Guest Blogger: FAQ
Aug 30th, 2009 by BoB
What does the error message mean “cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403″?
This error message indicates EzineArticles.com blocking the search request from your IP address. This is likely due to high volume of searches from your IP (especially in a shared hosting environment) or EzineArticles server being too busy. This is an temporary error which will go away once in a while, and returns from time to time.
Why does the plugin stop posting articles?
EzineArticles.com’s TOS specifies that you should not post more than 25 articles per year. If you believe that you still comply with the TOS, you can reset the counter “Clear Counter” at the bottom of the page. The plugin will post another 25 articles before suspending.
If you schedule is 30 days per article, you can turn off the article counting entirely.
Why does the “Last Post” and “Total Posts” counters inaccurate?
This is a problem of the Wordpress plugin option page. Click on “Settings -> Guest Blogger” should refresh the counters.
Why there is no article being posted ?
This Firstly, you can try to check if there’s any article that matches your keywords. To do so, you can click on “Check Article” on your task row.
Secondly, by its nature, the wp-cron doesn’t fire on time, but by visitors. So you can force it to post the article right away, by clicking “Post Now” along the same task row.
Thirdly, it may be your hosting company blocking out-going HTTP. Although this is unlikely, but still possible.
If you’re out-going HTTP works from your hosting server, it must be a bug. Please let me know.
What is this warning, and how to fix it?
Warning: unserialize() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in (states local file path ending:) /wp-content/plugins/guest-blogger/guestblogger.php on line xxx
A few users reported this warning message. I cannot reproduce the bug in my environments. My suspecion is that your site got a corrupted option value which caused the problem.
The solution is to manually set the value of ‘guestblogger_tasks’ in http://yourblog.com/wp-admin/options.php to empty.
This will remove all you existing configured tasks and you can start again.
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August 27th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Spaces between keywords
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Bob, thanks for such a nice plugin. I’ve been looking for such function for a long time. unfortunately recently i observe a “No article found for the specified keywords” remark. eventhough there are tons of articles available when i click on the “check” menu. in one of my site i manage to get it running. but seriously i dont know how i did it. i can give you details if you want. just give me your email. thanks
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I saw in ver 1.4.3 there was a fix added to take care of the 403 error. I’m running WP3.0.3 but getting that error myself. Is it a known issue or perhaps there is a workaround?
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I got this massage with any keyword cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403
Pls help
Keywords are –Rid, Depression, How to, stand
when i ckeck post i see thousands of articles but i am not able to grab single
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January 20th, 2011 at 2:22 pm
Please see http://wealthynetizen.com/guest-blogger-faq/
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Hi,
There is this theme that has inbuilt comment rating plugin. It was working fine for some days but now its stopped working. I tried most of the tricks and advices i found here but in vain.
Could someone or the developer please help me?
Here is the url of site: http://answercastle.com
Any help or advice would be appreciated.
Thank You.
Vish
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