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Wordpress 2.3 and Windows Live Writer issue

Published on October 17, 2007 in Wordpress and Wordpress Related. 2 Comments

I recently updated one of my Wordpress blogs to v2.3

All seemed to be going well until I tried to post a new entry using Windows Live Writer (v12.0.1277.816) and it had an issue. Live Writer would post the entry yet come back with an error. It would not know it had posted the entry and would therefore save it as a draft. Also, republishing the same (draft) entry would result in an entirely new copy being published on the blog. The error was this:

Invalid Server Response

The response to the metaWeblog.editPost method received from the weblog server was invalid:

Invalid response document returned from XmlRpc server.

I hunted high and low for a solution. I did not find one. Then I thought perhaps there was an issue with my plugins. After disabling all plugins and then one-by-one reactivating them, I discovered the one causing the issue: Google Sitemaps v2.7.1

Looking up this plugin on the Wordpress 2.3 plugin compatibility list I see it is not compatible and that there is an updated version (3.0). I deleted the 2.7.1 version (just one file called sitemaps.php) and installed the folder and files for v3.0

After activating this new version I no longer get the publishing error on Windows Live Writer.

The lesson here is to check that all activated plugins are compatible with the latest version of Wordpress.

The Productive CAPTCHA System

Published on October 13, 2007 in Internet Related, Joomla, Tools, Web Applications, Web Design and Wordpress. 0 Comments

Looking for a CAPTCHA system to stop comment spamming on your blog or other web application?

It has been calculated that about 150,000 hours of human labor is spent filling out CAPTCHA requests on web sites wishing to reduce spam. Yet another waste of time and energy expended on dealing with idiots the persist in proliferating unwanted advertising material in this world.

The reCAPTCHA project doesn’t have the answer to eliminating website spammers but it does have a solution for putting the time spent filling out CAPTCHA questions into productive use. Every time the reCAPTCHA system dishes out CAPTCHA words it is in fact using this people-power to convert scanned copies of archived books into digital format. Click here to read more about it.

If you didn’t know about the huge online media archive over at www.archive.org you may like to check that out also. There you will find a vast library of free ebooks that are digitised copies of old books that are no longer under copyright protection. There are also many other resources at this site, including archives of millions of web sites.

Excellent Wordpress Plugins

Published on April 28, 2007 in Wordpress. 0 Comments

There is a great list of Wordpress plug-ins over at the ditii.com web site. You’ll find them here. (http://www.ditii.com/blog/2007/04/11/dtwl-best-wordpress-plugins/)
I think most of my favorites are there, along with numerous other plug-ins many people will find useful.

Wordpress Plugin - smart update pinger

Published on August 19, 2006 in Wordpress. 0 Comments

This little plug-in has a very simple, silent, and useful feature. Essentially it ensures that your blog will only ping the various blog tracking servers when you publish a new blog entry, and not when you edit an existing entry. There is really no reason to ping these servers when you have updated.

This plug-in  can be found at: http://www.daven.se/usefulstuff/wordpress-plugins.html

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