Xpost
The Xpost (speak it: crosspost) plugin allows you to crosspost your posts to other WordPress blogs or Community Server blogs via XML-RPC. Features include:
- The plugin keeps track of which post has been crossposted to which blog and can update the crossposted posts when changing the original posts.
- If you save a draft this will be crossposted as draft. If you publish the draft you can publish it also on the crossposted blogs.
- If protect a post with a password the crossposted posts will also be protected by a password.
- You can select the categories which should be used for the crosspost whereby this categories will be fetched from the blog you crosspost to.
- Crossposting will crosspost of course the title and text of the post, but also the excerpt, tags, the scheduled date for publishing and whether to allow comments and ping backs.
- Crossposting of comments (since version 1.1.0).
Please note that you have to install Xpost on all blogs you want to crosspost comments to. You have also to activate posting via XML-RPC in all these blogs.
Once you approve a comment in any of the blogs which are selected for crossposting comments it will be posted to all of these blogs. It will be immediatly approved in all these blogs.
Please note that the support for crossposting to Community Server blogs is untested and may not include all of the features.
Installation
Make sure your webserver runs PHP version 5.2 or later. This plugin may not work with earlier versions.
- Upload the “xpost” folder to the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory
- Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress
- Goto “Settings”, then “Xpost” and add your WordPress blogs.
- That’s it! When editing or creating a post you will find a Xpost widget in the sidebar where you can select the blogs to crosspost to and the categories.
Please note that you have to activate posting via XML-RPC for the blogs you want to crosspost to. You can activate XML-RPC if you goto ‘Settings’ and then ‘Writing’ in the admin interface of each of those blogs.
If you upgrade from an earlier version, make sure you deactivate the plugin first and reactivate it afterwards. This is needed, because the database format may change and this will only be updated on reactivation.
If you want to crosspost comments you have to install the Xpost plugin on all WordPress installation the comments should get crossposted to and you have to activate posting via XML-RPC for all theses installations.
Frequently Asked Questions
How exactly does the crossposting of the comments work?
There are two different cases: 1. A comment is posted and approved in the blog with the original post. In this case it is stored in the database to which blogs the post was crossposted. The Xpost plugin will then transmit the comment via XML-RPC to these blogs. 2. A comment is posted and approved in a blog as response to a crosspost. In this case the Xpost plugin has stored the address of the blog containing the orginal post together with the crosspost. The comment will then be transmitted via XML-RPC to the original blog. The Xpost plugin in the original blog know to which other blogs the comment has to be posted and does so via XML-RPC.
I want to contribute. How can I do this?
The plugin is hosted on github.com. You may create a clone of the repository, make your changes and request a merge afterwards.
Changelog
Version 1.2.1
- Added a small plugin for the target blogs to display whether a post was crossposted from somewhere else. (This will only be displayed for newly crossposted posts. For posts crossposted with earlier version it will always say the post has not been crossposted.)
- Fixed duplication of meta data of crossposted posts on an update.
- Fixed error message which occured when deleting blogs.
Version 1.2.0
- Adding (untested) support for crossposting to Community Server blogs. Thanks to Daniel Cohen!
- Ability to backdate posts when crossposting.
- Hopefully the timezone confusion is fixed. Finally.
- Fixed version number in admin panel.
- Minor issues.
Version 1.1.1
- Hopefully fixed bug with posts showing “missed schedule” instead of getting published.
- WordPress multi-user compatibility, but untested. Included just a patch suggestion by Norbert Mayer-Wittmann (see comments below).
Version 1.1.0
- New feature: Crossposting of comments.
- Fixed version number which was still wrongly displayed as 1.0.
Version 1.0.4
- Fixed bug: Backslashes were added in front of quotes in crossposts.
- Fixed bug: Media uploaded with the WordPress mediauploader was not shown in crossposts.
Version 1.0.3
- Plugin is now compatible to PHP version older than PHP 5.3.0.
- Fixed bug: Categories did not get loaded when creating a new post.
Version 1.0.2
- Improved installation instructions.
Version 1.0.1
- Added domain to gettext calls allowing translation.
- Added pot file for translation.
- Added German translation.
- Added additional license information.
Version 1.0
- Initial release.
Information
| WordPress Version: | 2.9–3.0.1 |
| License: | GNU General Public License 2 |
| git repository on github.com: | http://www.github.com/jgosmann/xpost |
| Developed with: | Eclipse, XAMPP and Firefox under Mac OS X Leopard in PHP, HTML and JavaScript |
Downloads
| Package Information | Version | Download | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xpost plugin | 1.2.1 | xpost.1.2.1.zip | 36 KiB |
| Xpost plugin | 1.2.0 | xpost.1.2.0.zip | 34 KiB |
| Xpost plugin | 1.1.1 | xpost.1.1.1.zip | 32 KiB |
| Xpost plugin | 1.1.0 | xpost.1.1.0.zip | 31 KiB |
| Xpost plugin | 1.0.4 | xpost.1.0.4.zip | 26 KiB |
| Xpost plugin | 1.0.3 | xpost.1.0.3.zip | 26 KiB |
| Xpost plugin | 1.0.2 | xpost.1.0.2.zip | 25 KiB |
| Xpost plugin | 1.0.1 | xpost.1.0.1.zip | 25 KiB |
| Xpost plugin | 1.0 | xpost.1.0.zip | 12 KiB |
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October 18th, 2009 at 15:47
I keep getting this error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method DateTime::getTimestamp() in /home/patclev6/public_html/justice/wp-content/plugins/xpost/xpost_post.php on line 95
October 18th, 2009 at 22:12
Can you tell me which version of PHP you are using?
October 19th, 2009 at 14:27
PHP version 5.2.9
October 19th, 2009 at 16:36
I checked this: The Xpost plugin needs PHP in the version 5.3.0 or higher (but 5.3.0 is the latest version at the moment).
The easiest way to solve the problem would be probably to update your PHP installation.
If that is not possible there is a entry in the PHP manual concerning the newly introduced function in PHP 5.3.0 needed by Xpost. At this page is comment proposing an alternative function for PHP version older than 5.3.0. You could hack Xpost to use this license (but this would require some minor programming skills).
Last option would be, that I replace that function by myself. But I do not need the compatibility for the older PHP version. Therefore I do not have that much motivation to do this. Especially because my free time is very limited at the moment and it could take several weeks if I do it.
October 20th, 2009 at 15:57
Hi – this is a really useful extension for WordPress – many thanks!
The fix you need is in xpost_post.php
/* Fixed the call to getTimestamp as no available in php getTimestamp() ); */
$postData['dateCreated'] = new IXR_Date( mktime($date->hour, $date->minute, $date->second, $date->month, $date->day, $date->year) );
There is one other small error I would appreciate help on.
When creating a new post to a single other blog, the XPost widget does not display the categories from the other blog. After posting and doing a post update, the categories are displayed fine.
October 24th, 2009 at 20:14
I might include the proposed fix with the next version of the plugin (whenever it will come).
The problem with the categories could be reproduced by me, however it occured not while testing. I do not know what causes this problem, yet. As said before I have not much free time at the moment, but I will try my best to fix this soon.
October 26th, 2009 at 15:55
Sometimes things happen sooner as you think: I’ve released today a new Xpost version. It introduces compatibility with PHP versions older than 5.3.0 (however the proposed fix did not work, but I found another fix).
The categories get know also loaded if you create a new post.
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:56
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November 10th, 2009 at 23:53
Hi,
I tried testing the xpost plugin and the image reference in my post broke. Image was loaded into the source wordpress blog through the media uploader. Was translated into an empty src in the cross post. Other than that it appears to do everything I need.
November 11th, 2009 at 11:54
I do not use the WordPress media uploader and completely forgot about it. However I do not really know if it is even possible to make it compatible to crossposting. I think there is no possibility to transfer the uploaded media to another WordPress blog (but I have to check this in the documentation). Maybe it is possible to change the links to the media in a way that they are pointing to the original blog.
November 11th, 2009 at 15:33
I’m finding that both single and double quotes in markup in my posts are being escaped breaking links and img tags. for example a href=” becomes a href=\”a
Any advice.
November 16th, 2009 at 10:12
I just made another bugfix release. The quotes shouldn’t be escaped any longer and images uploaded through the media uploader should be also shown in the crosspost.
If find more bugs, please post them to!
November 25th, 2009 at 20:52
I have MU and wanted to crosspost inside my own MU site. But when I activate the plugin, it comes up with a blank screen. Is there something that I am doing wrong?
November 25th, 2009 at 21:51
What exactly did you do? Just copied the plugin to the plugin folder and clicked “activate” at the WordPress plugin page? And then you got a totally empty page? Or were the WordPress menus still visible?
November 26th, 2009 at 00:22
Entire blog ( frontend and backend ) has the white screen of death. When I activate it, this is the link I get:
mysite.com/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=xpost%2Fxpost.php&plugin_status=inactive&paged=1&_wpnonce=1b97e3ada1
I added the plugin with Filezilla, went to the plugins page, found it, the second I clicked onto it I got the link above and just a white screen. Could this be an MU compatibility issue? Should I check other plugins?
November 26th, 2009 at 00:33
Tried with another MU that was 2.8.5 I believe and got this message when I tried to activate it:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_get_current_user() in /home/juuble/public_html/webtechads/wp-includes/capabilities.php on line 920
For the blog I talked about in the last comment, it was MU 2.8.6. Just some information to help out. The 2.8.5 version had no plugins added other than wp-sifr and wp-contact.
November 26th, 2009 at 09:08
Thanks for the further information. That might be helpful tracking down the problem.
It might be a MU compatibility issue. The error message in the second try also suggests that it has to do something with users. But I am not sure at the moment.
I will investigate this problem soon.
November 30th, 2009 at 16:00
It is definitely a problem with MU. Therefore Xpost is not compatible to MU and I am not planning to change this in the near future. To me it seems not trivial to add MU support.
December 7th, 2009 at 16:36
I assume this plugin won’t cross-post comments from the various locations of a cross-posted blog post right? So you’d get different threads of conversation on each of the copies of the blog post. Is copying the comments between copies a feature you plan to add?
December 7th, 2009 at 17:32
You are right. You will get different threads of conversation.
But it is a nice idea. I might try to implement this in the future. However I cannot tell when. It will definitely not before next February.
December 11th, 2009 at 18:47
Hi,
I’ve encountered another issue. The xpost doesn’t appear to handle time offsets from UTC correctly for knowing when to publish the post unless both the source and target blogs are set to UTC-0.
Our source blog was set to UTC-5 and the source UTC-0 and the posts appeared to be shifted 5 hours. I changed the source to UTC-5 and the posts still appeared to be shifted by 5 hours. I set both blogs to UTC-0 and the posts publish as soon as they are x-posted rather than being scheduled for 5 hours.
Anyone else experienced this?
December 14th, 2009 at 13:47
Are you sure that you are using the newest Xpost version 1.0.4? From version 1.0.2 to 1.0.3 some code responsible for the publishing date has changed to make it compatible to older PHP versions.
I tested the problem described myself, but could not reproduce the problem. If I create a post in a blog set to UTC-5 scheduled for let’s say 7:00 and crosspost it to a blog set to UTC-0 it will be scheduled for 12:00 in this blog. Therefore they will published at the same time and that is the behavior I expect.
Also post get scheduled for the same time when crossposting.
December 16th, 2009 at 21:46
I am using Xpost version 1.0.4 with WordPress version 2.8.6 with PHP version 5.2.8. I’ve activated the plugin with no problem but when I try to put in the settings for the blog, I get “XML-RPC request returned no blogs”. I have the XML-RPC enabled in the “Writing” settings, so I’m not sure what’s wrong. Any ideas?
December 21st, 2009 at 14:45
I’m sorry for the late answer. However, I do not have good ideas what the problem could be. Did you enable the XML-RPC in the blog you want to post to? (or in the blog you are posting from which would be wrong?)
Probably you have already double checked the URL you entered, haven’t you?
January 11th, 2010 at 14:44
Hi, just like to say what an excellent plugin…something I’ve been wanting for ages so thanks! My question is, how do I xpost a sticky post? I know xmlrpc now supports it but I’m not sure of the code I’d need to put in the xpost_post.php file. Any ideas would be gratefully received. Thanks again.
January 12th, 2010 at 07:01
I think, at the moment it is not possible to xpost a sticky post. I didn’t even know that WordPress supports sticky posts. If xmlrpc supports it, it should be not big deal to implement. Could you point me to some documentation of that xmlrpc support?
January 12th, 2010 at 13:46
In response to your questions on Dec 21st, yes I have enabled xml-rpc on both blogs and have double-checked the URL that was entered. I’m not really sure why it’s not working. Could it be a setting in the install of PHP itself?
January 13th, 2010 at 13:43
I do not think that it is a setting in the install of PHP. But I have really no idea what the problem is at the moment. Some debug information like the data transmitted from the and to the blogs would be helpful. But it is not that easy to provide this data.
January 14th, 2010 at 16:30
Hi,
We’re finding that posts initially cross posted as draft sometimes don’t switch to published in the cross post when the original is published. We’re using 1.0.4. Updating the original invariably clears this up but we’re publishing posts in advance so sometimes don’t catch this until after the date.
January 14th, 2010 at 18:03
I did some research on this and it might be a bug in wordpress itself. When I tried to schedule crossposts in my testing environment they also did not get published. In the article overview WordPress said then “missed schedule”. I do not really know why this only occured with the crosspost itself, but not the original post (and I had both blogs at the same server with WordPress 2.8). However this seems to be a known problem and a workaround (which worked for me) is described at http://www.newbloghelp.com/wordpress/wordpress-missed-schedule-future-posts-fix
There exists also a plugin fixing this problem which I have not tried: http://blog.5ubliminal.com/posts/missed-schedule-future-posts-scheduled-mias-wordpress-plugin/
Afterwards I tried it also with WordPress 2.9.1 and had no problems with this version.
Therefore you might want to check your WordPress version and whether it says “missed schedule” for the unpublished post.
February 10th, 2010 at 03:44
I just installed Xpost by using the installer within WordPress. However, when I look at your site here, you say you’re on version 1.04. Which version is the right one?
February 10th, 2010 at 22:04
Oops, I just noticed that I always forgot to change the version number in xpost.php which is the version number displayed in the admin interface. However, readme.txt will contain the correct version number.
Thank you for the notice, I hope I remember to fix this in the next version.
February 18th, 2010 at 17:42
hello, I have xpost installed on two WPs and it worked for awhile then i started getting this message – Now I did update the user info for the contributing blog so it seems something happened in the process.
XML-RPC connection to the blog failed: Sorry, you are not allowed to publish posts on this blog.
February 18th, 2010 at 21:38
Have you checked the username and password you entered in the Xpost settings for the blogs you are crossposting to? The error messages suggests that these are wrong and therefore the plugin cannot login.
Other reasons for the error, I can think of, are:
1. The user set in the Xpost settings for the blog you are crossposting to does not have the permissions to create posts.
2. Posting via XML-RPC has been disabled.
You should check these things. If that does not help some more information would be useful. At the moment I do not fully understand what you did. Did you update the user info of the contributing blog after the plugin stopped working? Or have you updated the user info and then it stopped working? If the later, was it immediatly oder after a while?
When do you get the error message? When creating a new post? Or when updating an existing post?
btw: I am now working on a new version which is also able to crosspost comments. (However, there might be some limitations to this feature.)
February 19th, 2010 at 00:41
hey thanks for the quick response.. this plugin rocks!!
Yes you were right, I had the two contributers set as “contributers” when I changed their role to author it worked! thanks again
February 22nd, 2010 at 13:39
@Chris (comment 19): Good news for you. I added a feature to crosspost comments in version 1.1.0 of the plugin. Have fun with it!
March 10th, 2010 at 19:07
Is there any kind of error indication when an xml-rpc cross post fails? We’re running into examples where a cross post doesn’t update and we can’t tell that that happened.
March 10th, 2010 at 20:05
There should be either a message at the top of the edit page or in the Xpost-Widget. I won’t have time to take a look into this for the next one and half weeks. But then I will see if I can locate a problem with the error messages.
It could help if you provide more information: WordPress and plugin version? Did the problem only occur when updating a post or also when cross posting it the first time? Do you use Quick Edit? (That might be a problem, in fact.)
March 30th, 2010 at 17:24
The option to add a comment to cross-posts doesn’t seem to be working. When I add a comment and save, it still shows a ’0′.
March 31st, 2010 at 15:12
Sorry, but that is not enough information to let me reproduce the problems. All variants of adding comments I have tried are working in my testing environment.
What WordPress version do you use? How are you adding the comment? Where exactly does it show a ’0′? Does the comment appear at least in the blog the comment is created in or is it in both blogs missing? Are you creating the comment in the original blog or in the blog you crossposted the comment to? That are some questions to which answers might be helpful.
April 10th, 2010 at 00:25
Hi, I am trying to test out Xpost for use on two blogs, but every time i schedule a post the primary account, where i wrote the post, works fine, but the other account, where i’m crossposting to, doesn’t publish. It doesn’t say “missed schedule” or anything. It says it’s scheduled for a time in the past. It works fine when I manually publish it on that account, but I don’t think I should have to do that every time i schedule a post.
Thanks!
April 11th, 2010 at 10:22
@Jeff: When do a scheduled crosspost, what says WordPress about the post in the blog you crossposted to? Does it then already say that it is scheduled for a time in the past? Does it show a wrong time?
Or seems everything to be ok and scheduled for the correct time and does not say it is scheduled for a time in the past until the scheduled time passed?
If the later is the case, I would assume, that it is not a bug in Xpost (because all data about the scheduling would be passed correctly), but a bug in WordPress (which somehow fails to publish the post at the given time).
Are you using the latest WordPress versions?
April 12th, 2010 at 21:31
The problem is actually more universal than just when scheduling a post. When I click publish on the primary blog, the secondary blog says it’s “Scheduled” for exactly the same time, but doesn’t publish. The same problem happens if I schedule a post. It misses the schedule, but doesn’t tell me. It simply says “scheduled” and a date that’s in the past.
I am using 2.9.2 on both wordpress blogs.
The reason that I am troubled is that I can schedule posts normally on both accounts.
Thanks for the reply!
April 13th, 2010 at 06:07
Pardon the double post, but I thought this might help.
I have tried to use the plugin on a different server and receive this error:
Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: datetime in …/plugins/xpost/xpost_post.php on line 100
Thanks.
April 13th, 2010 at 17:23
Ok, I will have a look into those problems, but I am not sure whether I can do something about them. Moreover, it may take some time, because the semester just began again and my workload the next months will be very high.
May 8th, 2010 at 16:03
This is definitely cool — I just tested it out with WP 3 multi-user / network enabled + with PHP 5.0
The only problem I got was this here error message:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_get_current_user() in …/wp-includes/capabilities.php on line 1058
and so I patched that up with
require_once (ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/pluggable.php’);
(found it by searching the error message text)
You might want to talk w/ the 3.0 dev team about that issue (is it common problem for plugins?) or basically code around it(?)
Haven’t yet tried the schedule stuff etc. — but I like it already … So long twitter!
;D nmw
May 30th, 2010 at 13:23
Finally! Today I released a new Xpost version. I hope this will fix problems with scheduled crossposts which miss the scheduled date and do not get published. Nevertheless, if the problem is still not solved I will probably not be able to do anything about it, because it seems to be a WordPress error in that case.
I also included the change suggested in the last comment to make the plugin compatible to WP 3 multi-user. However, I have not tested whether it really works, because I am not really interested in compatibility with WP multiuser if it takes much effort.
@Jeff: The problem you described with “cannot instantiate non-existent class”. It seems that the PHP version on that server is to old. Xpost needs at least PHP 5.2.
June 17th, 2010 at 09:36
Hi blubb!
I’m using current versions of wp – I’m finding that my images are being stripped and I’m left with:
img src=http://skysoclear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/skysoclear.jpg alt= title=skysoclear width=560 height=460 class=alignnone size-full wp-image-721 /
No opening or closing brackets. Is there a fix?
Other than that- works awesome!
thanks, Ross
June 17th, 2010 at 09:38
oh, and no commas – img src=”http
Any help mucho appreciated!
June 21st, 2010 at 01:07
Hey there – having an interesting problem with Xpost. Though I’d post here to see if there might be any ideas.
As far as I can tell, Xpost is bombing when it tries to cross-post to other blogs (leaves me with a blank, white screen, instead of going back to the edit post page). It will not post in the mirrored blogs, but will post fine in the host blog. What really has me scratching my head is that I use Xpost in the other blogs which run the same versions of WordPress, Xpost, and all other plugins (but not the same PhP version) and they work fine, and can post into the Main Blog, just not visa verse.
WordPress v. 3.0
Xpost v. 1.1.1
Main Blog PhP v.4.3.9
Mirrored Blogs PhP v.5.?
The only thing I can think of that is different is that the Main Blog site is not sitting on the top level dir. of the server, where the other blogs are (had this issue with another plugin). But I freely admit, that’s a long shot.
Thanks!
July 17th, 2010 at 19:41
The last four weeks were very stressful for me, but it’s slowly getting better. Hopefully, I will find time to take a look into the issue with the stripped images before there will be another six week period in which I will not have the time to do this.
@Smudge: In fact, the PHP version of the Main Blog might be the problem. You stated that it is only 4.3, but you might need version 5.x. I do not know whether I use any function calls which are not supported by PHP 4.x.
July 17th, 2010 at 20:45
Thanks Blubb!
I kind of suspected that to be the case but wanted to get a second, more knowledgeable opinion before I wrote it off as a PhP thing. Alas, my current host on the PhP4 site has already stated he will not upgrade to PhP5 unless he has to change hardware so that’s kind of a dead end for me. But I will continue to use Xpost on the other blogs. There they seem to be working fine.
Thanks for the great plugin!
July 21st, 2010 at 20:53
Hi and thanks for a GREAT plugin
I am using my blog as a “What happens in my family” kind a blog…. – But I use Xpost to publish to my kids website, so the posts related to them checks in at their site too.
But the date does not match, when i publish a backdated post on the mainsite, the publish date (now) appears as publish date on the xposted site.
When i want postdate to be the 1. July on a post on mainsite I am writing 21. july, it changes to publishdate as 21. july when I “xpost” the post to the other site
Can I do anything about that? Could you tell me where and what i need to change in the code to be able to have the same postdate on both sites?
Kind regards
July 23rd, 2010 at 07:35
Per default the plugin always uses the current date (now) as publish date, except the entered publish date is a couple of minutes in the future. This implies that backdated posts will also use the current date as publish date. The corresponding if-condition should be in the xpost_post.php file.
I think I will integrate the ability to backdate posts in the next version of the plugin. However, it might take some months until I am able to release that version.
As stated above the publish date will only be set to the entered value if it is a few minutes in the future. That is because some had problems that the crossposted posts did not appear and showed a “missed schedule” status and I am hoping that this is a workaround for that problem (but I am not sure). My thought was, that WordPress might have a problem with posts scheduled too close to the current time.
August 2nd, 2010 at 14:31
I’m having the same problem as Smudge. When I click “publish”, a white screen appears. The post has been published, but not cross-posted.
WordPress 3.0.1 on both blogs.
Xpost 1.1.1 on both blogs
PHP 5.1.6 on both blogs.
(Both blogs are on the same machine, but each with their own instance of wordpress running.)
Many thanks –
Joel.
August 4th, 2010 at 16:03
Thank you!!!
is just what I needed!
JSR
August 19th, 2010 at 18:57
@Ross: I am not able to reproduce your problem. For me Images and other HTML tags are left intact. WordPress, PHP and plugin version might help with this. But it seems to me that the problem is not caused by the Xpost plugin alone.
@Mette: With the new version 1.2.0 it is possible crosspost to backdated posts.
@Joel: Probably the problem is the PHP version. I am using version 5.3 for testing, but it should work also with PHP version 5.2. However, version 5.1.x seems to be too old. Sorry for that.
September 1st, 2010 at 23:43
Hey blubb – Thanks so much for the great plugin! I use it on a lot of setups for my clients.
I’m having an issue, though, when trying to connect blogs that are WordPress MultiSite (aka WP 3.0+) it’s returning zero blogs. I’m not sure if this is a result of the member site lookup not working on the WordPress side, or what… I’m poking in your code, hoping to find an answer, but if you’ve got an idea, I would love to hear it
Also, if I figure out a code fix to make it work, I’ll let you know!
September 2nd, 2010 at 04:25
I’m travelling until October and will not be able to take a look into this for the time being. To debug this problem it would be really helpful to get the raw answer sent by the WordPress MultiSite blog. You are saying you are poking into my code which lets me suppose that you have some programming skill. I don’t know whether they are enough to write this raw answer to a file and send to me.
(if not I will try to reproduce this problem myself as soon as I find the time.)
September 15th, 2010 at 19:04
And there is a delay in Crossposting?
September 16th, 2010 at 20:11
There should no delay in crossposting.
September 20th, 2010 at 13:58
Hi,
getting the following error: Error: Error while inserting the blog “…..” (blog id: 0) into the database.
0 new blogs have successfully been added.
I have tried different version with the same result.
Any help will be apprecieted
October 5th, 2010 at 18:19
Habe mit PHP Version : 5.2.14 / 64Bit OS das Problem das die HTML Tags rausgefiltert werden
October 8th, 2010 at 16:52
The plugin works well, though I have a suggestion; It would be useful if the crossposting accounts could also define a default category to crosspost into, for when the crossposting is both automatic and not using the browser form for posting.
I tried setting this in the xpost_widget.php, but it didn’t take. I’m rather out of my depth in PHP.
November 3rd, 2010 at 16:33
Have installed Xpost 1.2.1 on serveal blogs and working ok in terms of posting. Does Xpost allow you to remove/delete a post – on the original posting blog, removed te post but ti remains on the other blogs.
November 4th, 2010 at 15:12
At the moment Xpost does not remove crossposted posts when removing the original post. However, you could set a post back to not published. This should also update the crossposts.
November 4th, 2010 at 21:40
Ok, thanks, very useful widget/plugin – does what it says and thanks for quick response. My next trick is to spell check properly….!
November 22nd, 2010 at 07:54
On testing this in 2 installs, it’s showing ‘Loading categories …’ rather than loading them.
I’m running php 5.2.14. Migh this be the issue?
November 22nd, 2010 at 19:09
That might be the problem. But it could also be a problem connecting to the other blog or some bug in the plugin itself.
November 22nd, 2010 at 19:29
Thanks.
It seems to connect and post ok – just doesn’t load the categories and instead shows that message, with no progress bar so it’s not as if there’s a delay.
Any suggestions?
November 22nd, 2010 at 19:52
Then it’s probably either a problem with the PHP version or really a bug in the plugin. I will check whether I can find a bug the next time I am working on the plugin. However, that might not be in the very near future.
November 23rd, 2010 at 09:46
Ok, thanks.
it seems to be an good plugin – and better if I can get full functionality.
Has ayone else had a similar issue?
December 10th, 2010 at 18:31
Hi,
I’m getting the following code ever since activating our Xpost plugin:
“The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. The proxy server could not handle the request POST -admin/admin.php. Reason: Error reading from remote server.”
After desactivating, everything returns to normal. Any ideas?
December 11th, 2010 at 20:48
Sorry, at the moment I have no idea what could be causing this problem.
December 14th, 2010 at 08:21
Greetings.
Finally tried your XPost plugin and am thrilled that it works with Xanga’s MetaWeblog API.
One thing. I usually use ScribeFire to post… and sometimes WordPress’s Blackberry app. When I post from those applications, the entry doesn’t crosspost (even though it makes it to my WordPress site). But if I go into WordPress and update the post, it shows up in Xanga.
I just tested… If I post from the WordPress dashboard, it goes through to Xanga straight way.
Let me know if there is something I can do to fix this apparent bug… or let me know if you sort it through an update.
Thanks for the plugin. It solved a long-time headache. Even if this glitch doesn’t get sorted, I appreciate your work.
December 14th, 2010 at 20:30
I will see if I can do something about this with the next version. However that will not be released before February or March next year.
The problem might be that the data is transmitted in a different way if the post is created via an external program.
December 18th, 2010 at 20:33
Greetings, Blubb. Love how smooth Xpost makes edits. Even in draft mode, changes transmitted to Xanga quickly.
Just wanted to ask you about another issue I encountered. I’m posting to Xanga via MetaWeblog API.
If I schedule a post on WP, the schedule holds but Xpost sends to Xanga immediately. Also, once a post is Xposted, even as a draft (which is very cool for checking formatting issues), the timestamp is set and is not changed in Xanga by subsequent updates from WP, even if I manually change the timestamp in WP.
Using Xpost Version 1.2.1 on WP 3.0.3
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A note for others who may be using Xpost to send to non-WP blogs… I had formatting problems as WP formats everything, even in HTML mode… but when the post got to Xanga, the text ran together because all the and were missing.
Solved this problem using plugin Text Control set to ‘no formatting’.
If you use WYSIWYG editor to lay out, once satisfied, change to HTML and add and (no space, of course) where needed. Don’t go back to visual editor or WP will strip out break codes. Once you post to WP, XPost will send the HTML to your other blog and formatting should be consistent. (I also had to tweak img src code — add align=”" — to get images to embed cleanly).
Happy blogging.
December 30th, 2010 at 10:10
The fields used to transmit the timestamp are probably not standardized and as it seems Xanga uses other fields. Therefore Xpost ist not fully compatible for posting to Xanga.
January 29th, 2011 at 10:24
I used this plugin in Multisite mode of WP and found that when this plugin is installed on main site it don’t work on other sites of the network. The reason was that the tables of this plugin created only on the main site, but dont created on the other sites of network. I inserted this code in the middle of xpost-options.php and all functions begin to work.
$r = mysql_query (“SELECT * FROM “.XPOST_TABLE_NAME. ” WHERE 0″);
if ($r) {
$messages[] = __(‘OK. Database Found ++.’, ‘xpost’);
} else {
$messages[] = __(‘Database Not found. Creating Database. OK’, ‘xpost’);
$sql = ‘CREATE TABLE ‘.XPOST_TABLE_NAME.’ (
id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
blogid NVARCHAR(128) NOT NULL,
selected BOOLEAN NOT NULL,
name NVARCHAR(128),
url NVARCHAR(128),
xmlrpc NVARCHAR(128) NOT NULL,
user NVARCHAR(64),
xpost_comments BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT false,
xpost_community_server BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT false,
xpost_summary_only BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT false,
password NVARCHAR(64),
comment NVARCHAR(256),
PRIMARY KEY ( id ) )’;
dbDelta( $sql );
$sql = ‘CREATE TABLE ‘.XPOST_POSTS_TABLE_NAME.’ (
id INT NOT NULL,
local_postid INT NOT NULL,
remote_postid INT NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY ( id, local_postid ) )’;
dbDelta( $sql );
}
February 12th, 2011 at 00:53
Having issues w/ Xpost on a WP network (multi-user) install WP v3.0.5 under PHP v5.3.2. I gave the xmlrpc url of the primary blog to the plugin, and all of the sub-sites were added as xpost destinations, which is okay, but not what I expected. They all show up in the sidebar during post editing as possible destinations for cross-posting, along with the correct category and comment checkboxes. However, when I attempt to cross-post something it doesn’t show up on the destination blog. No errors, no indications that there’s been a problem, it just doesn’t show up. I’ve got XMLRPC turned on for all of the sub-sites, and have Xpost activated for all of them as well. Anybody else experiencing anything similar?
February 13th, 2011 at 07:40
To get the plugin working on a Network (MU) install, in addition to the above changes suggested by Mishel Sterin, you need to add the line:
require_once( ABSPATH.'wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php' );to get access to the dbDelta() function. I also had to edit the XMLRPC urls in the database. On install, all of the URLs point to the first blog that you added to xpost, instead of to the xmlrpc.php file for each of the individual subblogs, which results int he cross-posts always being posted to that blog, instead of your intended destination blog.
February 14th, 2011 at 02:48
A fine plugin, provides features I’ve wanted a long time. One question though. The featured image doesn’t transfer with the post, and sometimes images in the post wind up missing as well. Biggest problem though is the “featured Image” issue since fixing it requires that I edit the cross-posted article.
May 24th, 2011 at 22:35
I’m using WordPress 3.1.2, and currently whenever cross posting, it gives me an error 500 (only when cross posting) but still posts it to the current blog. It doesn’t cross post it to any other blog. This happens with either of the blogs I use for this. I’m assuming this means its something to do with the xmlrpc, but not sure exactly what. Haven’t had a chance to look into the problem, but I was wondering if you knew what was up with this? My credentials are all fine, and I can post normally to all blogs, its just cross posting that seems to be a problem. Might be my problem and not yours, but not sure…
May 24th, 2011 at 22:48
Actually, nevermind, its my problem
figured it out…
June 19th, 2011 at 08:14
hi,i like your plugin.Does it can working like the “Syndicate Out” plugin do that A-category sync to A blog,B-category sync to B blog.but it can’t sync the comments.can u explore something like that?thanks and sorry my poor english.
June 22nd, 2011 at 18:48
Xpost cannot automatically crosspost all articles in specific category. I have noted this and this feature might be available in a future version. However, currently I have not much free time to work on Xpost. So do not expect it in the near future.
June 24th, 2011 at 00:36
How to I change the “Read More” to the Post Title of the origin post, at the target wordpress blog.
Instead of “Read More”, if is it showing Continue to read “Post Title” .. it would be better..
June 26th, 2011 at 20:11
I am not sure whether I understand your problem completly. But to me it seems not to be a Xpost issue because the “Read More” link should be generated by the Theme you are using.
August 25th, 2011 at 22:24
Hi Blubb,
First thanks for the plugin. But i have one concern. It does not cross post galleries. For example a post that has embedded photos in it is fine, but if you embed the photos as a gallery, they will not show up on the crossed post. The reason is that word press is pointing to those photos locally as oppose to full urls.
Have you thought about fixing this issue? or is it possible at all?
August 26th, 2011 at 08:35
Probably the bug can be fixed, but I am not completly sure. However, I will not fix bugs in the current version if they involve too much work as I started development of Xpost 2. I hope to fix most of the bugs reported in that version. But do not expect Xpost 2 to be finished soon. (I am working on it alone in my free time.)
September 14th, 2011 at 05:33
Thanks for this plugin!
Seems it doesn’t works with Xanga, can I use Xpost simultaniously with that plugin http://tantannoodles.com/toolkit/xanga-crosspost/?
September 14th, 2011 at 11:11
I never tested whether Xanga and Xpost work simultansiously. Maybe I will ensure that Xpost 2 (which is still on hold) will be compatible with Xanga.
September 17th, 2011 at 05:56
As of August 31, 2011, Xanga has disabled their API because of sploggers.
September 21st, 2011 at 19:23
Hi,
according to the plugin page, I should be able to select which categories to crosspost to my other blog. However, I can’t seem to find this option. Can anybody give me some directions as to how to do this?
Thanks in advance and kind regards,
Segia
September 21st, 2011 at 19:35
Never mind, I figured that out – my bad! One more question though; will it be possible for it to synchronize the thumbnail as well? That would be brilliant.
Kind regards,
Segia
September 23rd, 2011 at 13:12
Thumbnail synchronization may come with Xpost 2. However, I am still struggling to free any time for further development.
October 27th, 2011 at 16:03
Great plugin! One suggestion:
Make it possible within the plugin settings panel to change the Blog Name or, alternatively, to give a “nickname” for the blog.
I would find this very useful because both the blog I’m crossposting FROM and the blog I’m crossposting TO have multiple authors. I set up separate blog profiles for each author, but there’s no way to tell them apart in the Xpost box on the blog editing page.
Fortunately, there are only two of us, so I know the first one listed is for me, and the second one if for my coauthor. But if we want other authors to be able to crosspost, it’s going to get confusing.
Thanks for considering this change!
– Eric
October 30th, 2011 at 17:34
Thanks for the idea. I will consider it for Xpost 2.
December 9th, 2011 at 18:13
This is great plugin, but it isn’t compatible with WPML plugin. When I activate Xpost plugin, all translated content with WPML plugin becomes English. This only happens if English is not default WordPress language.
You can download WPML plugin here http://kva.lv/47
Please help me fix this problem!
December 10th, 2011 at 18:19
We love using this plugin. A suggestion for the future: we often do galleries on our site. we just include [gallery] shortcode into the post, but the images don’t cross post over from the gallery on the main site. Would love it if it did.
December 11th, 2011 at 21:58
@SoWhat:
I am sorry, but for the time being I am not able to do any work regarding the Xpost plugin. Especially I am not able to ensure that it is compatible with every other plugin.
However, if I ever continue work on the Xpost plugin, I will see what I can do about this.
December 11th, 2011 at 22:01
@Scott G:
It is unlikely that this will ever work. Transmitting the whole image is probably not possible. Maybe the shortcode can be replaced by the URL to the image on the main site.
I will take a look into this if I ever have time again to continue work on this plugin.
December 11th, 2011 at 22:04
Maybe you have any ideas which function could be making problems? Which function could affect some translation stuff? Or atleast which file I should look at?
There is no alternative for your plugin, so it is very sad that you stopped developement of it
Anyway thank you for making such a great plugin!
December 11th, 2011 at 22:23
I have no idea what might be the problem. Basically, the plugin just takes the text of a post and transmits it via XML-RPC and the receiving part via XML-RPC is handled by WordPress itself. I do not know without some debugging why WPML doesn’t like this.
December 12th, 2011 at 09:52
I tried to turn on wp_debug mode, but there were no errors. Okay, I will try to fix plugin myself, but if you remember smth that could be making problems, please let me know
December 12th, 2011 at 13:08
If you are able to fix the problem, please let me know and I can include the fix in an official release. In case you are familiar with git/github you can find the source code at https://github.com/jgosmann/xpost
February 2nd, 2012 at 15:48
Hi, your plug-in is great!
It would be perfect if will be possible to grab images too…
anyway, great job