Goodreads Autopublish reviews

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  coffee2words · Member · Aug 29, 2012 at 4:30 am

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  I am looking for some assistance with the autopublish feature from goodreads with the wordpress site. This is the instruction from goodreads about autopublishing your reviews to your blog:

  I can’t seem to get auto-publishing reviews to my WordPress blog to work. What’s wrong?

  1. Did you paste the correct URL?
  For a WordPress blog, you can find the correct URL by going to your blog’s main page, and then viewing the source code. You’ll find a line that looks like this:

  link rel=”EditURI” type=”application/rsd+xml” title=”RSD” href=” http://www.yourblog.com/xmlrpc.php ?rsd”

  The URL to use is in the ‘href’ section. Leave off the ‘?rsd’. In the above example, your post url would be http://www.yourblog.com/xmlrpc.php.

  2. Did you enable “remote publishing” in your WordPress settings?
  To check, go to: WordPress blog –> Settings –> Writing.

  3. Are you using an admin user’s information?
  Unfortunately, contributors won’t work.

  I believe I have followed the first step correctly, but I am unable to locate a ‘remote publishing’ setting to ‘turn on’. From my searches of the forums and help topics I have found a number of replies that say you can turn on autopublishing by email and by voice, but nothing similar to what goodreads advises.

  Grateful for some advice.

  C2W

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 29, 2012 at 5:07 am

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  Autopublishing content here is against the rules and will basically get your site suspended. WordPress.com is not an aggregator; it is a platform for original blogging.

  If you want an aggregator, you want WordPress.ORG. Those instructions are for a WordPress.ORG blog, which is not bound by our terms of service, etc.

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  coffee2words · Member · Aug 29, 2012 at 5:09 am

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  @Raincoaster – thanks for the clarification.

  I imagine that gets a little confusing for people.

  Cheers,

  C2W

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 29, 2012 at 5:44 am

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  All the time. Until the robot filter was put in place at least a third of our questions were from .org bloggers who were confused.

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  sirjunwang · Member · Sep 5, 2012 at 1:10 am

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  my blog is at wordpress.com, and I linked it with goodreads, and when I wrote a review, it is not autopublished on my blog http://www.jrwang.net

  I did not find remotepublish at all.. how to set it? help/