Why can’t my blog publicize?
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Reference #1: http://pasighobbyist.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/i-have-discontinued-feeding-my-wordpress-com-posts-into-my-facebook-account/
Reference #2: http://pasighobbyist.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/i-hate-being-the-only-wordpress-com-blogger-that-cant-publicize-into-twitter-and-facebook/
My blog is the ONLY blog that fails to publicize into Twitter and Facebook! Why???
Is it because I am living in the Philippines and the WordPress users in Philippines are not allowed to publicize into Twitter and Facebook?
Is it because I am using Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer for blogging?
Is it because I am a US Citizen in the Philippines?
As it seems, I am the ONLY WordPress.com blogger that has problems with Publicizing into Twitter and Facebook, and that is called DISCRIMINATION. I am OFFENDED!!!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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The instructions at http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/
Are followed BEFORE and AFTER each Publish. The result is the SAME.
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Hang on now, before you call out “discrimination,” have you tried completely following the reconnect steps, including deleting the Facebook app and clearing your cookies?
http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/#reconnecting-facebook
http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/#reconnecting-twitter
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Test Message #1 FAILED: http://pasighobbyist.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/testing-if-wordpress-support-is-helping-or-not-publicizing-into-facebook-and-twitter/
Test Message #2 FAILED: http://pasighobbyist.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/test-number-2-attempted-to-publicize-into-facebook-and-twitter-per-wordpress-supports-instructions/
Instructions followed: (from WordPress Support – Naoko)
1. Log into your WordPress.com blog. Go to your blog’s dashboard -> “My Blogs” -> uncheck “Facebook” under “Publicize”.
(On the “My Blogs” page, make sure you’re looking at the correct row for the blog in question.)2. Reload the page and confirm that the Facebook checkbox is unchecked.
3. Explicitly log out of WordPress.com (“My Account” -> “Log Out” in the WordPress.com bar at the top of the page).
4. Log into your Facebook account. Go to “Account” (upper right corner) -> “Application Settings”. Remove “WordPress.com” by clicking the “X” in its row. (If there is no WordPress.com row, don’t worry, just skip this step).
5. Explicitly log out of Facebook (“Account” in the upper right -> “Logout”).
6. *Clear all browser cookies*. This seems redundant, but there could be a bug in WordPress.com that left cookies on one of our other domains despite logging you out.
7. Log *back* into your WordPress.com blog. Go to your blog’s dashboard -> My Blogs -> *reclick* “Facebook” under “Publicize”.
8. Wait for the popup appear that asks you to “Authorize connection with Facebook”. Click that button.
9. If you get an option while logging in to Facebook to “keep me logged in” during this authorization process, check it.
10. You’ll be taken to Facebook and asked to “Allow” several pieces. Allow them all.
11. Create a *new* post on WordPress.com. Make sure the Facebook checkbox is checked, then publish the post.
I’m keeping the two (2) FAILED posts on my blog, so admins can see why those posts did NOT post into my Facebook and Twitter accounts.
How many times do I need to delete Facebook and Twitter apps in WordPress? How many times do I need to delete WordPress in Facebook’s privacy section and in Twitter’s connections? I’ve configured my Firefox to delete cookies and history upon exiting. I have used NETGATE to remove evidence of WordPress cookies, Facebook cookies, and Twitter cookies BEFORE re-authorizing WordPress, Facebook, and Twitter, again and again.
I am using Windows Live Writer to blog into WordPress.com.
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“I am using Windows Live Writer to blog into WordPress.com.”
That may be the problem, and it would certainly be interesting to find out.
Would you mind going through the reconnect procedure just one more time, then publish a post through your WordPress Dashboard, not WLW?
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Windows Live Writer has been posting into Facebook and Twitter via WordPress.com (multiple sites), every post until January 28th, 2011 arrived.
Resolving Facebook Posting w/o WordPress: http://plugins.live.com/writer/detail/facebook-live-writer-plugin
Resolving Twitter Posting w/o WordPress: http://plugins.live.com/writer/detail/twitter-notify
Last successful posting from WLW to Facebook & Twitter via WordPress: http://pasighobbyist.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/seeeduino-advisory-input-power-minor/ – Since this post was posted, posting no longer publicizes.
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Cool, if you have plugins that’ll do that job instead, that’s fine.
We haven’t changed anything with Publicize to Twitter recently, which is why I’m suspecting that WLW may play a part.
I’ll try it out on WLW myself later, when its more like 2pm, and less like 2am. :)
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Well, sleep is for the weak after all, but:
lack of sleep (because it’s for the weak, you know) = weak = sleep required
:)
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Test Number 3 has FAILED: http://pasighobbyist.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/test-number-3-attempting-to-publicize-into-facebook-and-twitter/
Snapshots are posted in Test Number 3 blog post.
Test Number 4 will be using Windows Live Writer plugins.
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Also, “My Blogs” says, “Authorize Connection with Facebook”, again.
So, de-authorizing Facebook & Twitter, deleting cookies, restarting computer & internet, re-authorizing Facebook & Twitter, deleting cookies, and then, publishing through WIndows Live Writer results in no posting into Facebook and Twitter.
I haven’t tried using the Web Posting feature of WordPress.com because WordPress.com doesn’t know how to handle missing packets, which is the reason why I use Windows Live Writer in the first place. My local ISP in Philippines has been having UDP packets being routed to wrong customers for the past three years. I’ve encountered number missing blog entries by using the Web Interface of WordPress.com… In most cases, I get TinyProxy Cache error and the blog entry was never saved. After loosing too many posts by using the Web Interface, I resorted to using Windows Live Writer, exclusively with WordPress.com.
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FYI, I have been using Windows Live Writer to post into WordPress.com since 2009. Throughout 2010, all of my WordPress.com posts from Windows Live Writer have appeared into Twitter and Facebook. January 28, 2011 was the first time I started noticing Facebook and Twitter problems in WordPress.
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Deleting my posts:
http://pasighobbyist.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/i-hate-being-the-only-wordpress-com-blogger-that-cant-publicize-into-twitter-and-facebook/
http://pasighobbyist.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/testing-if-wordpress-support-is-helping-or-not-publicizing-into-facebook-and-twitter/
http://pasighobbyist.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/test-number-2-attempted-to-publicize-into-facebook-and-twitter-per-wordpress-supports-instructions/
http://pasighobbyist.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/i-have-discontinued-feeding-my-wordpress-com-posts-into-my-facebook-account/As I recall, I don’t think my WordPress.com blogs ever posted into Yahoo! Updates and Messenger Connect. Now, I can add Facebook and Twitter to the list that my blogging account won’t publicize with.
I’m changing Twitter from smart button to regular, so I won’t see a ZERO on every post I publish. Facebook converted to Like only.
It is publicly announced on my blog that my blog is the only WordPress blog that fails to publicize. I thought WorldPress.com Support would’ve helped me, but their solution is to only use the web posting interface, and blame Windows Live Writer (that has error detection routings that WordPress.com doesn’t have).
Six years of using WordPress.com (different accounts) and Publicizing began failing on January 28, 2011 and completely fails on February 2, 2011.
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I thought WorldPress.com Support would’ve helped me, but their solution is to only use the web posting interface, and blame Windows Live Writer (that has error detection routings that WordPress.com doesn’t have).
That wasn’t a solution, just a thought that I had at 2am.
“We haven’t changed anything with Publicize to Twitter recently, which is why I’m suspecting that WLW may play a part.”
I tested WLW this morning and had no issue, so that’s definitely not the problem.
Can you please contact us via http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/ to work this out? We can do a lot more working one-on-one than we can on the forums.
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Where are you getting the information that yours is the only blog that is failing to post to Twitter and Facebook? There is multitudinous evidence that this statement is false.
If you wig out and cry discrimination every time you experience a technical fail with cutting-edge technology, you’re going to start to be discriminated against simply because you cry wolf so often.
Tech fails. That, at least, is consistent.
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@raincoaster: I told him on another thread that perhaps he was the only one having that problem. Otherwise, we would have had a lot more forum threads about it. Maybe the message was taken too seriously.
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We do have a lot of threads about it. But yes, he seems to take things both over-literally and over-personally.
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