Title: Plugin not triggering ping or other plugins
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Plugin not triggering ping or other plugins

 *  [vleap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vleap/)
 * (@vleap)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-triggering-ping-or-other-plugins/)
 * Hello
 * I have had a plugin developed that imports posts from an XML file into wordpress.
   The import works fine, but the published posts are not triggering pings or other
   plugins that act on a pubish event (e.g. a twitter posting plugin such as tweetly).
 * It uses the wp api.. inserts the post initially as “draft” with a ping_status
   of “open” the following code:
 * > $my_post = array();
   >  $my_post[‘post_title’] = $Heading; $my_post[‘post_name’]
   > = $post_slug; $my_post[‘post_content’] = $Content; $my_post[‘post_status’] 
   > = ‘draft’; $my_post[‘post_author’] = $AutorID; $my_post[‘post_category’] = 
   > array($term_id);
   > $my_post[‘ping_status’] = ‘open’;
   >  $my_post[‘to_ping’] = ”; $my_post[‘pinged’]
   > = ”; $my_post[‘post_date’] = $post_date; $my_post[‘post_date_gmt’] = $post_date;
   > $my_post[‘post_type’] = ‘post’;
   > $post_ID = wp_insert_post($my_post);
   > do_action(‘publish_post’, $post_ID);
   >  wp_publish_post($post_ID);
 * The posts are posted (added) and are published – and so this code seems to be
   working.
 * But – the posts are never pinged.. and the twitter plugin (tweetly) doesn’t pick
   it up either. Both of these work when manually adding a post.
 * Any advice / guidance would be appreciated.
 * Thanks in advance

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