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How to write a post so it will trigger
So here's my quandary.
According to settings I'm good to go- user API key (verified), and PHP 5 (verified, 5.2.6) with the CURL module (verified). I make the following to set up a custom trigger for the plugin (I have a custom trigger setup for ping.fm called blog that will send to LJ and Myspace- from what I understand that's what has to be set for Trigger Description)
Trigger Label/Type: blog / blog entry is selected from the drop down
Trigger Description: blog
Trigger format: $body
I make a test post on my site to test the plugin. I don't see this when I click on recent at ping.fm. What am i missing here? Do I have to type my post a certain way to get the trigger to work. Is my trigger set up properly?
According to settings I'm good to go- user API key (verified), and PHP 5 (verified, 5.2.6) with the CURL module (verified). I make the following to set up a custom trigger for the plugin (I have a custom trigger setup for ping.fm called blog that will send to LJ and Myspace- from what I understand that's what has to be set for Trigger Description)
Trigger Label/Type: blog / blog entry is selected from the drop down
Trigger Description: blog
Trigger format: $body
I make a test post on my site to test the plugin. I don't see this when I click on recent at ping.fm. What am i missing here? Do I have to type my post a certain way to get the trigger to work. Is my trigger set up properly?
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Inappropriate?Make sure that the trigger is activated, saved, and the global options saved as well. Currently, that's the process. It will get easier in later versions.
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Inappropriate?Confirmed. Said trigger is activated, saved and I clicked the Update button at the bottom of the settings page for a global save. Yet I get nada. I also took a look at my table for my DB...I've got no entries in the _pingpressfm table at all. Any thoughts on something I may have overlooked? -
Inappropriate?Confirmed. Said trigger is activated, saved and I clicked the Update button at the bottom of the settings page for a global save. Yet I get nada. I also took a look at my table for my DB...I've got no entries in the _pingpressfm table at all. Any thoughts on something I may have overlooked?
Also, here's something I noticed. When I select a trigger, do a global save, then check the settings, I have no current trigger set according to the drop down. Is this how it's supposed to be, or is my selection supposed to be showing? -
Inappropriate?Umm..I'm still having this issue. I'd really like to use this. So my question is for anyone who's managed to get this working. When you check your settings, is the trigger you have active showing up in the Select A Trigger drop down??
Also, does it show in your DB tables?
Really appreciate any help trying to track down what my issue is.
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?Keep in mind that the 2.2.x line is a beta series. I don't have a lot of time these days to work on the plugin, but the next version 2.3.0 is shaping up nicely.
I'm going to lay out the process without assumption (so it might sound mean).
1) Sign up for Ping.fm
2) Set up some social networks in your Ping.fm dashboard.
3) Find your application key (in dashboard, link should says: Application key); copy key
4) In blog: install, activate plugin.
5) In PPFM settings, paste key, check 'I've changed my key...'
6) Update Settings (or Options, I forget).
6a) If the next page doesn't say you can post to Ping.fm, make sure you have entered the key correctly. Repeat #6 until you are told you can post.
7) From the drop down, select @m micro-blog
8) Select activate Trigger
9) Hit Update Trigger
10) Hit Update Settings
11) Make a test post on your blog
12) It should have posted to Ping.fm and to the social network that are set to ping from micro-blog posts.
13) http://www.ping.fm/recent posts will show up here first before the social networks.
From there you can customize as you get more comfortable with the system. And I realize it is a bit convoluted. You'll have to take my work that I'm working on making the next version smoother.
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Inappropriate?I appreciate the step by step, I have done everything as outlined many times to no avail. I suspected something wasn't saving to the table, I didn't have any indication that the triggers I selected to be active would be the ones being used by the plugin.
I have no idea what's changed between now and when I posted a couple of hours ago...it seems to be working.
I appreciate that you've developed this, because it's the very thing I've needed. I'm glad it's finally working on my site. Hopefully I didn't just jinx it. :P -
Inappropriate?I've seen this problem before, and I don't believe it has anything to do with the plugin other than it might have the timeout set too low (but if Ping.fm doesn't respond in 30 seconds...)
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Inappropriate?Just a note, I ran into the issue of the table not being created at all, I went into the plugin added ppfm_install(); above the function declaration and hit the settings page once. Then I removed the line I added, and all seems to work fine now. For some reason register_activation_hook was not being called on my blog.
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