Can't Connect (WordPress 4.2.2)

You might be running into this issue. If not, consider turning on “Detailed debugging info” from the plugin’s settings and looking at the WordPress debug log for more information.

I tried my best to read through all of that post and it sounds like a similar issue, but I can’t get any different results.

Extreme Noob at all of this but here goes:

WordPress 4.2.2 with Crosspostr 0.8.3
I deleted my cookies and history and closed out of Chrome and reopen
Deleted cookies and tried Incognito
Deleted history/cookies and tried Firefox
Restarted computer.

I’ve been logged into Tumblr every attempt. i have multiple OAuth keys on tumblr that i’ve tried and still the same thing.

I deactivated all my plugins and nothing.

I click the “click here to connect” button and nothing happens and my posts tell me I’m not connected.

I don’t really understand the PHP stuff talked about at the end of the linked article. And the debugging sentence confuses me. I don’t see a Plugin Settlings section. But I enabled debugging on the WP Config.php but nothing shows up in the log.

I’m stuck and confused and new at all of this… haha

I’ll be traveling the next few days so I may not be able to respond right away. Thanks!

Oh got this when I tried “Tumblrizing everything”

[05-Jun-2015 05:18:35 UTC] PHP Notice: Undefined index: default_hostname in /srv/disk13/1573873/www/benjaminsws.me.pn/wp-content/plugins/tumblr-crosspostr/tumblr-crosspostr.php on line 1378

If you’re not able to connect to your Tumblr blog, then “Tumblrize Everything” won’t work (for obvious reasons). It sounds like you might need to point your host at the end of that other thread I linked. The solution to this problem seems to require a minor reconfiguration on the host’s part, because only some configurations cause the problem in the first place. The specifics of the configuration is discussed here.

The gist is that you need to change or set your PHP’s session.save_path to a value where your webserver user can read/write to.

Again, if this is all Greek to you and you don’t understand what I’m talking about, you should ask your web hosting provider to set the PHP configuration variable for you. They should know what this means. (And if they don’t, change hosting providers!)

It is all Greek, but I checked my with my webhost and I can’t edit my php.ini so I sent a request to them to do so (citing this forum).

They can’t because they’re a free hosting site so…
It’s kind of hard to beat that price, but I guess this means no connecting to Tumblr.

Any other ideas are gladly welcome, but I won’t hold my breath. Thank you SOOOOO much for helping.

Ben

Well, session.save_path is a runtime configuration variable, so it may be possible to change it in your own PHP scripts.

You might try adding a snippet like this to your theme’s functions.php file:

function fix_cant_connect_wordpress_422 () {
    session_save_path('/path/to/your/special/sessions/directory/here');
}
add_action('muplugins_loaded', 'fix_cant_connect_wordpress_422');

Of course, change /path/to/your/special/sessions/directory/here to whatever directory your webserver is able to read/write PHP sessions to. (Again, ask your web host what that would be if this is unfamiliar to you.)