January 13, 2010

A Common Problem and a Simple Solution

Filed under: ScribeFire, Troubleshooting, Wordpress -- Christopher Finke @ 08:42pm

One of the most common bugs reported for ScribeFire is a variation on this theme:

“When I post to Wordpress, all of the HTML is stripped out. e.g., <br /> appears as ‘br /’.”

This is not a bug in ScribeFire; rather, it is a bug in a piece of software called PHP that is used to run your blogging software.

The (hard) solution to this bug is to get your Web host to upgrade their version of PHP to version 5.2.9 or greater. If that’s not possible, you can fix it yourself by installing this Wordpress plugin.

Thanks to all of the ScribeFire users that have reported this problem, and thanks as well to the other users that supplied links to the fixes.

7 Responses to “A Common Problem and a Simple Solution”

  1. 1
    su2pect
    January 14th, 2010 at 6:35 am

    Hi, it seems that despite there is an issue with creating valid XHTML by the ScribeFire editor. When I tried to validate my (Wordpress driven) blog, there appeared a couple of markup errors. Mostly wrong placed block elements like or . When I open a posting created with ScribeFire in the tinyMCE (WP internal editor) and update it without doing any changes, it cleans out the code and the markup errors disappear. Any idea how to avoid this behaviour (other than writing the postings in HTML)?

    su2pect

  2. 2
    Marc Sheffner
    February 1st, 2010 at 8:35 pm

    The “blog to Wordpress” problem also happened when trying to “blog” a photo from Flickr to my Wordpress blog. The Flickr problem has been solved by upgrading my PHP to version 5.3.

  3. 3
    Upgrading PHP
    February 1st, 2010 at 8:48 pm

    [...] and edit the .htaccess file by adding the following line of code (I upgraded to version 5.3, as per Scribefire’s instructions): AddHandler application/x-httpd-php53 .php .php5 .php4 .php3 [...]

  4. 4
    Scribefire plugin problem
    February 1st, 2010 at 8:50 pm

    [...] today and uninstalled Scribefire, rebooted Firefox and prepared to blog about it. Going to the ScribeFire homepage, however, I read the following: One of the most common bugs reported for ScribeFire is a variation [...]

  5. 5
    Erratic Foxboy » Blog Archive » Test Blog Post.
    February 2nd, 2010 at 11:11 am

    [...] This is a test to see if the blog post mentioned at http://www.scribefire.com/2010/01/13/a-common-problem-and-a-simple-solution/ [...]

  6. 6
    Tom
    February 4th, 2010 at 5:33 pm

    This isn’t fixed. I have the correct bits as well as the ‘fix’ installed in the latest version of WordPress and my html is still mangled.

    libxml2-2.7.2-1.fc10.i386
    php-5.2.9-2.fc10.i386
    WordPress 2.9.1

    :(

  7. 7
    wirklich
    February 12th, 2010 at 4:44 am

    Hey, when I can use Scribefire-extension for my Google Chrome? You are planning to do this?

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