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A comment on the question "Ping.fm Custom URL Plugin: Ping.fm does not recognize Custom URL" in Ping.fm:

It sounds like it's definitely something with your server config, but if you contact me privately ( http://ma2t.me/email ), I can throw some test pings at your site from my server. It sounds like you've already done that, but if you want one more set of eyes to help debug, I'd be more than happy to.

I don't know why your server would be coming back with a temporary redirect, but there's probably some weird interactions happening between a server config or something else running under your web root. – Matt Jacob, on March 14, 2010 00:48

A comment on the question "Ping.fm Custom URL Plugin: Ping.fm does not recognize Custom URL" in Ping.fm:

Who's your host?

It's very possible that they have a firewall rule or something like mod_security that's blocking POST requests from other sites. There are also some WordPress plugins (e.g., Bad Behavior) that do similar things, so make sure you don't have a security plugin interfering either. – Matt Jacob, on March 12, 2010 16:01

A comment on the question "Ping.fm Custom URL Plugin: Ping.fm does not recognize Custom URL" in Ping.fm:

I haven't done any testing with 3.0 yet, so I imagine there are a number of explanations for why something would be breaking. Unfortunately, with alpha and beta versions being what they are, I can only provide support for stable releases. Have you tried under 2.9.2 yet?

Also, off the top of my head, you might want to try this:

Switch back to non-pretty permalinks and revisit the plugin's settings page. It will give you a normal URL with query string parameters. Try that out. If that works, something has probably changed with the WP_Rewrite stuff. If it doesn't work, there might be broader compatibility issues with 3.0.

If you don't want to turn off pretty permalinks, you can also edit the secret posting URL by hand. The params are pa=post&pk={your generated key}, but it's generally easier to let the plugin generate the URL for you. ;-) – Matt Jacob, on March 02, 2010 20:10

A comment on the problem "Ping.fm not posting updates to WordPress" in Ping.fm:

If you think the problem is on the Ping.fm side, here are some things to check:

* Is your Custom URL service enabled for status updates?

* Is the URL for the Custom URL service correct?

* Are you posting status updates from Ping.fm? (Check your default posting method, too. That's the one that gets used when you IM, email, etc. and don't explicitly set a method.) – Matt Jacob, on February 16, 2010 21:48

A comment on the problem "Ping.fm not posting updates to WordPress" in Ping.fm:

You say it doesn't work---can you give me a more detailed error report and list the steps you perform? Also, what's the URL to your blog?

Again, my email address is below. Feel free to send sensitive information there instead of posting it publicly.

http://bit.ly/bofHQf – Matt Jacob, on February 16, 2010 20:55

A comment on the problem "Ping.fm not posting updates to WordPress" in Ping.fm:

Are you talking about posting to a self-hosted WP blog via Ping.fm's Custom URL and my plugin? If so, can you share the following information?

* What version of PHP are you running?
* What version of WP are you running?
* What version of the plugin is installed?

If you feel more comfortable answering via email, here's my address:
http://bit.ly/bofHQf – Matt Jacob, on February 16, 2010 19:08

Matt Jacob replied on January 26, 2010 22:00 to the question "help with how to fix a spelling error." in Ping.fm:

Once it's sent, it's sent. You'll have to change it at each individual source it was posted (pinged?) to.

A comment on the idea "New version of WordPress Custom URL plugin released" in Ping.fm:

Only if you have 2 Ping.fm accounts. ;-) Each site requires its own Custom URL and Ping.fm limits you to one of those per account. – Matt Jacob, on January 26, 2010 04:52

Matt Jacob replied on January 17, 2010 18:58 to the question "ping.fm doesn't impact Facebook post quality - why?" in Ping.fm:

I think this must only apply to FB pages, because I don't see anything like this on my normal FB profile. Also, I can't see anything related to the quality of your posts. I would bet that only the logged-in owner of a page can see stats related to that page.

Matt Jacob replied on January 16, 2010 16:49 to the question "ping.fm doesn't impact Facebook post quality - why?" in Ping.fm:

Post quality? Where did you even find this statistic?

Matt Jacob replied on January 16, 2010 16:48 to the question "can I update my status via an http post command?" in Ping.fm:

That's what the Custom URL service type is.

Matt Jacob replied on January 13, 2010 19:40 to the question "2 Different URLS in My Posts" in Ping.fm:

Go to http://ping.fm/settings/default/. Is "Shorten links in posts" enabled?

Matt Jacob replied on January 13, 2010 19:35 to the question "How to remove date / time stamp" in Ping.fm:

There is a way, but it's not as easy as flipping a switch. It's not rocket science, either, so don't worry. In your WP_BASE/wp-content/plugins/pingfm-custom-url-status-updates directory, open up pingfm-class.php.

Around line 562 of that file, you'll see this:

$html .= make_clickable(wp_specialchars($r->status)) . '
';
$timestamp = "" . human_time_diff(strtotime($r->timestamp)) . " ago\n";

if ($permalink) {
$html .= sprintf("%s", $timestamp);
}
else {
$html .= $timestamp;
}


Change that block to this instead, and you should be good to go:

$html .= make_clickable(wp_specialchars($r->status)) . "\n";


Note: this is untested, but it should work just fine. ;)

Matt

Matt Jacob replied on January 08, 2010 22:58 to the problem "My custom URL is NOT getting updates..." in Ping.fm:

You can't just add an arbitrary URL as a custom URL and expect everything to work. The URL on the receiving end needs to have wiring in place to handle the POST from Ping.fm. The most common use case for a custom URL is a script living on your site that does something cool with the data it receives.

Hope that helps,

Matt