[wp-hackers] future post, future ping?

[Austin Matzko]

On Nov 18, 2007 2:11 AM, Max <maxbear at gmail.com> wrote:
> As far as I know, when you make a future post, wordpress will ping it
> in the future only. Is it really true for 2.3.1?
>
> But I found a plugin which said wordpress ping is dangerous to use,
> sine when you make a future post, it will ping that post at the time
> you press the publish button.

Prior to version 2.1, WordPress would ping at the time you hit
"publish," even for future posts.  For versions including 2.1 and
newer, WP sets the status of the post to "future" and uses the
built-in cron to publish the post (and do the associated actions, such
as pinging) at that future time.