krowland08

After further diagnostics, it appears that the cache is getting a blank page inserted into it. So it delivers a blank page. By using WP Fast Cache I was able to see blank pages going into the cache and errors finally showing up.

My problem is something with my Apache setup, as I’m running just on a public IP number and the AWS instance is running on a local IP, and so the plugin cannot retrieve the page to cache it.

I couldn’t tell if WP Total cache is having the same problem, but I’m sure it is. So this is not a caching bug, but a server config issue, which I’ll work out later.

Thanks everyone for listening.

Interesting datapoint.

I uninstalled W3 Total Cache and added Wp Fast Cache. Guess what?

Same blank screen when cache enabled for non-logged in users!!! After logging out… I get ONE good download, then refreshing get blank page. This time a 200 OK message, but no data.

Something similar between these two caching programs is causing same symptoms.

Enabling “Late init” for me, just seems to turn off caching of the page and so it is displayed. The debug info for page cache is missing.

Clearing Late init, and enabling page debug, for a logged in user the page displays and shows the debug data.

Logout and a blank Server 500 error.

Using AWS Elesticache, but same results using the internal disk cache.

I had a small discussion with the developer of Types and he stated that the DATE is indeed stored as a DATETIME variable, but the time is set to 00:00 for now. It looks like the storage infrastructure is ready to add the time portion of this variable, but the front end interface needs to be added.

The tricky part is that you are entering both a Date field and some Time fields (Hours, Minutes, Seconds, AM/PM), but then need to be combined into ONE stored variable in the database.

And you might want to have just have a TIME value, that is not tied to any date. Like just wanting to enter the time of the day.

Some old school systems force you to enter the text of DATETIME in a one-line field, ie. “09-25-2012 13:05:00 PST” and you’d have to get it exactly right or it fails. Kind of like setting the system clock on a Unix system. 🙁 So a much better GUI front-end needs to do this for you.

Kind of need a Date only, Time Only and DateTIme fields. For now you could use a text box and let the user type in 12:34 or two Numeric fields, Hours and Minutes as you see fit for your display purposes, but it wouldn’t be error checked.

I too hope that time gets added to Date in the near future. It would be easier to handle AM/PM, Timezone, and error checking.

Maybe the more people who request this can encourage the developers!

UPDATE: Come to think of it, should probably mimic the WordPress Publish Date and Time entry boxes style. But then there is no way to change the TimeZone and you always work in 24-hour time. 🙁

I did enter some dummy instructions in the box and convinced FB to enter the “Pending” stage in the OpenGraph.

Since it does appear that your posts will not show up in you timeline to the public until you complete the Open Graph submission process, I’ll now wait to see how long it takes to be “Approved” and by who I don’t know.

MULTISITE Followup:

I was able to convince the plug-in to post to all three blogs, by LOGGING out of FB, then go into the FB Plug-in admin page and there it asked to authenticate again, and this time the correct APP page. So I have 3 blogs, attached to 3 APPS and each one WILL post to my timeline and WILL show the correct Blog it’s coming from.

I assume only I can see these postings on my timeline, they are not public until I complete the OpenGraph process. So, following the instructions I go back to the Open Graph page and…

I still can’t get the Open Graph “Submit” to take? I first was asked to supply an ICON and LOGO, which I did, now I get:

Built-in Action Types require that you provide instructions for using your app’s Open Graph integration as your Open Graph Test User in a functioning test environment. Failure to provide a functioning test environment will result in rejection of your Action Type.

I hope my posts are helpful to others.

So I will go to another thread as I’ve gotten past the posting to the timeline and now need to get past the Open Graph issue.

I added an ICON and LOGO, and now got this:

Built-in Action Types require that you provide instructions for using your app’s Open Graph integration as your Open Graph Test User in a functioning test environment. Failure to provide a functioning test environment will result in rejection of your Action Type.

I want to report a SUCCESS of posting to Facebook, with todays update. Thank you for fixing that.

However my MULTISITE experience is as follows. First I made a different Facebook APP for each of my multi-site blogs. Let’s call them FIRST APP for FIRST BLOG, and another SECOND APP for SECOND BLOG.

As a Multi-Site admin, with multiple blogs, as a single author (and admin) on all blogs/sites, I only got authenticated with the FIRST APP, (when I posted on FIRST BLOG) to my Facebook account/timeline, which now works for the entire network. Sound like that’s the way you designed it.

So when I posted to the SECOND BLOG in the network, which has the SECOND APP keys installed, I was not asked to authenticate with the SECOND APP, even though the blog has a different APP keys.

My SECOND BLOG post still goes to my timeline, but it may say it’s from my FIRST APP I authenticated with, even though the post is from the SECOND BLOG. The link will correctly go to the SECOND BLOG post URL, but the FIRST APP is used to describe the link coming from the FIRST APP/BLOG.

I invite anyone else to verify this. But it’s at least posting to the timeline. I was just hoping to have each blog, which has a different app, could post to my timeline and refer to the correct APP/BLOG.

UPDATE: I did finally get the plugin to recognize TWO blogs/apps and was able to post correctly from each one. I’m trying a third and it still thinks I’m authenticate to the FIRST APP. Not sure what the magic sauce was to get two working.