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Important updat - 7th October 2007

If you are using a recently downloaded version of windows live writer the information in this post is no longer valid. Please read this post for an easy walkthrough to setup newer versions of Windows Live Writer for Drupal blogging.

Hi, the great ping debacle goes on. It seems that drupal will only ping if a cron run reports new content on the frontpage. Which could account for the lack of pinging I experienced when I put new content on the blog pages only (i don't particularly want all my blogs to be posted to the front page, although I suppose from an SEO perspective it is not a bad thing - dynamically changing content etc).

I have been pretty successful in installing Drupal. The last hurdle is to understand this Ping module.

Obviously it is designed to ping various sites to notify of changes and updates. It seems to be configured to ping a site called www.pingomatic.com which in turn pings the other major ping servers, such as weblogs.com etc.