{"id":7098,"date":"2018-04-14T13:09:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T17:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=7098"},"modified":"2018-04-14T13:55:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T17:55:46","slug":"reminder-and-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=7098","title":{"rendered":"Reminder and Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back on March 2, I posted that org2blog<\/code> was suddenly not working. I
\nwas certain that it was something my host provider was doing but that
\nturned out to (probably) not be right.<\/p>\n

In order to push posts to WordPress, org2blog<\/code> uses XML-RPC<\/a> to talk
\nto the WordPress server at the Irreal site. Any attempt to access the
\nserver through XML-RPC returned a 400 (Bad Request) error. I was
\npretty sure that the hosting provider was blocking XML-RPC for some
\nreason but they swore they weren\u2019t. I threw together a bit of Python
\nto make a test post using XML-RPC and that did<\/i> work so my provider
\nwas provisionally off the hook. In the meantime, my provider got
\nacquired and the new owners are<\/i> blocking XML-RPC so now I have to
\nargue with them about not doing that.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been able to continue posting by converting the Org mode source
\nfor a post to HTML and manually pasting it into the WordPress editor.
\nThat\u2019s a pain but it does get the job done except that the formatting
\nof the posts is wonky. In the last two or three days, I\u2019ve received
\nemail from a couple of readers complaining about line break tags in the
\nposts. It turns out that the line breaks are what makes the formatting
\nlook bad. It\u2019s annoying enough that they make the posts look funny in a
\nbrowser but, as you can imagine, it causes real headaches for those
\ntrying to read Irreal on a small screen such as a mobile device.<\/p>\n

I checked the HTML that gets generated when I convert from the Org
\nmode source and it looks OK. It\u2019s also OK when I display it locally
\n(without going through WordPress) so apparently WordPress is adding
\nthe breaks when it displays the post. I don\u2019t know why this happens
\nand I can\u2019t find any solution in the documentation. If you know a
\nworkaround for this please<\/i> leave a comment.<\/p>\n

So the TL;DR in all of this is that yes, I know about the line breaks,
\nand no, I\u2019m not inserting them just to be perverse. In fact, I\u2019m not
\ninserting them at all: WordPress is. I am<\/i> trying to resolve these
\nproblems and hope I can get things back to normal soon. In the
\nmeantime, thanks for your patience and I\u2019m sorry about the lousy
\nformatting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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