Easy Ping is a plugin that adds ping to search engines support to Joomla 1.5.

It can ping popular search engines like google, yahoo, msn live, technorati, and more.

In addition it autocreates a sitemap.xml file with last 100 contents.

Also, if you use to copy images with copy&paste from another sites, it can handle them and download automatically. This helps in the way that if the other image is removed, your site continues working well.

2009-11-20 Version 1.2
* Support for a different sitemap to ping. You can write one sitemap url relative to your site and easyping will ping that sitemap instead of the default (generated) sitemap
* Problems with images with strange characters like spaces and others are not problem anymore. Easyping converts the filenames to a md5 hash of the original filename.