pidge

I moved this topic off to Zoundry in case it is not related to WP. See https://forums.zoundry.com/viewtopic.php?p=835

Rok, sorry if anyone at Z had not responded. Generally we respond to all emails unless its caught in a spam filter in our end or in the recipient’s (e.g. yours) end. If you still have those message, you can send them to support [a t] zoundry (dot) com.

Piggy,
I am baffled as well! Not good especially if I just put out an announcement wrt 1.0 release ??

(on my tests it works for WP 1.5, 1.5.1.3, 1.5.2, and 2.0).

Which version of WP are you using? I will test it against it to make sure a post is published. If it is an issue with our app, I’ll take this thread offline (i.e. if it is not related to WP).

Also which plug-ins are you using? (since plug-ins and other filters can modify the content).

– pidge

Piggy,
Just tried it (wp 1.52 and 2.0) and it worked. Did you have the “Publish as draft” checked (on the publish dialog).

I’ll also try it with another version of WP.

Why not use the metaweblog API newPost method and pass in the appropriate fields (title and date). Here is a link to the MT API

https://jeremy.zawodny.com/~jzawodn/mt/docs/mtmanual_programmatic.html

(I could not find the original doc at SA website).

The dateCreated param takes ISO 8601 date.

Have you considered asking your users to use a offline desktop editor – most have a WYSIWYG editor.

I can’t think of a specific reason why one should not use an offline editor – especially considering your target audience. I am not too familiar with the editor that ships with WP to comment on it.

List of offline editors can be found here:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Weblog_Client

Try setting up Qumana to use MovableType API (in case you were using Metaweblog API). The MovableType api should support extended text entries.

Doodlebee,

Thanks for the response re: a reason. (I thought it may have been a due to a technical issue).

There are some theories out there (can’t remember where I read it), but using structural mark up seems to help in the SEO side (easy for the crawler/indexer code to interpret your content, maybe?). Also helps with validation and non-traditional browsers/webpage readers (i.e. for Accessibility such as for the visually impaired)

Like you said, modifying the style sheet is a good option. The newlines are converted in the wpautotp function (as ebusiness pointed out). One could modify that function to use div tags. (to wrap newlines).

Better yet, add a new plug-in that converts all para tags to div tags (not sure if one exists) during presentation.

Just out of curiosity, why would want to remove the markup (e.g. ) added (via hooks) by WP the_content() ?

If your posts are plain text (i.e no links or other html content), then you can use MS Word Save-As-Text and use one of WP’s bulk import functions.

If you need to preserve the formatting, then it might be a bit of a longer process. In this case, you should use MS Word’s Save-As-Filtered-Html file option and save your Word content as a html file.

Once you have the html file, you can:
1) Open the html file in IE or Firefox and copy/paste the relevant content to WP Admin rich text editor or paste to an offline editor such as Zoundry Blog Writer (that us).

2) Open the html file directly from an offline editor and post to WP.

3) Or, copy & paste directly from MS Word to an offline editor. I know Zoundry should attempt to clean up some of the MS Word/Office html markup.

The only downside is, the offline (desktop) client apps do not have a “bulk” upload functionality. So, you might have to do on a per post basis.

A list of desktop clients can be found here:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Weblog_Client

(or Zoundry – https://zoundry.com/software.html)

For quick posts, the online editor works really well. If you post long entries composed over a few days, then offline editor works well. An offline editor is also useful if you want to manage posts from multiple blogs; use as a offline backup tool; and if you spend a lot of time writing/tweaking in xhtml (as oppposed to strictly wysiwyg) i.e. a better xhtml editor. Our app, Zoundry (v.1.0)provides most of the features used for offline editing including a validating xhtml source editor

https://forums.zoundry.com/viewtopic.php?t=108

Weblog pinging, tagging (except for inline tagging) supported by offline editors may not be very useful with WordPress since WordPress supports this (afaik) natively.

– pidge (Zoundry)

Hi,
Not sure if Zoundry will meet all your requirements (well definetely not the bulk upload option) – but you could give it a try. Ver 1.0 preview is available here:

https://forums.zoundry.com/viewtopic.php?t=108

It should have most of the features you were looking for as well as a validating xhtml source editor and real multi blog manager. That is create/update/delete on a single document which is posted to multiple sites. (the single post is mapped to the multiple sites – so that you do not have to edit/update ‘copies’ of the post at each site when ever you make a change).

User guide (for 0.9, so it is a bit of date) can be found here:
https://www.zoundry.com/userguide/userguide.html

Hope this helps!
Pidge (Zoundry).

There are some links to xml-rpc API at the WP codex site:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/XML-RPC_Support

If you are looking for a desktop client to post to WP using xml-rpc API, see:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Weblog_Client

FeedDemon looks great, and Bloglines too. Unfortunately neither can post directly to WP! Does anyone have a desktop solution that can do this?

Maxxed,
Did you mean something equivalent to “Blog This” i.e. respond to an article your reading by posting to your blog ? FeedDaemon does not directly support this, but you can configure FeedDaemon use a helper application (a desktop blog editor) to do this. (so, its a two-app solution)

Zoundry Blog Writer (https://www.zoundry.com). Its still in beta. Its also free!

Hi,
We have a free wintel desktop posting tool called Zoundry BlogWriter. Our application is designed to support UTF-8, though I’ll admit we have not done extensive testing on non US/English wintel installations. I would love to get some feedback from you on how the app work with the Japanese char set i.e. works, breaks, crashes etc.

We started to support WP begining this month – so the app is still undergoing testing (wrt WP).

Free download and other info can be found at out web site:
https://www.zoundry.com

If you do try it out and come across any non-WordPress issues, pls post to our Zoundry Forums.

Thanks.