AudioBlog and WordPress 2.0 work together
PC Mike approached me because he was having problems with AudioBlog Media not posting directly to his WordPress 2.0 blog. I was able to find a few people who got this to work, but none of the how-to’s I found adressed the hurdles that came my way. I post this here to save others from some of the time I spent troubleshooting this and log-chasing. Hope it helps.
The first problem was found in the Apache raw access logs. They showed a 412 http status code from AudioBlogs IP address. The last time I chased my tail over a 412 error on WordPress, it was tracked down to the BadBehavior plugin.
/wp-content/plugins/bad-behavior/bad-behavior-whitelist.php
I added AudioBlogs IP to the whitelist and the website allowed them to connect….
There was another fix from this blog by Eric Rice that allowed WordPress to accept the iframe tag.
Next problem was that AudioBlog would make the connection, print the blog, but the iframe wouldn’t show up with the embedded video/audio. After looking at some of the filesizes of the media displayed in AudioBlog, I adjusted the php.ini file to accept larger uploads through PHP and to allow scripts to run a little longer. Voila! AudioBlog was working with Wordpress 2.0 and BadBehavior was behaving itself. PHP was modded to handle larger uploads and longer execution times and the entire blog would load.
Of course, if you’d “just like to get it done”, you can contact me. This tutorial isn’t very detailed, but it should help other devs to find a few of the hurdles I met up with and come up with some quick workarounds.
tags: audioblog and wordpress - a rough integration how-to
February 22nd, 2006 at 10:35 pm
Thanks for posting the fix. I will let others know.
February 22nd, 2006 at 10:45 pm
[…] I have not yet fixed it myself, however here is an explanation how to solve the issue. I am aware that this solution works as PCMike paid the programmer to create the fix on his blog. […]
April 26th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
I’m having the same trouble with Audioblog and WP 2.0. I’ve added the few lines of code suggested by Eric Rice, but it’s still giving me problems. What would you charge to fix the problem? Thanks!
April 26th, 2006 at 8:43 pm
Terry, I may be able to get this running for you for about $40 with good info to get into your account. I just sent you an email through your site so that we don’t need to discuss sensitive info on this blog
Thank you for your interest in this service, I have fixed a few sites like this since this article first posted so I’m sure I can help you also.
July 31st, 2006 at 10:12 am
Hey, I may need help getting this installed as I have only worked with “PlugNPlay” Plugins to date….I have BadBehavior running so when I upgrade I don’t want a headache…e-mail me to discuss fees please or leave a comment on the latest post at my blog