Latest version of Press This Tool – problems

Hi,

I just previewed the new Press This for some colleagues and it’s working as it should with populating backlinks to the source and everything else, have you added the new version of the bookmarklet from your admin page?

Hi Marius, thank you for your quick response.

Yes I did upload the new version from my admin pages, but I got a 404 error message. In the previous versions, this error message came up for some of my websites, but I got around it by copying/pasting the code from one that worked and amending to suit the URL. This always worked for me, but when I tried to do the same this time around, it didn’t work properly. I could get the content into the blog, but the backlink to the originating site didn’t populate.

However, I found an article that talked about the 404 error and recommended contacting Hostgator to get them to make changes to allow it to work. That’s on my ‘to do’ list today.

Hopefully that fixes it. If not, I may have to use a plugin to do the same thing, but don’t really want to take this approach. Don’t like having too many plugins on my sites.

Are you able to recommend a plugin to do content curation, just in case I need to take this route?

Again, thanks heaps for letting me know that it does work and it’s not a problem with ‘Press This’. (Really love that tool – it’s been awesome – hope I can fix the issue and continue to use it).

Thanks again for taking the time to respond.

Cheers

Hi,

I’m not familiar with any Press This plugins that would do the same, but I’m very interested in the article your found that related to HG possibly having something in place causing issues, could you share this article with us?

Also do let us know when you’ve been in contact with them and if it sorts it self after that!

Hi Marius, I will be contacting Hostgator either later today or tomorrow so will let you know the outcome.

Here’s the link to the article:

https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/press-this/

You’ll have to scroll down to find the troubleshooting 404 suggestion.

I’m hoping that that will be the solution. Fingers crossed.

Thanks for your ongoing interest.

Well, not so good news for me. 3 points:

1) I’ve now discovered that WP 4.2 requires the updated “Press This” [PT] tool, which I don’t like as much as the earlier version. Latest version:
1) doesn’t give you the option to edit post from the PT dialogue box. You have to go back into WP/Posts to make any changes. I always add the author and the date at the top of each article, plus a comment before the end backlink. I have to make sure I don’t forget to do this before publishing. Bit of a nuisance.
2) comes already italicised. Have to backspace to get it to normal font.

2) Hostgator made the changes, which took a bit of sorting out (they actually had to see the error in action to fully understand what was happening). This also means that for any new website I create, I will have to contact Hostgator and go thru the whole process each time. Bit of mucking around.

3) So now, I have 3 websites updated to WP 4.2, consequently having to use the updated PT tool (not happy). I also have 2 websites with WP 4.1 and previous version of PT. I have to make the decision whether to stay with WP 4.1 or update to WP 4.2 and use newer version of PT.

I DO WISH developers would not make new versions ‘better’ … it invariably ends up not being ‘better’. This is not a case of not liking change; it means it now takes me longer to post articles.

I did try the previous workaround of copying/pasting from V1 of PT to V2 but that didn’t work. The code for the latest version is completely different – much longer.

Oh well, the ‘joys’ of modern technology.

Not the result I was looking for, but seems I’ll just have to get used to it. Haven’t made up my mind about updating my last 2 websites to 4.2.

Hope this helps – sort of.

Cheers Niki