Drupal does have ping "right out of the box". There is a core module that notifies pingomatic. Apparently there is no configuration involved but cron must be running.
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 08:06 +0530, raj wrote:
May I know what led you to think that wordpress sites are more popular than drupal?
It is not that wordpress sites are more popular by the virtue of them being driven by wordpress. You can achieve the same success with a drupal driven site.Wordpress has trackbacks, blog and ping right out of the box. There may be plugins for those features in Drupal.
A Drupal driven site is not the same as a Wordpress driven blog. A Drupal driven site may be anything - a shopping cart, a 10 page content websites, anything. Wordpress websites are.. well blogs. You can make a blog out of Drupal and add the features that Wordpress has and achieve the same results. One good example is Performancing (www.performancing.com)