allanriddle

Thank you for investigating the problem. I looked at the link you sent, and reduced my image to the recommended 1080×1080 pixels, which resulted in an image file size of 1.2mb instead of the original 3mb. The post still failed to post to Instagram. So I went ahead and dropped the quality of the image, to a file size of 600k, and updated the WP Post with this image, and it succeeded in posting to Instagram. I will have to fiddle with this to find the best quality at this size that will post successfully to all social sites, but at least now I know where the issue lies.

Thank you very much for your assistance and have a wonderful day!
Cheers,
~Allan

I just tried again, for the third or fourth time to share a post to Instagram, and it failed. Only trying to share it to Instagram, since this is the one social site that has failed out of the 6 social sites, for the last post I have made.

First attempt succeeded to Facebook and Twitter, Second attempt made it to Pinterest, Bloglovin’ and Tumblr, and Third & Fourth attempts were just Instagram alone and it has failed both times, or 4 times total.

This is the post: https://ayamenakamura.com/keep-looking-up/

I appreciate your time in checking on this.

P.S. I use roughly 10 or less hashtags (post tags that get converted) on any of my posts. I am also not posting a bunch of posts, in quick succession. So I doubt this is an issue. And since it worked perfectly the first few times, then started all of this, it seems more likely that there is some kind of broken buffering, or an issue with the Blog2Social server?

I have to assume these posts are going to Blog2Social, and Blog2Social is posting them, since the original configuration was granting Blog2Social permission to post to all of these social sites. That and since I know Facebook requires a lot of jumping through hoops for an individual to automate posting to their site, I am guessing these are routing through Blog2Social’s approved Facebook App ID.

So is there some kind of overload on Blog2Social’s server that is causing the plugin to timeout while waiting on confirmation, then showing “Your post could not be posted”, and some of the posts, in buffer on your server, get lucky and get posted?

I still think the plugin is excellent in it’s design and functionality, but ultimately useless if it doesn’t work, or is unreliable. I appreciate any assistance you can give. Thank you!

I think what you are looking for is the ! (not).

I don’t have a lot of experience working with this plugin but from what I read on other forums, to achieve this kind of functionality you would simply use:

!is_page(‘home’)

This should make the widget show on all pages except the home page. You can link conditionals together like:

!is_page(‘home’) AND !is_page(‘contact’)

to exclude the widget from those two pages and still show on the rest of the site. so the !=NOT and reverses the conditional.