Mexxxi

I hear ya and I agree. While it may look like coercion, I truly like your plugin a lot. Thank you for your hard work and keep it up. My review has just been posted ??

Thank you for your reply.

Sorry that it didn’t work. There are probably a few more variables that need to be force fed some values. Unfortunately, I can’t do anything about that.

Hey shippy,

so you’re able to click the checkboxes and re-publish the article, but no posts are being generated on your social networking sites? I experienced this problem a few times with the vanilla version of Jetpack, so you should try it more than once (in case you haven’t) just in case the problem is on Jetpack’s end. In any case, you should reload/re-open the page after setting it to draft and saving it. So it should be loaded as a draft, then the rest should work as expected.

If this doesn’t work then I’m at a loss. Could be that you have made some modifications or other may be other plugins interfere. You’re using the most recent version of Jetpack, don’t you?

Hi jlaks,

thanks for the heads up. Jeremy already commented on this issue in another thread months ago. This is no feature that needs to be added since Jetpack is already fully capable of publishing posts to social networking sites.

All they need to do is to remove the two simple checks. The fact that they implemented them in the first place is a clear sign that they don’t want Jetpack to behave in a different way, so why would they remove them? Plenty of people have complained about this over the last months and nobody cared to remove those checks.

So I wouldn’t hold my horses for that in the future, let alone expect a more varied implementation that gives the user more control over publishing old posts, or even mass publishing.

You’re welcome ??

Hey guys,

sure I can share my modification. Go to wp-content/plugins/jetpack/modules/publicize/ui.php.

Comment out:

$all_done = get_post_meta( $post->ID, $this->publicize->POST_DONE . 'all', true ) || ( $this->in_jetpack && 'publish' == $post->post_status );

and place the following line below it:

$all_done = false;

Now comment out:

$service_id_done = (array) get_post_meta( $post->ID, $this->publicize->POST_SERVICE_DONE, true );

And insert the following line below it:

$service_id_done = false;

This will disable the checks whether a post has already been published.
The publicize checkboxes in already existing articles will become clickable again. However, to publicize already published posts, you’ll need to change the status of your article to “Draft”, save it (better reload the page) and then you’ll be able to publicize the article. You can rinse and repeat as much as you like.

This is a dirty solution though. It takes quite a while to publicize older articles this way, so this is only helpful if you publish each article to a bunch of social networks. Otherwise you might be faster posting each article manually to the social networking website of your choice. Also, be aware that your changes to ui.php will be overwritten with the next jetpack update, so if you want to keep this functionality, you’d have to incorporate the changes with functions.php of your (child) theme.

Thank you very much for your quick reply. I’ll be following the progress and hope for some improvement in the future.

On a personal note, I read your blog and found it to be very interesting, plus I like your style of writing ??

I think you need to be a VIP-member to make use of this code snippet:

WordPress.com VIP clients can customize which shortlink Publicize uses, when Publicize shares to which accounts, and other behavior changes using standard filters.

Alternatively, you could try changing your post status to draft and see if it gets published.

Indeed. Actually, Jetpack went out of their way to actually avoid giving the user the option, because without the checks you could republish an article any time ??

This is especially useful when you decide to join a social network much later in time and thus need a way to publish your content you already have.

This is not supported by Jetpack. A couple of months ago I had the same request. In the end I had to modify Jetpack manually to make it work. Back then, I asked to include this as a feature. May be if more people request it, it will be added as an option one day.

For now, just comment out all the checks for the article’s post status and you should be set.

Thank you for your reply.

I’m pretty sure that many people would appreciate it if Publicize wasn’t that restrictive, especially seeing that WordPress VIP offers a code snippet to its users that allows them to republicize without much hassle with the press of a button.

Keep up the good work ??

By now I managed to modify the plugin to allow me to publicize already written posts.

I understand why you wouldn’t want to allow to replublicize already publicized posts, but if I decide a year from now to use Google+, I don’t want to start out with an empty page while sitting on a nicely filled blog.