Wordpress plugin: Guest Blogger
Aug 24th, 2009 by Bob King
A recent change to EzineArticles search result page caused Guest Blogger not being able to find any related articles. Please upgrade to version 1.5.x. Nov. 2nd, 2010.
When you’re going to be on vacation, or you’re simply out of your wits on a certain subject that you know your readers are expecting, you may want to invite an expert guest blogger.
Guest Blogger plugin helps you by simplifying the process of finding a guest blogger, searching for an interesting post and creating a guest account.
The plugin searches the well respected EzineArticles database in relevant subjects and creates a draft so that you can put in your editorial before posting.
You can choose to auto-create a guest blogger account in your Wordpress blog with the original author’s details. The guest blogger role is controlled by Wordpress “New User Default Role” (under “General Settings”, normally set to “Subscriber”).
When searching for a guest post, you can specify the keywords of the desired subject. Searching criteria can be refined with
- Matching criteria: exact match, broad match, or match any words.
- Fields to be searched: in article title, body, author name, or keyword.
- Category: all category, category or sub-category.
These criteria narrows down the most relevant potential guest posts.
The plugin also support compliance checking with EzineArticles’ Terms of Service, i.e. you cannot quote more than 25 articles per year, by keeping a counter of quoted posts and suspending searching in case of exceeding the limit.
Download:
Guest Blogger is free and licensed under GPLv3. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
You can download the latest version here.
i get Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error. Guest Blogger requires PHP 5 and cURL to work. when i try to activate the plugin. i am running the latest version of wordpress. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!
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wealthynetizen.com Reply:
August 24th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Ben,
The plugin does require PHP 5 and Curl. Most hosting company support both Php5 and 4 for free. You just need to choose the right package. Php4 is being phased out. So the upgrade will help you run other plugins.
Bob
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August 24th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Ben,
I think the code is largely backward compatible to php version 4.0.6, still with cURL support. I change the version checking in version 1.3.2. Please give a try and let me know how it goes.
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Works great, thank you
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Very useful. Now I can go on vacations
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Hey man, this is better than the premium plugin I got. It works like a charm. Thanks for reminding us of the TOS. Got to observe that.
I’m grateful that you give awy this great work. Thanks so much.
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Hi Bob, thanks for this plugin. I installed and activated it, saved a task with a keyword etc. but nothing happens. is there anything i missed? thanks, Guy
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September 7th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Guy,
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.
If this still doesn’t work, it must be a bug. Please let me know.
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It could be missing cURL installation, or hosting company block out-going HTTP. Let me at the cURL testing and you can try it again.
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Thanks Bob,
I am not familiar with the term cURL…
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September 8th, 2009 at 8:16 am
Guy, I just put in version 1.3.8. Please give a try and let me know how it goes.
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Thanks. Upgraded but no change. when i click on post it just doesn’t do anything. does it have anything to do with me using Google Chrome?
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September 9th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Can you check the web server error log to see if any error showing up when running “Post Now”.
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I havent got a clue how to get to the server error log… thanks anyway for your help.
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Hi Bob, I am happy to inform you that now the plugin works and it’s so cool… thanks again.
If you plan on having a new version anytime soon, here’s a feature for your consideration – ability to filter articles by original publish date. Most of the articles i got on my keywords were from 2005-6 and are no longer relevant. it’d be awesome if you could make it happen. Thanks, Guy
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September 15th, 2009 at 7:22 am
This most likely have to do with ISP setup. For those which doesn’t work, can you get a print out of phpinfo.php?
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September 15th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
gbrenner, I’ve put in more PHP setup test in version 1.3.9. Please give it a try and let me know the result on your hostgator accounts. Thanks.
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Hey Bob,
I did update and passed the php checks but still having the same issue. Everything goes as it should until I “post” the articles (10) as drafts or published and it refreshes in about 3 seconds or so with no new articles. Like I said in the previous comment it is working on other HG servers I use. BTW I did check my error log and it does not show any errors for the domain I am trying to post to.
Thanks for your efforts. I am using this successfully on many of my blogs and hope to use it more soon
Gbrenner
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it was working fine, but now it is posting empty article 1.3.8 version. I only publich 50 articles over 2 days.
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October 18th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
A format change at EzineArticles caused the problem. Please update to version 1.4.0.
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G’Day Bob,
I like, I have this set up and running but am only using draft mode right now as I have had GuestBlogger pull up the same article 4 times in a row. I am trying settings further apart than 1 day to see if that improves the situation.
The ability to order posts by popularity, oldest, youngest, most viewed, least viewed, author etc. would be useful. Not essential but certainly useful.
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October 8th, 2009 at 7:23 am
Guest Blogger does a title lookup in the database to avoid duplicated content. Let me see if draft post are checked.
I’ll take notes of the feature requests.
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Im having a strange problem, while it doesnt seem to work for me, never publishes or drafts any articles when it runs. What it does do though is, it makes the article writers members of my site without posting or drafting the articles they belong to
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October 8th, 2009 at 7:21 am
It indicates that the article is empty. Can you let me know your keyword and other setup? I’ll have a look.
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October 18th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Please update to version 1.4.0. A format change at EzineArticles caused the problem.
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When i installed the plug, as you know it runs a test to make sure you have all you need server side for the plug to work properly and it passed all the setup requirements.
When i did a test run, i did check to make sure that the keywords i used had some articles to bring over to my site, so no problem there. Ive tried different keywords, like inspirational, which producers a list of articles more than 5 pages worth, so not stuck for choice. Ive tried it on auto creating on author, even post as admin, ive tried it on draft, and on publish. Ive tried picking up articles from 1 to 50 per run, i wont be doing 50 again though on auto creating as it didnt publish any articles, but made 50 members all at once, must have scared my HG server and alerted something, because it shut my site down for 15mins probably thinking it was an injection attack or something “blah” LOL.
Ive really tried every option there is with the same results. The article writers become members but it doesnt bring the articles with them.
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Steve
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I am having the same problem of everything testing out ok but nothing is posting.
Here is the self test
———–BEGIN————
Installation Tests
PHP version test: Passed. Current version: 5.2.9
mbstring extension test: Passed.
PCRE extension test: Passed.
DNS test: Passed.
cURL extension test: Passed.
Safe mode: Disabled
Open Base Dir: Null
HTTP retrieval test: Passed.
WordPress version: Passed. Current version: 2.8.4
Very good! You are all set to go!
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Thanks,
Ed
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October 17th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Edward,
Can you let me know your search keyword so that I can have a look?
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October 18th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
I found out it’s a change at the EzineArticles search result format that render the plugin failing to find any article.
The fix is in version 1.4.0. Please update and let me know if this is still a problem.
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Hey, your plugin worked great, but after using to post around 10 articles (3 blogs), it stopped working (all the blogs), any reason why it would do that? I found it weird
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November 4th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
If you’re not using version 1.4.x, you need to upgrade.
If you’re using version 1.4.x, perhaps there are only 10 articles matching your criteria.
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I erased and uploaded the plugin again, and chose a very general term (car), but is not uploading the new posts.
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November 8th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
I just download it right now, I try making a post using the “loan” term, unfortunately, no posts, I use the check function for search and ezine articles is giving out an error
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Hi Bob.
I’ve just installed your Guest Blogger.
I’ve 2 question/comment:
1) It’s set to Auto create Author info – but all created with my admin email.
2) How do I invite an expert guest blogger?
Thanks
Fred
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November 15th, 2009 at 9:54 am
You invite expert bloggers by using their articles. Those articles are authorized to be used on your blog, as long as no changes are made. See EzineArticles.com’s Term and conditions.
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I’m think I’m asking the same question as Fred. Can I change the email address of the auto created users without worry that the plugin will create them again? Can in a future update can the plugin create unique email addresses. The php is pretty easy for that… just add the created nickname to the admin email… like nickname.admin@mysite.com or nicknameadmin@mysite.com
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November 15th, 2009 at 9:53 am
that’s a good point when Gravatar is being used. Let me look into this.
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November 17th, 2009 at 7:35 am
I made the change myself, and decided to share it for you next update. Look for the user_email field and change get_option(‘admin_email’) to $login.”_gb@domain.com”. It works.
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November 17th, 2009 at 8:26 am
Tim,
Thanks for sharing your changes. I just got around and added a more generic solution in version 1.4.3.
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Hi Bob. So if you’re saying that “Invite a guest blogger” means “coping” an article from EzineArticles website into my blog (which is what this plug-in does), then there is no “Invite a guest blogger” feature. Invite a guest blogger to me is, when I can invite someone as a “Guest Blogger” to write a blog/post –most likely a unique content-.
Forgive me for saying, but then this is an Article display plugin – which is obviously not a unique content -, but a copy of an existing article from another site. Or we just differ in the term of “Guest Blogger”. So, then I either misunderstood your plugin and its features or it somewhat misleading as it described.
Am I wrong?
Thanks. Fred
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November 15th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Your understanding is correct.
If you like, the author of the articles have put their work at EzineArticles.com and want to be “invited as a guest blogger”. Most people put in an editorial before publish, which makes it unique.
If you dont’ agree with this interpretation, I would have to create a guest blogger (ghost blogger) market place to satisfy your needs.
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Everything working fine except the Ezine categories aren’t populating the drop down. It just has All Categories. Am I doing something wrong?
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November 27th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
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November 27th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
had the file… trying deactivating and then reactivating and now categories are there. obviously poltergeists are involved.
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I’m seeing that there appears to be a 20 task limit. Can this be expanded. I’m targeting very specific keywords, many of which match only infrequently, so I need mor than 20 of them. Thanks. Also, one feature request is to be able to edit the task. Appears that the only option is to delete and resubmit the task. I’m sending a $20 donation because this is and excellent plugin and hoping the 20 task limit is removed.
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December 13th, 2009 at 9:31 am
Beth,
Thanks for your support. I wasn’t expect people need more than 20 tasks. Let me look into the issue.
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ps… that payment from jasbet is me.
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I like the plugin, but I notice it doesn’t pick up the author’s resource box. I thought that was also a condition of using an Ezine article? I write Ezine articles myself, and I’d be really pissed off if people took my article without the resource box, which is the whole point of me writing the article!
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February 1st, 2010 at 6:21 pm
I thought that the complete resource box was included before. I’m traveling at the moment and will take a look when I’m back in 2 weeks
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February 16th, 2010 at 11:19 pm
Hi Bob – just curious if you have any update on this? I can confirm that the author’s resource box is not included in the posts, which violates Ezine’s TOS. Thanks! (great plugin BTW)
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February 17th, 2010 at 8:54 am
Hi there, Thanks for the reminder.
I just came back from a long trip and will look into it in the next few days.
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February 17th, 2010 at 9:06 pm
Jon,
The Sig paragraph was there but lost due to a regular expression mismatch. It’s now fixed in version 1.4.4
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Am I to understand if we use this plugin, we can only post 25 articles PER YEAR? Hardly seems worth it. Just double checking. I never heard this about Ezine Articles. Can someone confirm this being true or false? Thanks guys/gals.
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Hey, BoB,
The feature I’d like to see is elimination of duplicates. That’s worth paying for. BTW, I think you’re crazy for giving this away free. This is a quality plugin and you should be selling it.
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February 19th, 2010 at 8:09 pm
Beth, thanks for the kind words. It’s too late to make it a premium plugin. If you think it’s good, please donate to support it.
The plugin already tries to avoid duplicates by checking for posts of the same title. Let me know if this doesn’t work.
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BoB, I’ve sent a donation and tell everyone I recommend the plugin to that they better make one too! I’m seeing duplicates with the same title.. am I doing something wrong?
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February 22nd, 2010 at 8:29 pm
Thanks Beth.
Unless there’s a bug in the code, posts with the same title should never happen.
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Thanks for the plugin. Maybe one day the option can be added, in addition to Ezine Article. That we are not a problem anymore with the restrictions on 25 articles
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Ya know.. this obsession about the 25 article restriction is kind of silly. BoB fulfilled the Ezinearticles TOS by providing the option to limit to 25 but it’s silly to be worried about this. Keep the author links and your good. Do you think the ezinearticle authors don’t want their articles on all of these sites? Of course they do! The 25 article limit doesn’t benefit them. The limit is solely for the benefit of the ezinearticles WEBSITE. So my advice is to not be a pollyanna and go build your business.
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It’s telling me it can’t find any articles but there are plenty on my topic. I just downloaded the newest version from WordPress.
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March 4th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
What’s the keyword do you use?
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March 4th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
I was using the business category and human resources sub category and used employment as a keyword. Tried again with the keyword blank and it still didn’t work.
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March 4th, 2010 at 11:06 pm
Try “All category”. It works for me.
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Hey thanks this WP PI works aces on both my blogs – awesome time saver!
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Awesome work
thanks a lot bob
a couple of feature requests if possible:
the ability to sort these fetched articles by date, in case we’re dealing with topics that require updated dfinances finance, stocks quotes, Dow jones price and recent market trend)
Also the ability to sort by popularity, rating, etc..
Now I’ll just go to the donate page. Thank you
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March 29th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
I second the request for a search criteria by date article was published. That would be very helpful.
Cheers – Anna
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Just trying this plugin as it solunds good — but getting 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 328
No posts so far … any tips?
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Anyone there? I note most replies same or next day. Still interested in receiving any advice to get plugin to work thanks.
Ben
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Thanks for the great plugin!
Is there a way to load up a bunch of articles and save them all as a “draft”? I’d like to be able to go through them all and make sure it’s relevant to my blog before posting.
- Bill
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Hi,
I am a bit confused about the Ezine Article Policy. If I am correct, we can only post 25 articles a year, if so what good is this for?
I am thinking 2 articles a month?
I would like someones opinion on this.
Thanks
Carlos
Ps.- Do you have any other autoposting methods that are real time, say from an RSS feed to my blog?
Let me know, Thanx
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I used Guest Blogger on my site, it is very good for free contents, now i days i facing a problem, it is not publishing any article while i upgrade version, can u guide me what is problem? and how i can solve it?
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Great plugin. Couple suggestions – variable first post time and editing existing entries. Thanks!
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I want my virtual assistant to be able to generate articles with Guest Blogger but I don’t want to make give them full ‘Administrator’ privileges. Does anyone know how I can create an “Editor” account within my WP Admin and make it so the only thing my “editor” can access under ‘Settings’ would be the settings page for Guest Blogger? Thank you very much.
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It would be great if in the next update you could add “Schedule” to the ‘New Post Status’ section.
Thanks for an awesome plugin!
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Hi there,
The auto author feature is not working, the new post are not picking up the name of the authors is just leaving the my name, “admin” on every post is this a known issue? it was working fine, but it just started doing that recently…Please help!
Thanks,
Henry
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May 23rd, 2010 at 11:11 am
I’ve gotten a couple new articles posted and it seems to be working fine now! Thanks!
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I just installed Guest Blogger and it doesn’t seem to let me change the settings to Draft and Current User…what am I doing wrong? Or is it because there are no articles yet??? Not sure what I’m doing…please help! It’s the latest version of 1.4.7
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OK, I added a task and now see some guests as subscribers..I changed 3 of them to author but no posts yet…
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Sorry to post again but now I see their posts!
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OK, I believe this plugin is now causing me not to be able to add tags…had to get rid of another plugin doing the same thing…any ideas??
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June 19th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Where did you get that idea?! Never heard of this problem can be possible with Guest blogger.
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My mistake, Bob…it was due to the fact that I had to downgrade back to WP 2.9.2 because 3.0 caused alot of problems. Anyway, it was not Guest Blogger and I did find a few articles that will be useful!
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Not sure why but the plugin I had for couple of months just stopped working no new posts are added and there should be plenty according to “check” option, any idea why? Is it compatible with latest wordpress 3.0 ?
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I’ve upgraded to 3.0 and am not having any problems with the plugin working.
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Must be something else then, I have few sites with guest blogger on them,still non of them work. Nothing changed on my server, the installation test is all good, no idea what could cause it to stop uploading new articles.
Installation Tests
* PHP version test: Passed. Current version: 5.2.13
* mbstring extension test: Passed.
* PCRE extension test: Passed.
* DNS test: Passed.
* cURL extension test: Passed.
* Safe mode: Disabled
* Open Base Dir: Null
* HTTP retrieval test: Passed.
* WordPress version: Passed. Current version: 3.0
Very good! You are all set to go!
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Im having the same prob too. It used to work perfectly but now it says it cant find any articles specific to the keyword.
Could it be the WP itself? Some of my other plugin like wordbook also stopped working. sigh.
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Hi,
I have already upgraded to version 1.4 but still having the same prob as above. It used to work perfectly fine until recently.
It says keywords not found in eZine Article.
Thanks for your help.
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Hi, I am trying the guest blogger and it does find articles for me though it doesn’t allow me to ‘choose’ one. However, it will not post. Checked my error log files and see nothing. Also tried on another blog I maintain with same host, Arvixe, same exact results. It finds content but will not post. Any suggestions?
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Last operation status: Search failed. The returned content as follows.
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403
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July 16th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
Which web hosting do you use?
Ezinearticles.com appears to block a range of IP address from HostGator.
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Vegas
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December 16th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
That sucks! Is that confirmed?
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December 23rd, 2010 at 1:23 am
Yes. But don’t despair. I try to find a way around the searching interface restriction.
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June 8th, 2011 at 9:02 am
very good to know. I’m trying proxy, will update whether it bypasses this. Thanks
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August 24th, 2011 at 4:32 pm
hi, I am getting the famous “cURL error: 7 Message: couldn’t connect to host” on sites on Bluehost. similar problem to HostGator or ??
Thanks!
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Thats interesting Bob because I use Hostgator and don’t have that issue. Actually its a 5 cpanel account with seohosting.com which is owned and operated by Hostgator (the seohosting.com account allows me to change IP Addresses between cpanels). Why do you think EZA might block them and not another?
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Hey Bob, forgot to ask this before but I really like your theme and was wondering if it was available?
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July 16th, 2010 at 11:12 pm
I’m glad you like my theme. Sorry it’s not available.
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Hello,
Then it is possible your script is configured incorrectly. The error you provided me was this:
Last operation status: Search failed. The returned content as follows.
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403
According to the plug-in author – ” Error 403 means Forbidden. So your
server’s IP address is in the block list of EzineArticle.com
Please notice our usage of Ezinearticle.com, not Ezinearticles.com
Kevin Sugihara
http://www.arvixe.com
Arvixe, LLC
is script off by the s at the end of ezinearticle?
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I am on dreamhost and have same error after the upgrade to 1.4.12
and of course no new articles uploaded. Can anyone confirm this script working?
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Apparently, I will have to give up on ‘guest blogger’ see response from Arvixe below since ezine doesn’t seem to like them or curl requests
Hello,
They have instituted this block on their end. In order to have it removed, you would have to contact them. Most likely, they are blocking cURL requests.
Kevin Sugihara
http://www.arvixe.com
Arvixe, LLC
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July 17th, 2010 at 4:36 pm
Hi, I am receiving the same error. I use Hostgator and only have one domain running Guest Blogger. I set up 1 task with 1 post per task and still receive the error…any ideas?
Thank you in advance,
Dave
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I keep getting this:
Last operation status: Search failed. The returned content as follows.
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403
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Hey, only 25 per year? Any way around that? I am just getting my blog started and could use the help. Also, there were sever repeat posts for my 25 and a couple of irrelevant posts. Hoping you can help me further.
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Hi
I have problem is
Last operation status: Search failed. The returned content as follows.
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403
Plaese help me!!
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It seems like this plug in has been blocked for good tried on 5 different hosts and each gives
Last operation status: Search failed. The returned content as follows. cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403
Shame this looked really good
if it ever starts working again please someone let me know
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There seems to be an issue, at least with WP 3.0
Posting works (as in article is posted) but it ends with an error:
Warning: mysql_real_escape_string() expects parameter 1 to be string, object given in /home/site/public_html/mydomain.com/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 785
That is causing the article to be posted with no author (plugin is set to generate author).
Any fix?
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August 27th, 2010 at 9:42 am
Thanks for reporting the error. I’ll take a look.
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I use hostgator as well and have attempted do use this product in various ways and it seems that I am getting this error regardless of the number of articles that it is set up for and regardless of the day expansion. I have sat and watched it perform and it seems to always come back to the same cURL error. As a technical programmer, project manager, and UNIX coder, it would seem to me the coding is now stuck into some sort of critical loop and it has nothing to do with what Ezine Articles can or cannot correct. It has to come from within the actual code itself. I have not been able to sit and actually look at the code due to my own PhD studies. Until this coding issue is resolved, the script will be removed. I do hope you can find the answer as the script does show promise in how it operates.
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August 27th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
I did not say the error was not real. My point was, a server code is built to maintain operations, period. Programmers and software developers must take that into consideration as they are at the will of the server operation, not the other way around.
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Have tried it on a new dedicated server account with a clean IP address and it still gives cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403
It does appear a coding issue and not something ezine articles is doing.
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I have tried the upgrade but its still the same result. I hope you can eventually get this working as it is a great idea.
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August 27th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
I added more diagnostics to track the error in version 1.4.14. This is a tough nuts to crack, as I cannot see it.
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August 27th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
I did discover one matter that might or might not be of help. The error did not begin appearing until Word Press started changing with their updates. Does that help?
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August 27th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
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Hi. This plugin works for one site but not the other two where I use it. The working site is on GoDaddy, the others on another private server. Does that make a difference?
I get this error (cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403) Would updating Wordpress to 3.0.1 make a difference? I have updated the plugins already. Thanks.
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August 30th, 2010 at 11:46 am
Thanks for a quick reply.
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I am seeing this same issue. I have a dedicated hosted server.
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September 2nd, 2010 at 8:48 am
Did you run over 500 search queries a day? EzineArticles.com automatically blocks IP which does that. The threshhold could be lower.
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Nope, this was just on initial install and configuration. The first query we ran gave us this error.
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September 3rd, 2010 at 12:36 pm
After some research and experiments, I found the error “cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403″ to be temporary. The IP blox is here one day and gone the next.
Just need a bit of patience.
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I still get the same error on all my sites? tried it daily for a while now. cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403 Finally time for me to give up on this one
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I also keep getting “cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403″ I had this script running fine a few months ago, but now it doesn’t work. I am using the latest version.
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hi,
I have one help. How to blog guest can add post with text,image and video. Is it any plugin available.
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Santhosh
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I have same error as reported by some1 else. “Warning: mysql_real_escape_string() expects parameter 1 to be string, object given in …….101.com/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 785″. It happens on a few blogs and using last guest blogger and wp 3.0.1. posts are added but with a blank author, not even admin is author, is just blank.
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Same problem as above – Warning: mysql_real_escape_string() expects parameter 1 to be string, object given in /home/rekommen/public_html/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 785
Warning: mysql_real_escape_string() expects parameter 1 to be string, object given in /home/rekommen/public_html/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 785.
how can I correct this?
thks
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Hi,
Keep getting this error when I click post although it is retrieving articles:
Warning: mysql_real_escape_string() expects parameter 1 to be string, object given in /home/thepetsp/public_html/attracionblog.com/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 785
Warning: mysql_real_escape_string() expects parameter 1 to be string, object given in /home/thepetsp/public_html/attracionblog.com/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 785
Warning: mysql_real_escape_string() expects parameter 1 to be string, object given in /home/thepetsp/public_html/attracionblog.com/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 785
Any idea what the problem is?
Thanks
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Great plugin, but ezinarticles.com have just chnaged the layout again so it’s stopped working. Simply needs a change to preg_match_all
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October 19th, 2010 at 9:49 am
Thanks for the update.
I’ll have a look and see what the problem is
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thanks for the update..this is a big help.
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So I love the ‘idea’ of the plug-in but the plug-in is not showing me the love. I followed the instructions (and all the php tests passed inclduing a ’self’ test) then I checked the APT (active posting tasks) and it shows them (the tasks) there – ready to go to draft – I’ve checked the ‘check articles’ link and there are pages available. But nothing is showing up in my drafts/publish. Is it something I am missing?
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October 19th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
Nothing a bit of patience doesn’t fix – feel free to delete comment and thank you for a very cool plug in! It will add value to our site when I have other deadlines to mee!
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October 19th, 2010 at 10:21 pm
Which version are you using? Anything below 1.5 should be broken due the ezine search format change.
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Hello Bob – great plugin!
How does the counter work?
I want to comply with the ToS. If I set disable counting to No will the plugin just stop after 25 posts and require manual intervention?
If I set the plugin to post every 14 days, I should not exceed the 25 limit per year, so will I have to set Disable Counting Articles to Yes to avoid having to login and reset after one year?
Thanks again – looks great!!
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October 20th, 2010 at 7:44 am
The counter is dumb, counting only the number of articles, never reset itself. I’ll consider this feature in the future, e.g. auto reset on Jan 1st.
If you post once per two weeks, you can simply disable the counter
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Can u please recommend private proxies to use here?
thks
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I have been waiting to see if whatever happened to this great pluggin got fixed with the updates. I have so far updated 3 times since the last time I was able to use it a couple of mnths ago. I ran the self test and everything is fine. Checked for matches: I got thousands of articles matching my keywords. Tried to force posting right away… Nothing happens. I got 5 blogs myself and my husband has a couple more and we are really wanting some help around here!
We would appreciate some guide to make it work!
Thanks!
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October 25th, 2010 at 7:14 am
What does the “Last Operating Status”?
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I’m having the problem of “no article found for the specified keywords”, even though I’ve downloaded the new version from here.
The strange thing is that if I click “Check”, it finds all the articles no problem – but if I click “Post”, it tells me it can’t find any.
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October 27th, 2010 at 9:35 am
Do you mind letting me know which keyword you’re searching for?
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Same issues as Marisa. Using version 1.5 on WP 3.1
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I was searching for “womens wide shoes” with the search set at “all the words”. Like I said, the “Check” button brings up a huge number of articles but the “Post” button produces none.
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Bob, i’ve install the latest plugin (1.5.0) along with wp 3.0.1. unfortunately i’m still having problem with “no article found for the specified keywords”. for testing purposes my keyword is “forex”. it should be able to list out tons of articles. really appreciate for your help. thanks
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November 2nd, 2010 at 2:41 am
Fixed in version 1.5.1
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I’m having problems getting anything to post, I know there are articles with my search terms but nothing posts, even when I do a force post.
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November 2nd, 2010 at 2:40 am
The problem was caused by ezinearticles.com search result format change.
Fixed in version 1.5.1
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November 2nd, 2010 at 12:59 pm
New version I get the following error:
Warning: mysql_real_escape_string() expects parameter 1 to be string, object given in /***/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 785
Warning: mysql_real_escape_string() expects parameter 1 to be string, object given in /***/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 785
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Hi up until a week ago Guest Blogger was great but now on all my sites it just says no articles found for keywords specified and I have checked and there are heaps of articles available to post
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November 2nd, 2010 at 2:39 am
Thanks for the feedback. The problem was caused by ezinearticles.com search result format change.
Fixed in version 1.5.1
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Bob, thank you very much for the update. really appreciate that. Azman
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I’ve updated to the latest version but I’m getting this message:
Warning: mysql_real_escape_string() expects parameter 1 to be string, object given in /****/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 785
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Hi Bob,
I have the newest version, but I keep getting the error: “Last operation status: Got an empty article.” What does this mean?
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November 4th, 2010 at 8:55 pm
Which keyword are you using?
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I’m getting a new error when trying to manually post articles:
“Last operation status: Search failed. The returned content as follows.
cURL error: 7 Message: couldn’t connect to host”
Thanks for a great plugin, hope you can fix this!
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November 4th, 2010 at 8:57 pm
If the install testing works, this could be a temporary problem at ezine server.
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Thanks for the Plugin – it is giving the following error, I hope you get it fixed.
Last operation status: Search failed. The returned content as follows.
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403
Keywords
poems,poem,poetry,love poetry,nature poetry,anger poetry,creative poetry
music,hollywood music,top music,top music charts,types of music,rock,jazz,classical,dance
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I can Publish only 25 articles per year as per ezine articles TOS. How I can increase this limit
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Hello BoB,
I’d like for the autoposted ezine article to be picked up by Posterize (a WP plugin) and sent on to my Posterous blog automatically.
Posterize works fine when I manually create a post, but it does not pick up the Guest Blogger posts… Any idea if this would be possible?
Cheers,
Anders
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Oh, by the way… I tried using the search box on your site… and got a 404
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I love you! What a fantastic plugin! If you are looking for future enhancements though, I have a little one. I am really picky about the stuff that I put on my blog and I don’t post every article that comes through. I do want to comply with the ezinearticles tos, but the counter counts every article whether I use it or not. Maybe an option to edit the counter instead of delete it?
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November 13th, 2010 at 10:16 am
Thanks for the praise.
You can reset the counter.
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I too have the curl error:
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403
Any idea how to fix it?
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Hi Bob,
I am getting this error no matter how wide i set my search parameters. Running the latest version of guest blogger
Last operation status: Search failed. The returned content as follows.
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403
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December 2nd, 2010 at 11:19 pm
This is a temporary error, indicating that your IP is blocked by ezinearticles.com. It will work after a while.
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December 6th, 2010 at 6:58 pm
Bob,
I upgraded and I am getting the same error.
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December 13th, 2010 at 5:57 pm
I just installed this today, first time I ran it got this error these other people are reporting as well. (403) the self test checked out good all the way down. Hope there is an update because this is a brilliant plugin!
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Any idea what could cause this?
Warning: mysql_real_escape_string() expects parameter 1 to be string, object given in /hermes/bosweb/web089/b896/whl.leopardman/scribbles/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 785
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December 6th, 2010 at 2:21 pm
No idea. I cannot generate this error with Comment Rating, or the widget.
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Hi,
I just uploaded the plugin and I tried to set it up but I for some reason have not seen any articles appear. What have or am I doing wrong?
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Ok…I was able to upload a post onto my blog with the plugin, however if you take a look at the article it is not format right. I would like for it to look like a regular article not in long form like it is on my blog. How would I fix this?
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December 9th, 2010 at 9:08 am
Is this just the problem of one post? The post is using the original article formatting. It may be the intended layout of the article author.
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Hello, I’m having trouble and can’t find a proper solution. This is the error message I get:
Last operation status: Search failed. The returned content as follows.
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403
So far I’ve only be able to get one guest blogging post.
Please advise…
Thanks!
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I also get this error message.
“Last operation status: Search failed. The returned content as follows.
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403″
Tests show that it is working fine, but when I try to post I get the error message. Haven’t been able to do a single post yet.
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Great plugin. I am surely gonna add this to my WP. From now onwards vacations are gonna be fun. Thanks for the great post.
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It shows following error:
” Parse error: parse error in D:\wamp\www\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\guest-blogger\guestblogger-option-page.php on line 225 “.
What would be the problem??
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January 14th, 2011 at 1:26 pm
Very strange. I cannot reproduce the problem.
Please download the plugin again. Delete the old installation first.
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GUest Blogger Plugin is not pulling in articles from Ezine needs to be fixed
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January 18th, 2011 at 8:23 pm
What’s the error msg?
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hi bob。Ｉthink your plugin is veryuseful. I need another plugin like this, I wish you can help me to code this,can you give me a email
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The error is just like it was with 1.4 version
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403
What got changed with 1.5?
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January 20th, 2011 at 1:09 pm
Ezine site is blocking the search request from your IP. This is a temporary error which will go away once in awhile.
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Getting curl error as follows:
Last operation status: Search failed. The returned content as follows.
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403
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January 21st, 2011 at 10:15 pm
See http://wealthynetizen.com/guest-blogger-faq/
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Please integrate Google Translation into Guest Blogger, so when a new article is posted i can be translated… like from english – to – spanish.
It would be a major upgrade and func if you can do this.
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I am getting this error
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403
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January 27th, 2011 at 7:02 pm
Pls see http://wealthynetizen.com/guest-blogger-faq/
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I keep getting this message – please help
Last operation status: Search failed. The returned content as follows.
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403
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When I try to grab articles, I get a curl error 403 forbidden.
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Last operation status: Search failed. The returned content as follows.
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403
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Hi, I have installed this plugin but unfortunately it is not working as it should be! After a few posts it stopped posting and I am getting error message when I manually try to post. Secondly it has not created any Author although I have selected Auto Creating Authors!
For your information, my WordPress is 3.0.5 and Guest Blogger Version is 1.5.2 (latest).
Any suggestion to correct this will be appreciated.
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February 9th, 2011 at 8:20 pm
What does the error message say?
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February 9th, 2011 at 10:43 pm
Hi, The error message is:
“Last operation status: Search failed. The returned content as follows.
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403″
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February 15th, 2011 at 3:12 am
I have the same problem.
Search failed. The returned content as follows.
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403″
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We would love to see the plugin be able to publish to pages too
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I have updated to the newest version and still receiving an error code. I search for the articles using the ‘check’ link and there are always articles available. Error reads the usual ‘cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403′
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Hi – I’m also getting an error message from Guest Blogger ver. 1.5.2. I also verified that there were plenty of articles available for the keyword by clicking “check articles”:
Last operation status: Search failed. The returned content as follows.
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403
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March 1st, 2011 at 3:22 pm
I saw your FAQ regarding this error message — sorry for the uninformed post. However, since I am on shared hosting and have no control over that — is there anything I can do? Is there a work-around?
I just installed the plugin, so unless the problem is at the Ezinearticles.com end it’s not my website from the shared IP that’s pinging them too much.
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When i click on post now then i receive this message. Please help me.
“Active Posting Tasks
Last operation status: Search failed. The returned content as follows.
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403″
Reply me as early as possible
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I’m getting the same error, it was working before, but since last month it just stopped, I get …
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403
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I got 2 questions…
1. I installed the plugin and when i try to go to the configuration page, i get 500 internal server error. Could you tell me what could be wrong? Other admin pages & site works fine.
2. Is there any implications on the new google search algorithms affecting content farms?
thanks!
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BoB
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March 11th, 2011 at 10:04 pm
For 1, you should look at your Apache error log to find out why. It may have nothing to do with Guest Blogger.
For 2, are you building a content farm? how are you building it, e.g. on the same hosting account or many accouts?
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I am getting an error like this
Last operation status: Search failed. The returned content as follows.
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403
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I am getting the same erroras everyone else. I installed this in my site http://free-debt-counselling.net/
but when I tried on the
http://car-loans-with-bad-credit.net it doesn’t work. They are both on the same server, separate accounts. I think you have a bug in your plugin.
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BoB
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March 29th, 2011 at 2:50 pm
I have check the code which works on many other sites. The error is temporary, depending on how frequent you configure guest blogger to search.
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Hi bob,
I’m having this message.
Last operation status: Search failed. The returned content as follows.
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403
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Plugin worked great, but suddenly it is showing this error msg : “Last operation status: Search failed. The returned content as follows.
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403″
Please Help Me.
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Michael
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September 12th, 2011 at 8:44 am
I am having the same issue on my sites is there a fix or do we move on? If you could get this plugin to work correctly i would be willing to purchase it.
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There has to be a fix for this. cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403
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i am having this error!
“Last operation status: Search failed. The returned content as follows.
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403″
does anyone know how to fix it how what is the problem.
thanks
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BoB
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May 20th, 2011 at 2:08 pm
Please read the FAQ.
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MY SITE ADDRES IS http://imujz.web44.net I AM GATTING THIS ERROR WHEN ACTICQATE THE TASK Last operation status: Search failed. The returned content as follows.
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403
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BoB
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May 20th, 2011 at 2:07 pm
Please read the FAQ
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It does not work. An error message comes up:
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403
What to do to fix it?
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Last operation status: Search failed. The returned content as follows.
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403
why?
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Well the plugin has been working fine… but last 2 days it quit and only says it returned a blank article. Guessing any EZA change recently? Since it does it no matter what keywords now. And I have the article counter turned off but even cleared it anyway.
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Hi Bob. Plugin no longer works. I’m getting “Last operation status: Got an empty article”
for every keyword I use.
Could it be “EzineArticles search result format change”?
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BoB
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June 8th, 2011 at 7:58 pm
Thanks for reporting the problem. I’ll take a look and provide an update.
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BoB
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June 9th, 2011 at 4:18 pm
Problem fixed in version 1.5.3
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Hi BoB,
It’s still happening with version 1.5.3:
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403
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Bob – Thanks for continuing to support this awesome plugin! Very much appreciate it, I admit I used it fairly extensively this past month. When it recently broke (2 weeks ago?) I was disappointed but it’s great to see you still supporting it and providing a new version. Thanks!
Incidentally, any possible chance you’ll add proxy support in a future version? If not I understand, but thought I’d ask
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BoB
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June 15th, 2011 at 12:24 am
Thanks for the kind words. I’ll look into this.
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It seems like “Last Updated:” still shows 2010-12-3 at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/guest-blogger/
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Hi Bob,
Thank you for such great plugin.
I just tried it a few minutes ago for the first time and I am getting:
Last operation status: Search failed. The returned content as follows.
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403
Any ideas why I am getting this?
Thanks!
Cynthia
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BoB
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June 17th, 2011 at 12:47 pm
Try the search again later and there may be a different response.
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Hi, I have tried for 3 days… nothing
thanks for the reply though.
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Hi there,
On creating a task with the plugin I get the following error:
Active Posting Tasks
Last operation status: Search failed. The returned content as follows.
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403
Am just wondering what has caused this error and how to fix it. Please email me directly if possible…
Cheers!
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Hi Bob,
Your plugin isn’t grabbing any articles on 3 different sites I just installed it on. I’ve used it in the past for other blogs and it always worked great. I’m using the latest version of Guest Blogger and WP.
Just so you know… I wouldn’t be opposed to paying something for this plugin to ensure your continued support.
Thanks
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No articles are being pulled for WP 3.1.3. All I’m getting is this message when I click the “Post” button: “Last operation status: Got an empty article.”
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I think I’ll have to join the club as well. I’m getting exactly the same message. Would you mind explaining what needs to be changed within the plugin, so whenever the plugin stops working, we can update it ourselvs, before the updated version will be available to download.
PS In general, great plugin, when it will work again. Actually this is the first time I used it, obviously can’t comment on it right now as I’ve only installed it.
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Guest Blogger still doesn’t work. Anything new? Please?
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Marek
forex-lessons.co.uk Reply:
June 28th, 2011 at 6:12 am
It does work. Just update it.
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xav
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June 28th, 2011 at 7:07 am
Yup. Updated it.
Nope. Still doesn’t work.
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Marek
forex-lessons.co.uk Reply:
June 28th, 2011 at 7:19 am
looks like your ISP is blocking it. Do you have access to any logs on your server?
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Now for some weird reason it stopped working for me
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Now i have to say it did work for me but only for 1 day. Right now it’s showing “got an empty article” message.
Bob would you mind letting me know why this would happen?
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Marek
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June 28th, 2011 at 2:45 pm
Strange but now it works again without any problems
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Just updated and still getting from ALL blogs: “Last operation status: Got an empty article.”
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BoB
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June 28th, 2011 at 6:46 pm
Which keyword do you use?
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I have Guest Blogger activated on about 10 different blogs all about completely different subject matter. from cars, to colon cleansing, forex, dating, etc., etc. Each site uses totally different keywords and Guest Blogger no longer works on any of them.
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Sorry to keep bothering you but still no articles and I’m getting a different error message this time:
“Last operation status: Search failed. The returned content as follows.
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403″
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I’m still getting the same error as I reported last week when I try to retrieve articles with Guest Blogger. Any chance your plugin will work again or has it been abandoned? Again, I would gladly pay you for this excellent plugin (when its working) so you would continue to support it. Okay?
This is the error message I get after clicking the “Post” button:
“Last operation status: Search failed. The returned content as follows.
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403″
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July 6th, 2011 at 7:14 pm
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Thanks for replying.
I set up Guest Blogger over a year ago to pull articles to several sites with all them being saved to Draft. Then I manually scheduled them to publish once a day. Your plugin was working perfectly then but I was done with it for so I deactivated it on those sites. So then over a year later I set it up on a few NEW sites and it hasn’t worked on any of them. Then I reactivated an older version of Guest Blogger on one of my older sites and it didn’t work. Then I updated the plugin and still no articles on the older sites.
Anyway, my point is that its unlikely EZA is blocking my IP because I had no problems a year ago and then went an entire year without using it. Also, I’ve tried using it from 3 different IP’s in the last month and still no articles. Got any other idea’s?
Thanks again.
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Well I’m baaaack. I just set up Guest Blogger on a new blog with your latest version 1.54 that has the “Run Self Test” link to click. So I ran the test, and according to the results, everything appears to be working fine, but I’m still getting the same error message I mentioned before when I try to Post articles. If the results of your “Run Self Test” come out okay, then what else could be the problem?
Sorry to keep nagging you but I’m really hoping I can get your plugin to work again like it did for me last year.
Thanks again.
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Updated to the latest version 1.5.5 but no results and the same error code.
cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403
Sorry to keep nagging but this is such a good plugin when it’s working properly!
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Just comes up with “cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403″ every time I try to post. Apparently I’m not the only one with this problem here either. Any solutions?
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Is this plugin dead? It used to work, but I do not see you addressing the problem of “cURL error: 22 Message: The requested URL returned error: 403″
Please let me know one way or the other.
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August 9th, 2011 at 4:24 am
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BoB, is there any option or alternative?
I dont mind paying for the plugin. it has been working well for me.
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What do i do for returned url error 403. I would like to use your plugin and give a great review if i can get it up and posting. I will check back or you can send an email answer. Thanks
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Hi Bob I’ve got proxy access, when I set it up on my computer I can browse other websites and my ip shows IP of the proxy, so I know it works. However when I’m trying to setup proxy on your plugin I get unable to connect error. What is wrong? Any advice?
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