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Apr 22, 2012 09:07PM
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Hello!I FINALLY started a blog on wordpress.com and am feeling like a total tech bumbler.
I will fiddle with it when I have a bit more time and try to figure out what on earth I am doing. In the meantime, my question:
When viewing my review on GR it has to the right 'copy and paste text below to your blog' which I did and which did nothing but look like a glitchy peice of writing/symbols. Any advice? :)
What they mean is to copy everything in that box and paste it into a blog post. It's a little fiddly but once you copy everything from that box, create a new post on wordpress and paste into the text tab (not the visual tab).
I am sure I did that (text) and it was a mirror image... hmmm.. I'll try again and see....
Oh dear I am getting so confused :( I am trying to set up my blog on the GR site so that it is linked but don't understand what they mean by the blog source URL. is that just my blog address? eg ponderdeeper.wordpress.com?
Are you trying to set up the auto publish reviews from goodreads into wordpress from the goodreads settings?If so it will be;
blog type: wordpress
post url*: ponderdeeper.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php
login*: [your wordpress username]
password*: [your wordpress password]
Thanks so much Michael! I think I have that bit figured out now at least. Now I just hope it works when I write my next review. Thanks again for your help - feel like an old fogey at 28!
Easy way to test would be to find an old review on goodreads, then click edit review, tick post to blog down the bottom of the review and then click save.Hope it works for you
No that didnt work unfortunately. I tried to enable remote publishing as GR says but there is not tab where they said it would be. Have you used wordpress much?
I'm not sure what you mean but 'no tab'I use wordpress all the time, my blog is on wordpress (self-hosted) but similar to yours
GR says:2. Did you enable "remote publishing" in your WordPress settings?
To check, go to: WordPress blog --> Settings --> Writing.
But following that, I couldn't find 'remote publishing'. When I googled it, someone had commented that the instructions were for wordpress.org not wordpress.com
Hope I am not bothering you too much Michael :)
That is weird. I thought all you had to do was;on goodreads, click edit profile --> apps --> autopublish to blog, and fill in the details.
let me play around with it and have a look
Anything you can find out would be great. If not, I'll just have to do it all manually as I still can't figure out how to do it via copy/paste box (original question). But that's ok - technology and I have never been best mates!
I've found that 'publish to blog' doesn't seem to create a new post on my blog... But I type it up I plain text else where and copy it to the several places I want to put the review anyway, so it's not a drama for me - but I thought I'd reassure Angela that I think I've got everything else working (I think - and I'm pretty technical), and the 'publish to blog still doesn't work for me.My tip for the day is to either type it up in notepad on computer (or notes on iPad) - somewhere that text remains unformatted (not MS Word), and then copy it from here and paste it to the several places you need to publish your review. If you type it up formatted (any word processor), pasting it into something line notes or notepad strips out the formatting, then you can re-copy it from there before you post it to your blog, GR, etc.
If you don't do this, you might find your posts look inconsistent, all you have little unexplained glitches.
Hope this helps! (From another struggling blogger/reviewer/indie author)
Regards,
Gary Williams
gary@robertjamesbooks.com
robertjamesbooks.com
Blog: What will I read next?
Sent from Gary's iPad
Robert James
Dr Robert James (at Goodreads)
I do something similar Gary, but I use Word, I get everything formatted the way I want it and then past it into my blog.
I suppose what I was saying above, is, if you are using MS Word (or similar), when you paste, paste as 'plain text'. Then you strip out your fonts, and stuff, and your 'theme' at your blog can do all your formatting for you, without the interference of this week's post having a bigger/different font to last week's post.
Thanks guys - I'm slowly finding my feet and playing around. Really appreciate the tech support :-D
Gary wrote: "I suppose what I was saying above, is, if you are using MS Word (or similar), when you paste, paste as 'plain text'. Then you strip out your fonts, and stuff, and your 'theme' at your blog can do a..."you must use blogspot then
Angela wrote: "Thanks guys - I'm slowly finding my feet and playing around. Really appreciate the tech support :-D"blogging is one of those things you just have to play around with for a little till you are confident enough. Hope you enjoy it
