scottsm

For a while, I’ve been a bit annoyed with WordPress losing pings (those automatic links on your blog when someone links to you) anytime someone links to more than one of my posts. It turns out WordPress’s comment flood prevention is getting in the way. This plugin prevents WordPress from discarding these pings.

WP_PingPreserver

Prevents WordPress from eating pings that come too quickly in succession (i.e. a single post linking to more than one of your pages).

Gabriel Koen

** This plugin now works! ** It broke shortly after I originally uploaded it last year. People are still downloading it, so I decided to make it work. I revamped it and made it totally compatible with the latest version of WordPress.
External Related Posts takes the category, tags or custom taxonomy from your post (or custom post type) and searches Google Blog Search for related posts. External Related Posts then adds a link to that blog to your post and pings them, letting them know you made a relevant post on their subject.
Controls exist for how many blogs to search for, whether to only post links to blogs that accept pingbacks, how many pingbacks to perform, and a randomizer for how often External Related Posts activates (e.g., every post, 50% of your posts, 25% of your posts).
Github: https://github.com/mintindeed/external-related-posts
WordPress.org: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/external-related-posts/
Image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tobanblack/3773116901/" rel="nofollow ugc">Toban Black</a>; some rights reserved. See link for details.
<h3>Licence</h3>
External Related Posts is released under GPL v2.

External Related Posts

Grabs related links from Google Blog Search, inserts a link to them into your post and gives them a pingback.

WP_PingPreserver vs External Related Posts