mtilly

MyCurator doesn’t actually save the videos to your site, it embeds them in an ‘iframe’ which means the video is still served from its original web page such as Youtube (which is good because it would be a lot of overhead for your server if you stored them). That means if the video disappears, it’s probably down/gone on YouTube or wherever it came from. You might click on the original article link to see if the page is still there.

We did find a problem in the plugin where the multi function does not work in some instances. We have made a fix using a better way of gathering the multi articles into the post you are editing. We are planning a release of a new version this weekend, which will have the fix for the multi curation function.

I’m sorry you had to spend so much time finding out that it doesn’t work. You should see the update notice in your plugins menu item when we release it, as well as on our blog.

The link didn’t work, maybe you could post another or send it to us using the Contact Us page on our site?

Typically, problems with the training page show up when you are using caching software. You need to make sure that the training page is kept out of your cache.

If that is not the problem here, could you send a screen picture of your training page that shows some articles?

I think you are using a WordPress version older than 3.3. If you upgrade to 3.3 or newer this problem should go away.

As a work around, while waiting for your hosting company to respond, you can do the following:

1. Right click on your Source It (or Get It) bookmark and choose Edit.
2. Click on the URL field and scroll to the end until you find (l.href)
3. Replace it with (l.host+l.pathname)
4. Click Save

After working offline, we found that the host had implemented extra security for this site. That security was blocking the Source It tool from starting up.

If you get a 404 error on Source It or Get It, then check with your host and send them the url at the top of the little window. They should be able to tell why they are blocking that url from completing.

In checking out the link you attached, I do see that it goes to your 404 page. It should bring up the login screen for someone who is not logged in. If I strip off everything after the sourceit.php (the query arguments) I do get to the login screen as expected.

When I used the full url in my browser, I saw an error message show up briefly before the 404 page. When I used the shorter URL I was able to capture the error message:

Warning: Missing argument 2 for wpdb::prepare(), called in /home/thomwarp/public_html/trendymax.com/wp-content/themes/gonzo/includes/widget_areas.php on line 154 and defined in /home/thomwarp/public_html/trendymax.com/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 990

This looks like the same error message I see briefly with the full URL.

I think your theme is capturing the incoming call to Source It and redirecting it to the 404 Not Found page. It could also be happening with some redirects in your .htaccess file, or maybe a security plugin that captures ‘unknown’ calls or calls directly to wp-content pages.

If you need help with exploring this, please contact us through the Contact Us menu item on our site

Go to the Links menu in the dashboard and choose Source Quick Add. You can add in any sources through copy and paste this way. In the meantime we will look into the source it problem.

You need to create a Topic for the Get It bookmarklet to save the full text and images. The keywords won’t matter and you don’t need to add any sources.

You can expand the Topic keywords later and add sources to have MyCurator find articles for you.

And now it has been removed! What is going on!

MyCurator doesn’t really do anything with your own posts, it has its own post types for training and its own database files. White screens could be caused by your host responding slowly. You could try the following:

1 – See if it continues to happen whenever you publish or delete your own posts. You might try a few posts separated by some amount of time. This should tell you whether the host is responding slowly

2- If it continues to happen, deactivate MyCurator. You won’t lose any of your work so far as it stores everything separately.

3 – Try publishing and deleting and see if it works now. If it does, then reactivate MyCurator and see if the problem comes back.

We added a bookmarklet called Get It in version 1.2.0 to do this. Go to the Get It menu item under MyCurator. You just drag the bookmarklet to your browser bar.

The Get It tool creates an entry in your training page with the title, excerpt and image if found. When you curate one of the posts in the editor you will have full access to the article text and pictures from the website.

After working offline, we determined this was related to the port to a new site. Some WordPress core files dealing with Taxonomy needed to be fixed.

Another reason for training tags not working is if you are using a caching plugin. Make sure that your training page is kept out of the cached pages, especially with WP Super Cache.

I can see where the posts using a link to the readable page have tried to display the full readable page. For that to happen, your theme is somehow treating the home page posts as a single post page. My guess is that your home page is not a ‘blog’ or ‘posts’ type page but an actual single page – probably set as a static front page in the Reading section of Settings.

I noticed that you have since switched to the original links. This will get rid of the problem of the full readable page trying to display, as you’ve noticed. As you add more posts, those with the readable page should fall off your home page.

It does seem that the excerpt of text is still not formatting well into the theme. You could change the MyCurator Option “Excerpt Length in Words” to a smaller number of words to get the excerpt to fit with your theme.