Jeremy Massel
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Forum: WordPress Mobile App
In reply to: MultiwindowHi there!
My name is Jeremy and I lead the team working on this. It’s something that we’re working toward, but there’s a ton of stuff that needs to happen under-the-hood for us to get there. The app was originally architected in a way where data can’t be easily shared between windows. This isn’t difficult to address but it’s very time-consuming to make sure that each window has its own data, and that that data stays in sync with any other windows.
We’ll get there at some point, but it’ll probably be many months at minimum.
Thanks very much for the suggestion, we really appreciate it!
Forum: WordPress Mobile App
In reply to: iOS app causes traffic looking like DOS attackwhat would you say is a „normal“ frequency of this XMLRPC calls?
I wish there were a simple answer to this question – it really depends what the user is doing!
When the app first starts up (or when you navigate to your site root – the area that lists comments, pages, posts, etc) we’ll fetch the latest comments, posts, pages, etc. These are usually 1 call each.
Then if you were reviewing comments, we’d re-fetch the state of each comment as you navigate to it (maybe someone else approved it before you pulled it up – we want to make sure you have the latest data). That’s 1 call per comment.
If you’re writing a post, you might want to insert an image – at that point, we’d do another call to fetch your media library (if you have a large library it’d be 1 call per ~10-25 images, depending on a few factors). When you save the post we’ll have 1 call per new media item, then one to save the text of the post.
So there isn’t really a clear-cut answer for this – we try to find the right balance between keeping the data on your device fresh as you browse while minimizing traffic to your server (the fewer requests we make, the better for your device’s battery too).
Hopefully this gives you a better idea what’s happening under the hood though – please let us know if you have any other questions!
Forum: WordPress Mobile App
In reply to: WordPress App blocks my IPUnfortunately, I don’t really know what to say or how to convince my hosting provider because I’m a simple user and I really understand the role of these files.
No worries – feel free to point them at this thread if you like 🙂
Glad to hear there will be an another solution.. is it possible to know when the new solution is expected?
We’re rolling it out in stages – I’d estimate June is when the majority of the apps’ functionality will be available that way. I wish it was sooner, but we pretty much have to swap out everything under the hood to make this happen, so it’s just inherently slow-going.
If you keep an eye on the release notes for new versions coming out, we mention when we have new functionality available using the new APIs – there will be switches under “experimental features” that’ll let you get started when the features ship if you want to try them before they’re generally available.
how would one save his work on https://playground.wordpress.net/ ? as a follow up question to the previous post .
You can save your progress by clicking the button in the top-left of the screen, then clicking “Save” in the UI that appears. If you save as a ZIP file to your device, you’ll be able to restore your changes later, or import them into another playground (or full site) later.
Forum: WordPress Mobile App
In reply to: WordPress App blocks my IPI work on the apps, so I figured I’d chime in here 🙂
As far as I know, there is no way to change the destination of the XMLRPC file in the app. Someone else may know more about this. Otherwise, the only option you have at the moment is to change your hoster if you want to use the app.
This is correct – it’s unfortunate that the hosting provider is this inflexible (especially if they’re fine with the traffic just going to a slightly different filename). This sounds like someone enforcing a policy they don’t understand – perhaps this could be elevated further with them?
We’re actively working to migrate the app away from XMLRPC to use the WordPress Core REST API, which won’t have this sort of issue – I’m personally super excited to see this kind of issue stop happening!
Forum: WordPress Mobile App
In reply to: iOS app causes traffic looking like DOS attackHi there! Thanks for the data here – I lead the WP apps team, and we’re aware of this issue.
First off – to see the logs, you can go to Me > Help & Support > Logs, so hopefully that’s helpful.
In terms of requests to your site, that’s a tricky thing – we don’t want to overwhelm your site, but when the app is opened we want to make sure your data is up-to-date. For instance, we want to answer questions like:
- Are there new posts you wrote on the web that the app doesn’t know about?
- Are there any new comments?
- Can we still reach the site?
We use this information to update the UI, and that requires sending a few requests.
We’re working to migrate away from XMLRPC to the WordPress.org REST API – this should reduce the number of requests we need to send, but it won’t solve the issue entirely. I’m surprised that your host would see 5 requests per second as a DOS attack – that’s a very sensitive trigger (without any other traffic it would be 0.6 requests per second in a one-minute timeframe). Can you ask your host if they send HTTP 429 responses? The app should respect those (and if not that’s a bug we’ll try to address) and send requests more slowly.
We can probably add a bit more logging to our HTTP requests, making it easier to see exactly when the app is sending data to the server – we’ll look into that soon.
If you’re just interested in trying out WordPress on your Android device, you can also check out https://playground.wordpress.net/ – it runs WordPress in your browser and you can try everything out.
Just be sure to save your work to your device – without a server, it’ll be lost otherwise.
I would find tons more value, especially given the limited character space and screen space on iPhone (using the Jetpack app), in a posting, notification, and comment is a few keywords (or summary) of the original topic and a few keywords (or summary) of the posting, notification, or comment.
This is really interesting, thank you! This is something that on-device LLM support could bring to the table, so we’ll explore this as it becomes available in the newer OS updates.
The Feedblitz formatting is slightly better than the Jetpack formatting. I use that platform more frequently even though it’s dated and has few other convenient features
If you have the time, could you post some screenshots of their formatting, along with what’s better in your mind? That would be super valuable for us as we dig into this!
Thanks so much for the feedback – I really appreciate it!!
Jeremy Massel
WordPress+Jetpack mobile leadThis issue was happening on a test site of ours because there was no
wp-content/uploads/fontsdirectory.I’ve filed https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/61736 about it.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [underConstruction] HELPTry a different browser? Yours may be caching the log out redirect
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [underConstruction] Broken on WP 3.5.1Sorry for the hassle everyone, there is an update available that fixes this issue.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [underConstruction] Coming soon is still showing on the blog page onlyHi Jenia,
If you delete the plugin, it will definitely disappear! If it still doesn’t, it means there’s some kind of server-side caching going on. Check for something like CloudFlare or W3 Total Cache
You can log in at [yourdomainnamehere]/wp-admin/
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [underConstruction] UX/UI Issue or Bug about Restrict By RoleHi Gabriel.
That bug is fixed in the latest version. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [underConstruction] Broken on WP 3.5.1Sionysion, try disabling the plugin again then upgrading.
That issue should be fixed in version 1.10.
Sorry for the hassle everyone.