@jibberjab when the post has a future issue date, a scheduled job (Send notifications for «item title» http://b2evolution.net/man/task-send-post-notifications) is created.

So, if your cron is properly configured, pings and notifications will be sent after the post is publicly published.

Sample posts creation doesn't trigger any notifications because those contents are direclty injected into the database on the install process.

I don't see "Send notifications for «item title»" as an available task in the scheduler. Is it automatically generated by the system? In that case does it rely on another task to execute it? My other tasks execute properly so I presume this one will also.

@jibberjab those new jobs are shceduled when you click on "Publish!" and the issue date of the post is in the future (see the screenshot below).

It will be processed as the rest of your jobs, so if they are working correctly, the new one will also be executed normally.

@jibberjab For additional info, please see: http://b2evolution.net/man/after-each-post-settings