Adding Custom Weblog Ping Sites

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Similar to adding your custom links, you can add your own weblog pings sites by contributing to extension point "zoundry.blogapp.pubsystems.weblogping.site" (since there is no UI at this time).

  1. Download the sample weblog plug-in zip file:
    sample.zoundry.raven.blogapp.mypingsites.zip
  2. Unzip it to Raven install directory (e.g. C:\Program Files\Zoundry Raven).
  3. Restart Raven. You should now see a new weblog ping site (to Bitacoras.com).

This zip contains just one plug-in folder (for the plug-in XML file) with the plug-in containing one contribution (ping site) to the extension point "zoundry.blogapp.pubsystems.weblogping.site". The zplugin.xml can be found in the plug-in folder

<install_dir>\system\plugins\sample.zoundry.raven.blogapp.mypingsites

To add more, edit the plug-in.xml file and append additional <zoundry-extension> elements. The sample contains one <zoundry-extension> element (for Bitacoras.com) :

    <zoundry-extension point="zoundry.blogapp.pubsystems.weblogping.site">
         <!-- id for Bitacoras -->
        <id>zoundry.blogapp.pubsystems.publishers.weblogping.site.bitacoras</id>
        <extension-data>
            <weblog-ping-site>
               <name>Bitacoras.com</name>
               <url>http://ping.bitacoras.com</url>
            </weblog-ping-site>
       </extension-data>
   </zoundry-extension>

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