Title: wp-admin/post.php hangs
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# wp-admin/post.php hangs

 *  [CygnusTM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cygnustm/)
 * (@cygnustm)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-adminpostphp-hangs/)
 * I posted a couple of days ago about this. I have a better idea of what’s going
   on now, but I don’t know how to fix it. After doing some PHP debugging, I’ve 
   found that whenever I publish a new post or save a published post that has a 
   link in it, WP appears to be opening connections to those servers. I guess it’s
   not getting what it wants from those servers, because the connections hang which,
   in turn, hangs the web server. At that point my site is dead. I unchecked “Attempt
   to notify any Weblogs linked to from the article” on the Discussion options, 
   but it is still doing this. Is this a bug?

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 *  [Jeff Rose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/talus/)
 * (@talus)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-adminpostphp-hangs/#post-212112)
 * That’s awesome. I’ve been confused about this problem for the last 2 days. Your
   solution seems to work wonderfully!!! Thanks a lot!
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-adminpostphp-hangs/#post-212130)
 * It’s probably not a bug with WP. WP waits for a return ping from the pinged sites
   before it continues back to a blank post.php. More than likely, the pinged sites
   are not returning the pings.
 *  Thread Starter [CygnusTM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cygnustm/)
 * (@cygnustm)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-adminpostphp-hangs/#post-212177)
 * Why is it still doing it when I have the option unchecked? Surely, that’s a bug.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-adminpostphp-hangs/#post-212242)
 * How many Update Services do you have listed in Options/Writing? And, are you 
   running WP v1.5.1.2?
 *  Thread Starter [CygnusTM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cygnustm/)
 * (@cygnustm)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-adminpostphp-hangs/#post-212475)
 * Now I’m stumped. I removed the single entry in Update Services and commented 
   out the pingback lines in post.php, and it still hangs. I guess I’ll just have
   to have patience.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [CygnusTM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cygnustm/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-adminpostphp-hangs/#post-212475)
 * Status: not resolved

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