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 *   Forum: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/)
   
   In reply to: [Trying to understand the “ping” process](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trying-to-understand-the-ping-process/)
 *  Thread Starter [xwing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xwing/)
 * (@xwing)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trying-to-understand-the-ping-process/#post-710490)
 * Hi Otto,
 * Thank you so much! It’s getting clearer and clearer.
 * Just so that I get all this down pat, is this ‘fictitious’
    scenario correct?
 * ————————————–
    Assuming I made 2 post, one at 9:50pm and another at 9:57pm BUT
   nobody (not even myself) browse the site or reload the page.
 * Then, at 10:02pm, somebody visited the blog, and thus trigged the wp-cron.
 * The wp-cron will then “publish” those 2 post immediately, and send out only ONE
   ping to tell those update services that this blog has been updated.
    ————————————–
 * Correct?
 * Many, many thanks!
 * xw
 *   Forum: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/)
   
   In reply to: [Trying to understand the “ping” process](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trying-to-understand-the-ping-process/)
 *  Thread Starter [xwing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xwing/)
 * (@xwing)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trying-to-understand-the-ping-process/#post-710468)
 * Hi Otto,
 * Thanks, that makes it very clear.
 * I suppose when a new post is made, it has some kind of ‘status flag’ set – and
   when the site (example.com) is viewed, the ‘wp-cron’ will check for posts with
   that flag set.
 * If found, then it will send the “ping” ?
 * Sorry for the layman way of describing … is it something like that?
 * Thanks for your time Otto.
 * xw
 *   Forum: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/)
   
   In reply to: [Trying to understand the “ping” process](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trying-to-understand-the-ping-process/)
 *  Thread Starter [xwing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xwing/)
 * (@xwing)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trying-to-understand-the-ping-process/#post-710457)
 * Hi Otto,
 * Many thanks for replying. Now I’m even more confused 🙂
 * When I make a post (via the write –> post in WP admin), it won’t ping the update
   service?
 * The ping will only be sent after someone has viewed that new page/post?
 * Thanks,
    xw

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