It worked, cool! Now I want to try it with one of my feedburner feeds! - Christian Bolstad

Let me know how it goes! - Brett Slatkin

@Brett Slatkin - Humm, I don't know if there is something at my end, but after 6 minutes still nothing (http://www.karamell.net/2009...) - Christian Bolstad

Does your CMS auto-ping FB after publishing articles? I just saw the ping come in a few seconds ago. - Brett Slatkin from email

Ah, just now it poped up for me. It (WP) does not ping FB, but feedburner, of course - Christian Bolstad

I tried again, now with all other ping services removed. It did not speed things up :( - Christian Bolstad

And there it came up, looks like there is a ~10 min delay. Not instant but still not bad. - Christian Bolstad

ooh cool - jonas

I believe the issue is that your blog's default feed is RSS2 and it's pinging FeedBurner with that, but FF is subscribed to the Atom one. Can you get your WP ping debug log? - Brett Slatkin from email

FF is subscribed to the FB feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/karamel...) and the blog is not pinging Friendfeed. Don't know where i would find the Wp ping debug log, but I can always check the apache logs in the server (or is there any setting that I don't know of?) - Christian Bolstad

Sorry for the trouble here. We'll figure it out! So your WP is only pinging the FeedBurner ping service, yeah? And you have PingShot enabled? I think the log of the ping should be in your apache logs somewhere. If you send me a message right when you push publish I can try my best to debug! Thanks for your patience! - Brett Slatkin

Ok, now I've raised my loglevel in apache to "inform" and again removed all other ping services except http://ping.feedburner.google.com. PingShot is enabled and friendfeed is watching the feedburner feed. Will post a new entry on the blog in 3 minutes and will send just a DM right before. - Christian Bolstad

Sweet. Thanks a lot for the help. I also found a small thing on the Hub side that could have contributed, so we *should* figure it out this time! I'm ready when you are. - Brett Slatkin

It's published! - Christian Bolstad

No pings yet on the Hub. Trying to track down where your FB ping went. - Brett Slatkin

Ah there it is, at 1:43pm - Brett Slatkin

yes, found it, looks like the ping was in fact delayed and that you guys picked it up fast: - Christian Bolstad

195.20.207.152 - - [17/Jul/2009:22:42:57 +0200] "POST /wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "WordPress/2.8.1; http://www.karamell.net" - Christian Bolstad

74.125.44.136 - - [17/Jul/2009:22:43:42 +0200] "GET /feed/ HTTP/1.0" 200 136263 "-" "FeedBurner/1.0 (http://www.FeedBurner.com)" - Christian Bolstad

Awesome. I see the publish come in at: 07-17 01:43PM 44.722 - Brett Slatkin

So two seconds! Not bad! - Brett Slatkin

It's ok ;) Ok, thanks! I'll tweak WP and do some more ping testing :-) - Christian Bolstad

Great. It looks like WordPress can use a cronjob to ping (instead of doing it synchronously). I guess that's the old world of pinging, since it was never real-time anyways. There's probably a way to have it ping synchronously or make the cronjob run more often. Happy to have this debugged! - Brett Slatkin

After a posting wp-cron.php should be called instantly on the next pageload, so I did several reloads. But apparently the call did not get trough as it was supposed to. I will dig a bit on it and will blog the answer. Thanks again, awesome service! - Christian Bolstad

No problem. Thank you too! - Brett Slatkin

@Brett Slatkin: I found the source of the problem, it is caused by a new "feature" in Wordpress 2.8 - http://www.karamell.net/2009... - Christian Bolstad