nikib3

Thank you both Steve and Clayton. I appreciate you taking the time to respond. I’ll leave it as updated then.

I’ve checked and the plugin version is 1.3.7
Original version 1.3.7
Plugin URI: http://fullworks.net/
Author URI: http://fullworks.net

Modified version:1.3.7
Plugin URI: http://fullworks.net/wordpress-plugins/
Author URI: http://fullworks.net/wordpress-plugins/

So the modification has been made to the original version. Perhaps the plugin developers just made an additional update. I had only updated to the new version yesterday.

Thanks Steve for the suggestion to contact the developer. I should have thought of that.
Thanks Clayton for your explanation. It looks like everything is legitimate.

Have an awesome day.

Cheers

Well, not so good news for me. 3 points:

1) I’ve now discovered that WP 4.2 requires the updated “Press This” [PT] tool, which I don’t like as much as the earlier version. Latest version:
1) doesn’t give you the option to edit post from the PT dialogue box. You have to go back into WP/Posts to make any changes. I always add the author and the date at the top of each article, plus a comment before the end backlink. I have to make sure I don’t forget to do this before publishing. Bit of a nuisance.
2) comes already italicised. Have to backspace to get it to normal font.

2) Hostgator made the changes, which took a bit of sorting out (they actually had to see the error in action to fully understand what was happening). This also means that for any new website I create, I will have to contact Hostgator and go thru the whole process each time. Bit of mucking around.

3) So now, I have 3 websites updated to WP 4.2, consequently having to use the updated PT tool (not happy). I also have 2 websites with WP 4.1 and previous version of PT. I have to make the decision whether to stay with WP 4.1 or update to WP 4.2 and use newer version of PT.

I DO WISH developers would not make new versions ‘better’ … it invariably ends up not being ‘better’. This is not a case of not liking change; it means it now takes me longer to post articles.

I did try the previous workaround of copying/pasting from V1 of PT to V2 but that didn’t work. The code for the latest version is completely different – much longer.

Oh well, the ‘joys’ of modern technology.

Not the result I was looking for, but seems I’ll just have to get used to it. Haven’t made up my mind about updating my last 2 websites to 4.2.

Hope this helps – sort of.

Cheers Niki

Hi Marius, thank you for your quick response.

Yes I did upload the new version from my admin pages, but I got a 404 error message. In the previous versions, this error message came up for some of my websites, but I got around it by copying/pasting the code from one that worked and amending to suit the URL. This always worked for me, but when I tried to do the same this time around, it didn’t work properly. I could get the content into the blog, but the backlink to the originating site didn’t populate.

However, I found an article that talked about the 404 error and recommended contacting Hostgator to get them to make changes to allow it to work. That’s on my ‘to do’ list today.

Hopefully that fixes it. If not, I may have to use a plugin to do the same thing, but don’t really want to take this approach. Don’t like having too many plugins on my sites.

Are you able to recommend a plugin to do content curation, just in case I need to take this route?

Again, thanks heaps for letting me know that it does work and it’s not a problem with ‘Press This’. (Really love that tool – it’s been awesome – hope I can fix the issue and continue to use it).

Thanks again for taking the time to respond.

Cheers

Thanks Andrew for quick response. Easy when you know how.

Cheers

Hi Andrew thanks for your quick response. Unfortunately, that didn’t help.

Pasting the ‘Press This’ tool straight into the toolbar didn’t work, so I right-clicked on the tool, got the code and pasted that into the URL. That doesn’t work either.

The error message from Hostgator comes up with a .htaccess issue so I’m inclined to think it must be something to do with Hostgator permissions, even though they don’t seem to think so.

But, it looks like I’ve come up against a brick wall, as Hostgator doesn’t seem to want to look into it any further.

Thanks for your help.

Hi and thanks to you both.
Response to WPyogi – thank you. Unfortunately the site is still on my localhost. I’m not yet ready to launch it.
Response to shamratdewan – special thanks to you for that link. I’ve checked it out and it looks very informative. Until I have some time to play with the settings to see what I can get to work, I’ll leave it alone, but at least I have some valuable info to work with.

Thanks heaps to you both for taking the time to respond. Love that people are so willing to share their knowledge – especially for us newbies and non-techies. Again, many thanks to you both.