XML-RPC Pingbacks

This tag collects PostRSS technical explainers about WordPress XML-RPC pingbacks and how they relate (or don't) to RSS-based social media automation. It's a genuinely common point of confusion since both involve WordPress automatically notifying something when content is published. These articles clarify the distinction, cover the security reasoning behind disabling XML-RPC, and explain what actually determines how quickly auto-posted content reaches social media. The short version is that pingbacks have nothing to do with how fast an auto-posting tool sees your feed, so disabling XML-RPC for security costs you nothing here. What decides the speed is how often the feed is polled, which is every 5 minutes on all PostRSS plans.