{"id":1176,"date":"2011-03-03T11:51:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T15:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2011-03-03T11:51:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T15:51:19","slug":"thrilling-tales-the-page-updates-that-couldnt-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/03\/thrilling-tales-the-page-updates-that-couldnt-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrilling Tales: the Page Updates That Couldn’t Die"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MadI’m pretty sure that the brain I implanted in the Thrilling Tales<\/em> page update system was not<\/em> labeled "Abby Normal". But I do get a little absent minded, so….<\/p>\n

Anyway I’ve made a couple of slight changes and did a new test behind the scenes, and everything worked just splendidly – possibly because it was<\/em> behind the scenes so you couldn’t see it. <\/p>\n

But since we’re talking about what’s behind the scenes, here’s what goes on there.<\/p>\n

When a previously scheduled post goes live at Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual<\/em><\/a>*, it emails a page update notification to an ultra secret email address. The Webomator blog checks the email for that address, and if the email is legitimate the Web-O-Blog publishes it as a post in the Thrilling Tales: Page Updates<\/a> category. Then it deletes that email from the mail server, just like your own email client probably does when you download new messages.<\/p>\n

For whatever reason, I think that the emails weren’t being deleted this morning. So every hour the Web-O-Blog would check the email, find a "new" message, and post it. That shouldn’t have happened, and I can’t make it happen again now, so maybe I fixed it. The next real world test will happen Monday morning when another page goes live.<\/p>\n

I sure don’t know why it happened in the first place; if what I did this morning really did<\/em> fix it, it may have had something to do with the way the emails ended. Anyhow: I’m sure it was annoying if you saw it – if you’re seeing these posts on Facebook, you’re still<\/em> seeing it. Please believe that it annoyed me at least<\/em> as much as it did you.<\/p>\n

*This is the clever bit, because only serialized Thrilling Tales pages are scheduled ahead of time. <\/em><\/p>\n

\n[tags]thrilling tales of the downright unusual, the lair of the clockwork book, stupid wordpress tricks[\/tags]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m pretty sure that the brain I implanted in the Thrilling Tales page update system was not labeled "Abby Normal". But I do get a little absent minded, so…. Anyway I’ve made a couple of slight changes and did a new test behind the scenes, and everything worked just splendidly – possibly because it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thrilling-tales","category-thrilling_updates"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}