Jacob replied on July 16, 2009 22:18 to the problem "not working, is there a know problem??" in Ping.fm:

Works for me. I can log in and ping.

Matt Jacob replied on July 15, 2009 20:07 to the problem "Photo posting not working" in Ping.fm:

See these related issues: Emailing picture fails and Palm Pre email updates.

Matt Jacob replied on July 15, 2009 17:30 to the question "Newbie wonders about updating statuses from Twitter directly?" in Ping.fm:

Right.

Think of it as a hub and spoke model, where Ping.fm is the hub and all your social networking sites are the spokes. Or maybe it would be more helpful to think of Ping.fm as the hydro-electric power plant, and all your social networks are somewhere downstream. Or maybe... just kidding. :-)

But yeah, you post to Ping, and it posts to everything else. Not the other way around. However, there are many ways to post to Ping, including email, SMS, IM, web, and 3rd-party apps. Lots of possibilities.

Hope that helps!

Matt

Matt Jacob replied on July 14, 2009 20:58 to the idea "pop out posting box" in Ping.fm:

Doesn't this feature already exist?

Matt Jacob started following the idea "organisation vs. person?" in Ping.fm.

Matt Jacob started following the problem "Emailing picture fails." in Ping.fm.

Matt Jacob replied on July 04, 2009 20:14 to the problem "cannot add wordpress account" in Ping.fm:

WordPress.com or WordPress.org (self-hosted)?

Matt Jacob replied on July 04, 2009 20:12 to the problem "wordpress" in Ping.fm:

What type of blog are you trying to post to? Is it WordPress.com or WordPress.org (self-hosted)?

Matt Jacob replied on July 04, 2009 20:11 to the question "I am posting to a Wordpress blog, but not being published." in Ping.fm:

WordPress.com or WordPress.org (self-hosted)?

Matt Jacob started following the question "Custom URL Weirdness!" in Ping.fm.

Matt Jacob shared an idea in Ping.fm on June 27, 2009 20:00:

New version of WordPress Custom URL plugin released

Hey everyone,

Version 1.2.1 of my WordPress plugin for Ping.fm was released today, and you should totally upgrade if you haven't yet. If you're still using 1.1.0, the latest releases have added a lot of shine and polish to the total package.

Coming up next: pictures posted from Ping.fm can optionally be sucked down into the native WordPress photo/media gallery. It's gonna be suh-weeeeet!

Matt

Note 1: This has nothing to do with WordPress.com blogs. It's only for self-hosted WordPress blogs (where you run WP on your own server).

Note 2: This plugin is not to be confused with the PingPressFM plugin. Mine uses Ping.fm's Custom URL feature to go from Ping to your blog. The other plugin essentially works in reverse.

Matt Jacob replied on June 26, 2009 05:50 to the problem "Ping.fm not posting updates to WordPress" in Ping.fm:

Hey there, I'm the developer of that plugin, and I haven't heard of anyone having problems. Is everything working OK now, or are you still having problems?

The PHP requirement was changed from PHP 4 to PHP 5 a few releases ago, so that might have been the source of your problems. But if you're still running PHP 4, you've got bigger problems to worry about than plugin incompatibilities. ;-)

Matt Jacob started following the question "Pictures posted via email are not working." in Ping.fm.