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Tag Archives: WordPress
Happy Aniversary
To me …
WPiOS 5.3.1 = happy
The ever vigilant WP Happiness Engineers listened patiently to my rant and have released 5.3.1.
At first blush this seems to address my unhappiness. 🙂
Thanx
Automattic
“We are passionate about making the web a better place.”
Discovered this via the iOS app
Me > Settings > About
by touching the www.automattic.com
I did not realize just how much Automattic was into:
WordPress.com
Jetpack
Simplenote
Synchronization
Cloudup
VaultPress
Akismet
Polldaddy
Gravatar
Simperium
Code Poet
WordPress.com VIP
Longreads
WordPress.org
WP for iOS
WP for Android
P2 Theme
BuddyPress
bbPress
WordCamp SF
You are already familiar with some of these products if you blog on WordPress, but there is so much more.
Find out more at www.automattic.com
WordPress for iOS 4.0.3
Stats
Just found this to be interesting …
Nothing more … nothing less
Darn you!
Darn you, WordPress for iOS 4.0.1
Darn you to heck!
Arrrgggghhhhh!!!!!!
UPDATE
Fixed by WordPress for iOS 4.0.2
Released 15 Apr 2015
I’m playing whack-a-mole
I’m playing whack-a-mole
WordPress for iOS
Is just like whack-a-mole
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First: Dates saved based on Time Zone offset, so when ever I edited a post the time regressed. Eventually the date changed and all my links broke.
Then: I learned about scheduling. This was a workaround because I could change the date.
Next: WP released an update that fixed the time offset problem. I got used to future scheduling.
Then: The Preview functionality stopped working. It coincidentally stopped working about the time we all started getting Invalid Certificate warnings.
So: I found a workaround
https://contrafactual.com/2014/04/07/iphone-app-previewcert-error/
Now: I can no longer schedule posts for the future. All my posts are Immediate. The scheduling feature is what I use to space out my posts. The option is still there … It just doesn’t work. 😦
iPhone App Preview/Cert Error
UPDATE
Fixed by WordPress for iOS 4.0.2
Released 15 Apr 2015
WORKAROUND
Scheduling
Every cloud has a sliver lining
I’m not talking about the cloud, I’m talking about real clouds … metaphorically. Bad things can have positive aspects.
Someone stole all my wife’s credit cards. But I haven’t reported it because he’s spending less than she did.
OK, it’s an old joke. No one stole my wife’s credit cards.
The cloud in question is the problems I documented in previous blogs concerning the 3.9 release of Automattic’s iPhone App.
In learning to compensate for the timestamp issue, I discovered scheduling.
Now that 3.9.1 is out, I am using it heavily. I have already scheduled through TNW – Day 45 every Sunday into the future.
I can also schedule in the future, save, and preview seeing it exactly how it will be … without your ever seeing it until I have discovered every last typo (well in theory at least).
I am writing this at 10:30 PM CST (UTC -6) on February 12, but it will post as shown below.
WordPress for iOS
Using an iPad or iPhone to maintain you site? Using the iOS app?
http://ios.wordpress.org is the site for you. Check out the blog and the forums.
You will (may?) need to create a separate account for the .org site. At least I did, but then again it recognizes me as ‘cb’ and displays my Gravitar.
This site saved my sanity
cb
Posted Timestamp Issue to WordPress for iOS
This issue has been fixed in 3.9.1
http://ios.wordpress.org/2014/02/12/wordpress-for-ios-3-9-1-released/
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If interested you may follow at:
http://ios.forums.wordpress.org/topic/timestamp-regression-on-update?replies=1#post-11606
If you are reading this …
This issue has been fixed in 3.9.1
http://ios.wordpress.org/2014/02/12/wordpress-for-ios-3-9-1-released/
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… You can help!
Read the previous post or the previous several posts. Every time I update a post, the timestamp gets reset to an earlier time. Update enough and it gets reset to an earlier day – this changes the URL and breaks retrospective links.
Would you please repeat my steps, just update a post several times (add space, add a word, delete a word) and note the time stamp. If it changes, reply to this post.
Am I the only one having this problem?
Must have scotch …
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This issue has been fixed in 3.9.1
http://ios.wordpress.org/2014/02/12/wordpress-for-ios-3-9-1-released/
I am happy 🙂
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After documenting to my own satisfaction … and hopefully to your satisfaction … I need scotch. Smoky not chill filtered, no coloring added, single malt scotch.
Being unable to go back and edit my previous posts puts the kibosh on my ability to tidy up and standardize various grammatical aspects.
I am sad 😦
Mmmmm scotch
Ongoing WP Problems
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This issue has been fixed in 3.9.1
http://ios.wordpress.org/2014/02/12/wordpress-for-ios-3-9-1-released/
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I am editing and updating Timeline, my previous post. Today is February 2nd, but after my last update of Timeline it shows up as February 1st!
Wash, rinse, repeat
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This issue has been fixed in 3.9.1
http://ios.wordpress.org/2014/02/12/wordpress-for-ios-3-9-1-released/
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Ok so I deleted Version 3.9 and I re-downloaded from the Apple iPhone App Store
The post was created @ 11:41 PM February 3rd 2014
1st update @ 11:44 PM 2014/02/03
Kill all Apps and relaunch the WP App. View the stats
2nd update at @ 11:53 2014/02/03
Note the change in the timestamp
3rd update @ 11:55 2014/02/03
4th update @ 11:56 2014/02/03
Note the date change. This will change the URL
5th update @ 11:58 2014/02/03
Note the post order has now changed
6th update @ 12:03 2014/02/04
Prior to the 7th save the URL for this post is
https://contrafactual.com/2014/02/02/wash-rinse-repeat/
8th update @ 12:09 2014/02/04
After the 8th update the URL is now
https://contrafactual.com/2014/02/01/wash-rinse-repeat/
I hope that this clearly shows the issue I am seeing
😦
Troubleshooting
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This issue has been fixed in 3.9.1
http://ios.wordpress.org/2014/02/12/wordpress-for-ios-3-9-1-released/
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In 42 days of Pain and WordPress iPhone App FAIL I describe the problem I am having with the latest WordPress iPhone App by Automattic (Version 3.9, January 30, 2014)
Step 1
I go to Contrafactual and choose Menu > Topics and chose Day 46
This is the URL
https://contrafactual.com/2013/10/08/day-46/
Next I use the iPhone App to edit and publish Day 46
I click on Menu > Topics and chose Day 46
No problem ???
So let me go thru all of Menu > Topics and see what links are broken
Broken links: Day 42, Day 51, Day 52, Day 53
All posts I edited on Friday January 31
Below are the URLs for the above posts
Original https://contrafactual.com/2013/07/11/hzv-day-42/
Current https://contrafactual.com/2013/07/10/hzv-day-42/
Original https://contrafactual.com/2013/12/10/day-51/
Current https://contrafactual.com/2013/12/09/day-51/
Original https://contrafactual.com/2013/12/17/day-52/
Current https://contrafactual.com/2014/01/26/day-52-2
Original https://contrafactual.com/2014/01/29/day-53/
Current https://contrafactual.com/2014/01/27/day-53/
So, yesterday updates posted to a different URL, but today there are no apparent problems. ?????
Cue Rod Serling …
Look at the time stamp on Troubleshooting below. I published this at 3:28 PM
Followed by this
42 Days of Pain
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This issue has been fixed in 3.9.1
http://ios.wordpress.org/2014/02/12/wordpress-for-ios-3-9-1-released/
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In my previous post, I described the problem I having with the latest Version 3.9, January 30, 2014 release of the WordPress iPhone App.
When I go back to update older posts (in this case edits to the Day 42 / The Nudist War serialized novel), the update gets written to a new URL:
https://contrafactual.com/2013/07/11/hzv-day-42/ vs
https://contrafactual.com/2013/07/10/hzv-day-42/
This means that ALL of my links are now invalid. If you try to read the series you will get
Really annoying 😦
I am sure that Automattic will fix this, but it could be a while.
I have submitted a public question about this at:
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/iphone-app-39-saves-updates-to-a-different-url?replies=1
I don’t know if this is an iPhone-specific problem or more widespread, but if you edit an older post and the URL changes you now know why.
cb
WordPress iPhone App FAIL
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This issue has been fixed in 3.9.1
http://ios.wordpress.org/2014/02/12/wordpress-for-ios-3-9-1-released/
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The latest WordPress iPhone App by Automattic (Version 3.9, January 30, 2014) writes update to the wrong folder.
For example the first entry of Day 42 (The Nudist War) has ALWAYS been located at:
https://contrafactual.com/2013/07/11/hzv-day-42/
After editing and saving it is now located at:
https://contrafactual.com/2013/07/10/hzv-day-42/
Arrrrrgggghhhh
I discovered this after going back and editing earlier posts.
I thought the post had disappeared until I did a search on Day 42.
Next step … Contacting Automatic 😦
Contrafactual 