confuzzledduck

No problem. Thank you for reporting it! ??

It looks like posts were getting transmitted, but in some cases with the wrong post status so that they weren’t showing up in the admin of the receiving site (or on the site itself). They probably are in the database.

I’ve added a fix for this, so if you can give it a try (download again from the link above) hopefully that will have nailed it!

Let me know how you get on.

I’ve taken a look and made a couple of changes to category handling. I wonder if you wouldn’t mind downloading and installing the plugin from this file: https://github.com/confuzzledduck/syndicate-out/archive/master.zip. Then let me know if that’s fixed the problem for you. If it does I’ll push the change to the WordPress repo.

Thanks again for your help!

That doesn’t sound at all right. Thanks for letting me know and giving such a detailed description of your setup — very helpful ??

I’ll take a look, see what I can find, and get back to you.

Two issues here: the first I think should be solved with the latest version — 0.8.2.1 — available from the WP site. Give it a try and let me know how you get on ??

The second is something which the plugin currently can’t do. Assuming the 0.8 bug is now fixed I should be able to start looking at adding functionality again, and attachments is something I’d very much like to do.

I’m not sure about wp.com, however I would advise you to check out the latest version of the plugin which I just pushed to the WP repo and see if that fixes the problem. I think it might.

If not, I’ll take a look at how WP.com works and try to see if there’s something special for blogs hosted over there.

I *think* I’ve solved this problem… finally! It seems it was all to do with taxonomies and post statuses.

I’ve pushed an update to the plugin – 0.8.2.1 – which I hope will address the problem. Give it a whirl and let me know how you get on.

Much obliged.

Is this a problem for all HTML in the source blog post (ie. including strong and em tags), or only for certain HTML tags?

Also, what permissions does the user you’re posting on the remote blog with have (admin, contributor, etc.)?

I’ve just pushed a change to the master branch which I’m hoping will fix the taxonomy problems. If anyone gets a chance to try this version out on one of the blog pairs which was previously failing, I’d very much appreciate it. Disclaimer: please only test this if you know at least something about what you’re doing!

When swapping to this version DO NOT uninstall the plugin as this will delete the syndication configuration, just replace the directory in your plugins directory. If it works then that’s great. If not and you need to swap back (to 0.7 which is the release before the API change which doesn’t suffer from the taxonomy problems) then just drop the plugin files back over the top of the new ones and it should all work again!

Let me know how you get on.

sleepybrett, Terry: that’s an interesting one, I’ll have to see how that is possible. Thanks for letting me know.

brbaso: that’s very helpful. Thank you. I suspect your meta data didn’t get syndicated with that fix, although if you’re happy with it and it works then stick with it for now ??

Are you using custom post types, or just one of the default types (post, page, etc.)? Again it’s all taxonomy related and as I said before… they are a pain! I intend to look at a more robust handling of all the possible errors, and which ones can be safely ignored, in the next round of development and this is very helpful information.

Hi again Lode. I’m sorry you’re having problems with the plugin. As I have mentioned in the two other threads about this, if you could give me the “Authentication” and “Remote API” lines from the admin for the blogs which aren’t working, that would be a good start to working out what the problem might be.

As I also mentioned previously, you can download the 0.7 version of the plugin from the WordPress Plugin Repository which should still work for you as it did before the upgrade.

remopini: That’s very useful, thank you. Taxonomies have always been a bit of a pain. It sounds like a blank term is getting transmitted for some reason. I should reasonably easily be able to catch that and weed them out. Now I’m working with the WP native API I’d like to add more intelligent taxonomy checking, but I’m slightly nervous of slowing the posting process down too much with lots of API calls. It’s a bit of a balancing act!

hotinthenews: In order to implement new functionality I had to transfer from the old MoveableType API to the native WordPress API. There’s no reason the old version of the plugin won’t still work for you if it did previously, you can download it from the plugin repo. I would be interested to know what the admin of the 0.8 version says for “Authentication” and “Remote API” for the blogs which are no longer working say for you.

Thanks for looking into it. I’ll have a play around with the post types and taxonomies and see if I can come up with a fix for the next release.

I think these are two separate issues.

Re. the first point about saved settings: I’m developing with 3.5.1 and can’t reproduce this problem. I am about to push a new release of the plugin which makes some changes to the settings system, however, so I’d advise you to update to 0.8 once it’s available and then get back to me if there’s still a problem.

Re. the second point about missing posts: since WP 3.4 the XMLRPC has implemented a much better set of calls for posting (ie. real WP-specific ones), and in version 0.8 I have moved to using these. I would suggest you update the plugin once it’s available and try again. If there’s still a problem I can investigate further.

That’s interesting. Are you trying to save a post which has previously been sent to a remote blog, or a new post?