#wordpress 2022-02-15

2022-02-15 UTC
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GWG While waiting to write the next webmention PR went back to bookmarks....added a bulk action that allows you to select several bookmarks to turn into a digest post.
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GWG Good note to rest on
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king free money
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[pfefferle] [dshanske] I re-added a simple error handling
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[pfefferle] Can you have a look and fix the WP-handler (and add the tests) in the simple request branch? Or do you prefer a dedicated PR for your change?
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GWG [pfefferle]: I will have a look, I might fix but do a separate PR for tests as I originally intended.
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GWG [pfefferle]: The SonarCloud tester found a bug with WP that should be fixed.
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[pfefferle] I think I broke it completely 😓
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GWG [pfefferle]: I thought my push fixed it
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[pfefferle] Haven't seen it
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GWG [pfefferle] Didn't you merge the PR? I updated it with fixed
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GWG fixes
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[pfefferle] Haven't seen it before the merge 😉
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GWG Oh...
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GWG You changed a variable name but left the old one in a place
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GWG You changed the name of a property to response but left the signature as request
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GWG Nothing large
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[metbril] I switched hosting providers and since notice that syndication links plugin is not working as expected. When I post a note and publish to twitter with bridgy, nothing happens. When I paste another note without publishing, the earlier note is sent to bridgy, and the backfeed sends a web mention to that post. What could be wrong / out of sync and how to fix this?
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GWG I could ask you to try some troubleshooting techniques
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[metbril] That's fine.
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[metbril] What would you suggest me doing
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[snarfed] [metbril] looking at your recent publish attempts on https://brid.gy/twitter/robertvanbregt#publishes , I only see one failure, which was that https://robertvanbregt.nl/2022/02/15/5199/ didn't have a link to https://brid.gy/publish/twitter , and then you added that link and retried and it succeeded
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[metbril] [snarfed] correct. I was testing and deleted posts and tweets.
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[metbril] Thing is, that the syndication links plugin sends to bridgy at the next post, and not at immediately when publishing the post. This was working yesterday with my previous host. I copied the database and files to the other host and experiencing issues since. Everything else looks good to me.
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[snarfed] got it. I'll defer to GWG then
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GWG It does it about 5 seconds later, because it uses the publish do_pings hook
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[metbril] @GWG it doesn't unfortunately. I explicitly need to publish another post to trigger bridgy for the previous one.
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[metbril] Yesterday, when I published a post, I could immediately see the syndication link after publishing and then opening the new post from the admin panel.
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[metbril] There's definitely something wrong with the database. I tried with the old copy of the installation on a different domain and a spare twitter account.
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[metbril] I deleted all tables and imported the sql from the backup again. Same issue.
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[metbril] The old environment shows a 5 sec delay as GWG mentioned but the new one has the issue mentioned. Weird. Is there any way I can debug this?
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GWG Well, I have a few ideas.
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GWG Few choices...I can add a way to manually trigger it...the only reason publishing wouldn't trigger is a wp-cron issue, I suppose
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GWG A manual check wouldn't help figure out the automatic issue though
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GWG The way the feature works is...when you click the button, it adds the syndicate-to property to the post meta.
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GWG Then when the do_pings function is triggered, which is on publish, it goes through all posts that have that property and sends the syndication
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GWG There was a time in the past I switched it to send on publish directly, but it created a problem because of things triggered on publish needing a second to finish first. Webmentions also triggers the same way
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[metbril] Would extending the delay from 5 to 20 seconds help debugging? If you point me to the source line, I could try that myself, first.
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GWG Not really. We had similar problems sometimes with webmentions triggering in the same way. I suppose I could register a cleanup function that ran periodically, but it wouldn't run every few seconds.
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[metbril] I tried changing this line from 5 to 15:
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[metbril] The first post didn't do anything, the second triggered publishing the first immediately (I feel in less than 5 seconds).
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[metbril] ``` wp_schedule_single_event( $timestamp + 5, 'syn_syndication', array( $post_ID, $syndicate_to ) );```
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[metbril] I've also tried deleting and re-installing both the Webmention and Syndication Links plugin, no effect.
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GWG It wouldn't do anything...that line only gets triggered on a retry
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[metbril] I'm still wondering if an export/import from a sql file could have caused this or if this has to do with my new webhoster and/or php settings.
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[metbril] I'm out of options atm. But would gladly receive any suggestions.
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GWG I'll have to think on it. I will put in a manual refresh at the least, but not a long term solution