Here’s my problem: The “pings” post almost as their own little separate blog with their own separate feed (at mysite.com/pingfm). I really want them to just be part of the main blog. I’ve been doing weekly digests of the pings to the main blog to make sure readers see them but its an inelegant solution. I’m not worried about the RSS end, I can combine the ping feed into the normal blog feed with pipes and feedburner, but I would really like all of those miniblog posts (pings, to use the verbiage of the plugin) to display as if they are real posts and part of the main blog. This way they’d not only show in all blog views (search, archive, categories, etc) but also be right alongside the “real” blog posts.

In an ideal world, someone can advise me how to muck with the plugin so that it posts what it gets from Ping.fm as WordPress posts instead if pings.

However, if that is impossible, if there is some way to fake it on the theme end and just have the pings display within the normal blog as if they were posts (even if they are still pings) I would accept that as a solution.

(If someone’s already written up a tutorial on this, my apologies, I’ve Googled to no avail.)

Thanks for your help in advance!

I’m trying to find a plugin that’ll allow me to send my published posts to ping.fm either directly or via my Feedburner feed. I’ve had a quick look in the repository and can’t find something along those lines that hasn’t been left to waste and probably won’t work with 3.X.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Robert

When I enter my username and password in PING.FM I get the following error message:

You attempted to login with the username ‘admin’ on WordPress.com. If you were trying to access your self hosted www.remarpro.com blog, try yourdomain.com/wp-admin/. If you can’t remember your WordPress.com username, you can reset your password by providing your email address. If you have any questions please contact support.

I just don’t understand what it means when it says “try yourdomain.com/wp-admin/”. If I enter this info into the ‘USERNAME’ field on the Ping.FM website, nothing happens.

If I try to include WordPress in my Amplify profile I get a similar problem.

What am I doing wrong?

Should I persevere with Ping.fm and Amplify or is there a better way to post to my blog AND my social network pages simultaneously?

Should I wait until Hootsuite support self-hosted WordPress sites?

As always, any help at all would be v. gratefully received.

When I try the same in AMPLIFY I get

“Note: API keys are meant for application developers. If you are using a Ping.fm app that someone has created, it shouldn’t require you submit an API key. Since we’ve recently changed this process, some of the apps might not have been updated to meet new requirements.

If you are using an app that requires an API key, contact the developer, or visit the app’s website for an up-to-date version.”

Any word on an update?

You Shouldn’t Be Seeing This

This is an error message, and error messages suck.

That’s why you shouldn’t be seeing this one right now. On a most unfortunate note, we encountered an error while attempting to upgrade the old pings in your database.

Your data is safe, but you won’t be able to use the latest version of this plugin until the situation gets sorted out.

If you want to be really helpful, click the button below to report the problem. Your email address will be included in the report, but we’ll only use it to get in touch with you so that we can help you fix whatever it is that’s causing this plugin to puke.

Alright: less talk, more click. Get on it!

Nice, mmh? Well, uninstalling and even deleting all files and re-installing from scratch (even after manually deleting all posts on the Ping.fm category) has no effect. I’m assuming something got written somewhere (the options are serialized and not editable from the backend) to make sure this message is always shown.

I went into the database, looked up under the table wp-options, searched for pingfm_options, and where there was:

s:13:”upgrade_error”;b:1;

I changed it to

s:13:”upgrade_error”;b:0;

This allowed the upgrade attempt to be run once again. However, it gives precisely the same error

So I’ve deleted pingfm_options, the “Ping.fm” category, and dumped the wp_pingfm table for good measure; then deleted the plugin and reinstalled it from scratch (*sigh*).

No luck. Even when going with all that trouble, it still fails with:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_create_category() in /home/gwyneth/gwynethllewelyn.net/wp-content/plugins/pingfm-custom-url-status-updates/classes/PingFmCustomUrlUtils.php on line 61

Aha! Forums to the rescue!

So I went to that file and on line 61 just commented out

/* $this->default_category =  wp_create_category('Ping.fm'); */

and replaced with:

if(!($this->default_category = is_term("Ping.fm", "category"))){
          $args = array('description' => "Ping.fm", 'parent' => "0");
          $this->default_category = wp_insert_term("Ping.fm", "category", $args
        }

Note that is_term is supposed to be deprecated and to be replaced by term_exists. Hopefully Matt Jacob reads this and changes his code accordingly

The problem is that if my post has pictures in it, the WordPress tag doesn’t get stripped (because it’s not html) or interpreted properly (because it’s not html) by the time it gets to whatever site ping.fm forwards it to. So the post ends up with things like this in it:

I tried reporting the problem to pingpress and ping.fm, but they seem to be saying it’s WordPress’ fault for not using HTML.

Is there anything that can be done about this?