johanvandemerwe

The plugin does not work with the Hypercache plugin.

I had the same problem. In my case it was the amount of memory remaining on the WordPress admin. To check this you can install the plugin: WP System Health. It will say that it has been updated for 2 years, but it will run fine on the latest WordPress. It will show you on the dashboard how much you have on you memory limit (32Mb/64Mb or something else). In my case it was only 32Mb of which 97% was already used by WP and plugins. Increasing this memory to 64Mb (maybe you need support from your provider to get this done), the Windows Live Writer problem described was gone. Apparently getting pages with XML-RPC is much more demanding than posts (where I didn’t had a problem).

The way I got rid of the verify link (with a free account of Shrink the Web):

– in the file thumbnail.inc.php, go the line that says:

$imagetag = sprintf('<div class="noshrink"><script type="text/javascript">stw_pagepix("%s", "%s", "%s");
            </script></div>', $url, $stwaccesskeyid, $stwsize);

replace this with:

$imagetag = sprintf('<script type="text/javascript">stw_pagepix("%s", "%s", "%s");
            jQuery(\'.stwpvplink\').removeAttr(\'onmousedown\')</script>', $url, $stwaccesskeyid, $stwsize);

Not very chique, but effective.

I had the same problem. But the solution was not in the plugins. I exported the database with PHPmyadmin, because I wanted to make a duplicate of all the tables for another wordpress installation. I modified the file with PSPAD Editor, but the codepage in the editor was not the same as of the data (UTF-8 versus ANSI). And there was the problem like described above. After modifying it again in the right codepage (UTF-8 in my case) and executing the sql again in PHPMyadmin, the error was gone.