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Comment on Wordpress Plugin: Mass Page Maker by Kevin McGillivray

Kevin McGillivray — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:49:55 +0000

@wesg: The problem was very easy to reproduce. I just followed your instructions with your sample data on a vanilla WP 2.9. installation. If you’re not able to reproduce it, let me know and I’ll run through it again.

The truth is, though, I had to scrap plans to use your plugin in the middle of the night last night. What I found was that it was truncating the content of the posts and roughing up the formatting in some weird ways like stripping escape characters out of carriage return/new line commands. I didn’t have time to diagnose the formatting and it was only loading about 150-200 words, not the entire 500-700 words in the pages. So, I had to drop it. It’s a shame because this looked like exactly what I needed.

Comment on Wordpress Plugin: Mass Page Maker by wesg

wesg — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:50:53 +0000

@Kevin McGillavray: Thanks for the valuable information! I’ve heard many comments about this problem, and would like to solve it. Could you provide some more information about how you recreated the error? The more info I can get, the easier it will be to fix. Email anything to w [at] wesg [dot] ca. Thanks!

Comment on Wordpress Plugin: Mass Page Maker by bosshawk

bosshawk — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:37:28 +0000

This is great. I will definitely give it a try. Seems like it has everything but the Thumbnail feature in Wordpress 2.9? I have thumbnails uploaded to Media Library. How do I set thumbnail to each post using this plugin? I will definitely donate if you can solve this. Thank you.

Comment on Wordpress Plugin: Mass Page Maker by Kevin McGillivray

Kevin McGillivray — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:03:42 +0000

Hi, all. I saw a few people mention 404 errors after uploading content via this plugin. I had the same problem and was unable to get any of my uploaded pages to publish without opening and resaving them. The problem was highly reproducible and was a pain considering I had over 100 pages to create. I’m running the latest plugin on WordPress 2.9.2.

So, I saw the references to cron up above and starting looking at how to solve my problem. In the end, here’s what you can try:

1) Create the upload file as described above.
2) Date your records/pages with past dates
3) Date the LAST record in the upload file with a date in the future. Preferably about 10 minutes in the future so you have long enough to complete the upload but don’t have to wait forever to continue.
4) Upload the file as described above. You’ll notice the articles appear in WP Admin and that the last post is marked “Scheduled”.
5) Wait until 10 minutes have passed.
6) Browse the HOME PAGE of your site. I think this causes WP cron to run.
7) The pages should show up in the menu (if they weren’t already there) and you should be able to browse them without a 404 error.
If you get a 404 error, check the article that was schedule for future publication. It might say “Missed Schedule” next to it. If so, browse http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-cron.asp then go back to the page that was giving you the 404. The pages should work now.

In my case, I had it happen both ways. Once I had to browse wp-cron the other time not; but in both cases, the pages would 404 immediately after upload.

I hope this helps save some other poor sucker the hours I’ve spent chasing this issue down.

Have a good one!
Kevin

P.S. @wesg This plugin rocks (or at least it should). I started looking at it because inserting pages directly into the database using SQL wasn’t working. I was having the same problem where pages showed in the menu but gave me a 404. There must be something that WordPress is doing to the data when it’s saved that we don’t know about. At least it wasn’t obvious to me. Hope this info helps you with future updates. Thanks!

Comment on Use 1 database for 2 blogs with Wordpress 2.6 by wesg

wesg — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:09:31 +0000

@Nicholoas: Interesting thought! I suppose it could be built into a plugin, however you’d likely still have to run it after each Wordpress update, though a check can probably be built in. I’ll look into it!

Comment on Use 1 database for 2 blogs with Wordpress 2.6 by Nicholas

Nicholas — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:55:17 +0000

Could this ever be made into a plugin? I just don’t want to hack into the code and worry about the tweak every time I update the WP.

Comment on Wordpress Plugin: Mass Page Maker by Andrés Miranda

Andrés Miranda — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:26:22 +0000

Wesg I was looking for a solution of this style. But I never thought to find “something so perfect”.

I’m turn around on how to upload a specific image or document attached to each post or page ID (media library)

Comment on Wordpress Widget: Most Popular Posts by wesg

wesg — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:40:35 +0000

@Brook Lenox: I’ll look to get another tutorial online shortly. Thanks for the comment!

Comment on Wordpress Widget: Most Popular Posts by dilek

dilek — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:00:33 +0000

Perfect plug-in and works without problem. Thank you very much.

Comment on Wordpress Widget: Most Popular Posts by Brook Lenox

Brook Lenox — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:58:41 +0000

Hi…also is there somewhere it explains how to use the formatting options (parent list item class, child UL class, list item class).

I’m clueless here. Thanks!!!

Brook