Ecto to WP « WordPress Support”>Saves and Publishes from Ecto to WP « WordPress Support
Another “tinkering with the blog” post; I was trying to figure out why drafts weren’t showing up in ecto.
Although ecto’s support person thought it was that WordPress doesn’t return “draft” as a post status – which I already knew, it shows drafts as “published,” but at least it shows them once they’re saved – it was actually a timestamp problem.
The options page had the timestamp off by 2 hours, and thus drafts were showing a time 2 hours in the future, and not showing up when ecto “called” for the most current post list. If I went onto WordPress and published, it picked up the correct current time from my computer… I think.
I’ve re-set the options page to the right offset from the Universal Time Code, which ought to be -6. Now I have to test a couple of other drafts. The point of this is so that I can use the “Press It!” quick posting bookmarklet to start a post that I can then finish in ecto.
“Wish me luck, I’m off to crash the server!”
Many thanks for your piloting this, on the off chance that I might decide to shift over to WP …
“Piloting” is such a kindly substitution for “flail helplessly,” and I thank you for it.
The image handling, and the Flickr feature that’s already been fixed in the current beta, is what has me hanging in there. WP has a very nice interface, but it’s capable of being better, and ecto bridges the editor gap better than either the default or enhanced WYSIWYG interface. :-“