douglerner

My activate plugins are:

1. Akismet – for spam protection.

2. Auto-hyperlink URLs – if this is not installed, ordinary URLs I entered were not getting hyperlinked.

3. Jetpack – mainly for the subscriber and email notification features.

4. Jquery archive list widget – a nicer, collapsible archive widget.

5. Postie – needed for post via email. It is not doing URL conversion.

6. Ultimate tag cloud widget – it is a nicer, smaller font tag cloud than the default.

7. WordPress importer – I used it to import from wordpress.com but I guess it’s not doing anything now.

That’s all.

I have not tried deactivating them, but I can try.

Thanks,

doug

It’s a shame though, because the query URL is the least user friendly format.

doug

Arie,

It must have been a caching thing with Chrome. I noticed the query URL was not redirecting from within Safari. Then I cleared my Chrome cache and it wasn’t redirecting either.

So I think I’ll not fiddle with the permalinks right now.

It does seem to be a permalink bug, wouldn’t you say?

Thanks again.

doug

Agh!!!!

It started redirecting again. This time to a general 404 error.

Why?

doug

I see.

The easiest thing to test seemed to be the permalink settings. So I have tried this:

1. I changed to the “default permalink” setting (first radio button). That works! The author links are now the query URL format with no redirection and the page shows correctly!

2. I then tried with my preferred option, the 2nd radio button: https://douglerner.net/2012/06/15/sample-post/. That’s a much nicer format. But unfortunately the same problem occurs again.

So it looks like a problem with the permalink options, wouldn’t you say?

Anyway, since choosing the first option works I will just use that for now.

Thanks very much!

doug

p.s. Would I call this “resolved”? I’m not sure. It’s a work-around, but exposes a different bug.

Also, if you mean the rewrite rule for the query URL, that won’t help because the author links on the web page itself look like https://douglerner.net/author/Doug%20Lerner/ – which is different from both the Jetpack notification author URL (the query URL) and the URL the query URL gets redirected to:

1. On the blog page: https://douglerner.net/author/Doug%20Lerner/ (bad URL)

2. In the Jetpack notification: https://mydomain.net/?author=1 (gets redirected to https://mydomain.net/author/DougLerner/ which is also a bad URL.

doug

I’ve never edited WP code before. This would be in the actual WP code itself?

I was running 3.3.x until yesterday (it was broken then) and I upgraded to 3.4 today, and it’s still broken.

Won’t modifying the code interfere with upgrades?

Is this a general WP bug?

How would my own rewrite rule have gotten changed?

Thanks,

doug

Hi, Christine.

The URL is https://douglerner.net.

Most of the content is imported from wordpress.com except for a few test posts I made the last few days.

Until this morning I was running the twenty eleven theme. But somebody said it looked like the problem was that the author was not being credited with the posts. That appeared to be just a twenty eleven theme problem, so I just switched to another theme, and it is showing the authors name (me) by each post now. So that wasn’t the issue.

Thanks very much!

doug

Unfortunately not. If I enter it by query string:

https://mydomain.net/?author=1

all it does is redirect to that URL in my post above, which doesn’t seem to exist.

doug

In this case just the link goes into the HTML mails, which is the safest as you point out. And with auto-embed it displays nicely in WP itself.

Now if only the notifications themselves looked nice. They are sort of threadbare, don’t you think?

Thanks,

doug

Matty,

There were two ways I was adding the videos:

(1) Using the WordPress editor and just entering the YouTube URL. I was not using shortcode. I was depending on the In WordPress > Settings > Media setting to auto-embed. This apparently renders it as embed but leaves the URL alone. This looks to be safe with Subscribe2.

(2) The problem was I usually post via email. I have been using Postie for this. But what Postie was doing was actually converting the simple YouTube URL to embed tags before posting. That was what was causing the problem with Subscribe2.

By disabling that in Postie as described in my post just above, Postie just posts the URL itself. Then WordPress renders it as embedded by leaves the internal data alone. And Subscribe2 just mails out the URL. And all is right in the world.

Thanks for checking!

I need to go by this plugin now because I want public users also to get HTML mail.

Thanks,

doug

OK. Here is the “safest” combination:

1. In WordPress > Settings > Media make sure Auto-Embeds is checked. This doesn’t change the content of the saved message (which contains just a YouTube link) but when displaying it displays as an embedded YouTube.

2. In Postie > Settings > Messages > Advanced Options make sure that Automatically convert URLs to links is turned off. If on, it converts YouTube URLS to embed tags. We don’t need this because WordPress itself will display it as embedded if (1) is checked.

With the above settings, posts via the web or via email will show the YouTube as embedded video. But Subscribe2 will just send out the YouTube link in notifications.

doug

Matty,

Well, it’s not a perfect solution. While the embed tag goes out and embeds in Mail.app on the Mac, it doesn’t in Gmail.

So the notification that goes out from Subscribe2 just ends up with nothing at all where the embed was in Gmail (and also Mailplane). I imagine it’s a problem in some other Mail clients as well.

If embedded videos are a problem in many mail clients, it seems the safest thing would be to send just the links.

Of course one way to achieve that is, as you said, to make sure that just links get posted. But it’s a shame to do that when the blog itself can look nice with embedded video.

There must be a combination of Postie and WordPress settings which work.

頑張ります。

doug

Yes, that’s a possible solution.

Just turn off auto-embed in the Media settings.

Then if you either:

(1) Use the embed tags manually or

(2) Use Postie to post as HTML mail with just the YouTube link (easiest),

the post shows up in the web as an embedded video and the Subscriber2 notification which goes out sends the video so it appears embedded. At least in Mac Mail. I haven’t tested in other clients.

doug

Ooh. I just noticed something.

For the posts I made via Postie, they were posted with embed tags. Those:

(1) Show up as embedded videos at the blog and;

(2) Show up as embedded videos in the email notifications! At least in Mail.app on my Mac it does.

Something to work with here.

doug