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bebo2good1
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Posted 1 year ago #

Hi, Im having a problem, I use Windows Live Writer to Blog Wordpress with the Latest version, I moved the Blog to my server, since it was at a free host working great but I moved to my domain, but now everytime I or the staff blogs, Instead of the Blog page showing a Proper blog, it then looks like HTML Blogged.

Why is this happening?

Here's a sample:

http://ctfblog.ctforumgroup.com/?p=3

I backed up my old posts, I reinstalled WP 3 times and im getting tired doing this..

Please help me with this 0=)

Thanks!

bebo2good1
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

An Updated URL:

http://ctfblog.ctforumgroup.com/wordpress/?p=3

please any1?

iridiax
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Too high security settings at your web host could cause html tags to be stripped.

bebo2good1
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

so what do I do about this?

iridiax
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Contact your web host.

alykhan2
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

I'm having the exact same problem with 2.6.2. I've tried it with Live Writer, ScribeFire and Ecto. Any pointers on the security settings?

centepines
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Any feedback on this?
I've contacted my webhost about it and they said that is not the problem.

Hepl please?

iridiax
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

What does a sample of the code look like before posting and what does it look like after posting?

I'm really no expert on server stuff, but if your web host is using something like mod_security, it may be preventing you from posting code. Are they using it?

Also, do not use the visual editor if you are adding your own code and do not switch back and forth between the visual and html editors. Doing so will just mangle your code.

centepines
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

In my particular case, mod_security is not being used (just confirmed it with my host). I tried all ways, visual editor, source code (one at a time). Not working.
Code looks fine in WLW at the time of posting, but when cheking on my blog, you can see all the HTML (sortof) like :

strongThis is a sample sentence/strong
pThis is another sentence/p
Just like that

Same Windows Live Writer is working fine with a test account I created on a Free Web Hosting site. But in my own site (new) there's no way :(

It could be some CHMOD on some directory or something? (sorry, I'm just clueless and very frustrated :( )

iridiax
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Try temporarily disabling all plugins and see if the problem continues.

centepines
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Thanks for your reply,
Done that too :( Also, changed templates, etc
By the way, I just installed ScribeFire, and the same thing is happenning. Very strange.

iridiax
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

One other thing to try:

Go to Dashboard -> Users -> Your Profile and then deselect Use the visual editor when writing.

centepines
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Tried that too, no change. Been lurking Google, and found out some other people having the same issue, with other publishers to, like Blogjet.
One of them said uninstalling Office 2007 did the trick, but I don't see any connection with that?

centepines
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Any feedback on this or how can I fix it? :)

kim_nz
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Hi

I just found that is was libxml2-2.7.1-1.fc9 on my server that was causing the problem.

I down-graded to 2-2.6.32-1.fc9 and I was able to publish with WLW again.

davestarr
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

kim-_nz, thanks for that tip. Where did you find that file on your server, and how does one go about downgrading? I have excatly the problem you are describing, I too thought at first it was WLW and thne also thought it was something specific to WP 2.6.2, because on several blogs that have not yet been upgraded to.6.2 the problem did not appear.

For those who made a lot of helpful suggestion re. HTML and the Visual editor, this is a weird problem where WordPress displays _partial_ HTML instead of th desired human readble form. In other words, a paragraph which should read "This is my paragraph" and which of course in HTML shows "<p>This is my patagrah ... instead displays as " p>This is my paragraoh ... (note the leading '<' character is stripped of, breaking the code.

It's been really, really frustrating the past few day sas every single blog post has to be hand edited, character by character in the HTML editor to put the borked code back into readable format.

delutz
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

I asked my host to downgrade libxml per kim_nz's suggestion, but the problem persisted even after the downgrade in my case. This is frustrating.

kim_nz
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Hi.
On my Fedora 9 I had to downgrade to libxml2-2.6.32-1.fc9 and xml-common-0.6.3-23.fc9.

I initially started with a downgrade of PHP (I thought it may have been php's processing of xmlrpc.php) but still had the issue so I then downgraded libxml and xml-common and the problem was resolved.

I then re installed the latest php from the update repo. I had to set up yum to exclude libxml* and xml-common* so the nightly yum update didn't put the libxml files back in place.

I found it wasn't a WP issue when I setup a test blog site on my old Cobalt RaQ4i and had no problems publishing from WLW so I started looking into what packages were upgraded on my server around the time I upgraded WP to 2.6.2

hth
Kim

bebo2good1
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

@kim, i have cpanel, is there anything here that needs to be updated to get WLW working?

http://www.image-plex.com/files/4ngfcohaikr9lgyobtmn.jpg

Thats the pearl list versions

kim_nz
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Hi bebo2good1

AFAIK, perl modules shouldn't have any effect on WP. I could be wrong. I don't deal with perl much and haven't made any modifications to any perl libraries from what is installed by default.

lexhair
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

WordPress 2.6.x disables remote blogging by default. Go to options->writing and make sure XML-RPC blogging is checked.

murph2481
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Does anyone have a solution for this issue? I am still having problems posting using WLW to WP 2.6.2 and I have tried everything above to no avail! Anything to do would be great because I can only blog with WLW because I hate using the interface and uploading pictures it is a huge pain!

Thanks,
Dan

enlitener
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

I had that same problem. I only resolved it by deleting any plugins that would imporve the basic WP TinyMce editor. Then WLW worked fine.

homeofsport2008
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Try temporarily disabling all plugins and see if the problem continues.

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murph2481
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Nope tried that with no luck, I tried disabling all plugins with no luck

friedbeef
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

For those who made a lot of helpful suggestion re. HTML and the Visual editor, this is a weird problem where WordPress displays _partial_ HTML instead of th desired human readble form. In other words, a paragraph which should read "This is my paragraph" and which of course in HTML shows "<p>This is my patagrah ... instead displays as " p>This is my paragraoh ... (note the leading '<' character is stripped of, breaking the code.

I have this same exact problem, which is incredibly frustrating as well. Wordpress.org folks - help!

martinezgeovani
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

if you post includes images here is the possible solution http://geovanimartinez.com/?p=44

centepines
Member
Posted 11 months ago #

Any news on this?

monkeylove
Member
Posted 11 months ago #

For HTML tags being stripped, write to your web host suppport and ask them to add the XMLRPC libraries or recompile Apache.

johanhorak
Member
Posted 7 months ago #

Hi I am having this problem as well and have deactivated all plugins. I have asked my host to downgrade to libxml2-2.6.32-1.fc9 and xml-common-0.6.3-23.fc9.
I have not tried monkeylove's suggestion.

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