Why do I need to be logged in?

Hi

The first part you got the wrong way round, when I am logged in and import a feed (batch of articles), the Publicize action DOES work, with FB,G+,TW all going out.

It is when I am not logged in and the feed is imported that the publicize actions don’t seem to work.

Therefore it seems like being logged in as admin in an open browser window is somehow affecting it?

Also re the tick boxes, surely even if disabled, when editing a post that has had successful Publicize actions to the various listed Social Media outlets WORK, then they should be ticked, even if I cannot edit them?

This would show the user that the Publicize actions to those sites had worked without the need for custom fields etc.

Also re the _wpas_ custom fields.

If I am displaying Custom Fields on my edit page then surely if Publicize HAD worked these should be showing up along with my other custom fields? At the moment whether it works or not I don’t see any custom fields named _wpas_ on the page.

Thanks for your help

Rob

Hi okay I’ll check the DB, why don’t they show custom fields with an underscore OR why don’t you rename them to NOT have an underscore so that users could see the values on the page – checkboxes being ticked would be better of course. But it depends what other data you store e.g failures or errors – that would be great to see on the page.

The plugin I use to import feeds is WP-O-Matic that uses SimplePie to load in feeds. However I have customized it a bit to make it add in custom categories depending on the content of the article but the core of the plugin should be the same as the original or the one being used at the moment.

Thanks

Rob

Hi

The problem is that I have customised it a lot so that it’s now proprietary code.

What I can say is that it is the same code as WP-O-Matic, e.g it uses SimplePie to fetch feeds but then it also does the following
-checks the feed type as if it’s a small piece of text it might use your wp_remote_get function to get the URL, extract the body of the article with regular expressions, then analyse the content to see if it’s relevant (e.g with a list of keywords), and also runs it through a function that assigns categories to it depending on whether it has certain words in the article. It then saves the article with this insert post function.

function insertPost($title, $content, $timestamp = null, $category = null, $status = 'draft', $authorid = null, $allowpings = true, $comment_status = 'open', $meta = array())
  {
    $date = ($timestamp) ? gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s', $timestamp + (get_option('gmt_offset') * 3600)) : null;
    $postid = wp_insert_post(array(
    	'post_title' 	            => $title,
  		'post_content'  	        => $content,
  		'post_content_filtered'  	=> $content,
  		'post_category'           => $category,
  		'post_status' 	          => $status,
  		'post_author'             => $authorid,
  		'post_date'               => $date,
  		'comment_status'          => $comment_status,
  		'ping_status'             => $allowpings
    ));

		foreach($meta as $key => $value)
			$this->insertPostMeta($postid, $key, $value);			

		return $postid;
  }

Therefore I think it might be something to do with the length of time all this takes?

I also have my own Strictly AutoTags / StrictlyTweetBot plugins which
a) analyse the content for relevant post tags, adding new ones or existing ones.
b) then if TweetBot is installed (which it is), it waits for my finished_tagging hook before running and Tweeting out the posts.

What seems to happen when Jetpack / Publicize is enabled is this
-A plugin called Postie that takes emails and converts them to posts never works and the posts always stay as drafts.
-I will get posts added but not published
-I will have some of my Strictly AutoTags plugin SEO work done on the content (deeplinking/bolding etc) – will be done BUT no tags will be added which means…
-Strictly TweetBot never runs as the finished_tagging never fires.

Why I have no idea all I can say is what happens when I turn the plugin on and off.

I can run the plugin to import feeds manually logged in as admin and it will work fine e.g, posts with tags, tweets and all the publicize posts.

However a CRON job running the same WP-O-Matic feed import will cause, posts, not published OR no tags, and no tweets.

At the moment I am having to manually turn it on and off before and after my email import runs in the morning and then manually run the feed import to ensure publicize pushes out to LinkedIn/Tumblr etc.

I also have to constantly check for posts with no tags from CRON initiated jobs.

I am just wondering if it is do with the sequential processing of the steps OR the priority flag not working e.g maybe I need to set it really high in JetPack (Can I do this) OR it is do with an Admin logged in cookie which means when I run the job manually it works, automatically it doesn’t.

Is there any hook that can be added or event/action that I could manually fire from my OTHER plugins to fire Publicize rather than letting it run automatically as this would allow me to tag, tweet then FIRE your code?

Thanks for your help

Rob

Hi

The problem is that the tagging plugin fires on_save (publish/draft) which is why I have to add a hook finished_tagging as if a post is published I then, take it out the DB, analyse it for tags, save the tags and re-save (with SQL) the article before setting finished_tagging which the TweetBOT listens for and then runs.

I am guessing as you run on publish there are no tags at that point but why it stops everything else running I don’t know.

Problem with turning one off is the three are linked

email => Posite parses and puts it on the system => (with Publicize nothing goes from draft to publish)
normal feed import (admin) => publish is fired, strictly autotags runs & re-saves the post, sets the finished_tagging hook => strictlyTweetBot runs and Tweets.

I think although I wish I had all the Jetpack code to debug, it’s to do with the timings of the actions/events firing.

Thanks

Rob