twistedsymphony

you don’t need to worry about that… 100% of the function text should be in the editor window just use CTRL+F to find the line.

ok after posting above I decided to spend a few minutes browsing how the Tumbler API worked, and then digging through the code. I found the root of the problem to be the way he modifies the post body before sending it to Tumblr.

for whatever reason he strips out quotes which screws up html tag parameter, and uses entity decode for a reason I don’t understand.

Also he uses shorthand string concatenation all over the place which upon trying to reactivate the plugin, wordpress was not happy. (is it really so hard to end quote and put a . for superior compatibility? really?)

Anyway… for me replacing this line:

$post_body = wpautop(str_replace('\"', "", html_entity_decode($post->post_content)));

with this:

$post_body = wpautop($post->post_content);

For me this made all of my error 500 problems disappear

Use this fix at your own risk… I take no responsibility for anything you do with this information

Like I said, I don’t know why he was using “str_replace” to remove quotes or why he was using “html_entity_decode” so I don’t know what problems he might have been trying to fix with those…

I have not found the answer yet, nor have I found any rhyme or reason to the errors… some posts work, others refuse to.

FWIW my site has editors from all over the world writing posts, my posts seem to go through fine (I’m the only Admin) but it’s the posts from the other editors that seem to have issues (some work, some don’t).

I still haven’t resolved this issue… the XLM-RPC looks like it should work, but I’ve yet to find any good documentation on how to use this for my needs.

I know my way around php pretty well at this point but the XLM-RPC stuff is just over my head. I’d need a good breakdown of how it works or an example of a similar use.

Phoat, if you change the design of your site… and the setting for the sizing of medium and thumbnail images it wouldn’t matter what the name of the file is in your post… because you’d have to go back through and regenerate all of the medium and thumbnail images ANYWAY… think about it, it’s not done on the fly, it’s done on upload… at that point changing the file name is trivial.

As a personal update, I’ve been using the method outlined by Otto42 above and it’s worked exactly as I’ve needed it. Thanks again.

OK I’ve read through all the XML-RPC stuff I can find and I’ve found a few examples of how to create a “post” with an older version of WP, none of which seem to work now… i haven’t found any information about creating a “page” with it though, which is what I really need to do…

basically i have a PHP app separate from WP, I know everything about what I want to publish to my WP page I need to be able to set at least these three parameters: title, parent page, and template

things that I don’t need to set but might be handy:
page content, permalink, custom fields, author.

and I need to know the WordPress ID of the newly created page. Notice that I don’t need to actually set the content, this is because the template I’m using connects to an external database and populates a lot of content for me… most of the time when I create these pages the actual page content is empty.

I’m getting to know PHP pretty well and I’ve made a few small WP plugins and written a handful of database driven we sites, but this XML-RPC stuff is above my head and I’m not even sure if it can do what I want it to do.

Is there any documentation or example code for creating a WP page with the currently used version of xml-rpc?

Is there an alternative method I can use if this doesn’t work?