When using AutoBlogged on an IIS web server you may find that you are unable to add new feeds. When creating a new feed and clicking on Save Changes, AutoBlogged returns to the main screen and doesn’t list your new feed.

Problem
The issue is caused because when MySQL is running in strict SQL mode, MySQL raises an error when a default value is not provided but TEXT data types don’t support default values. This is a MySQL bug documented at http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=47901. On some Windows configurations, MySQL runs in strict SQL mode by default.

The value of sql-node can be checked with the following commands:

SELECT @@GLOBAL.sql_mode;

SELECT @@SESSION.sql_mode;

Solution
To change the SQL mode in Windows, you need to edit your my.ini file. To do this, open my.ini in a text editor and find this line:

sql-mode="STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION"

Change the value to this:

sql-mode="NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION"

If this line does not exist can add it under the [mysqld] section of the my.ini file.

Issue

By default WordPress will send a notification to any external blog posts referenced in your site, which show up as comments to the original post.  Sometimes you may not want to notify other blogs when you autoblog their posts.

Solution

To disable pingbacks and trackbacks, go to the Discussion settings in WordPress and uncheck the option Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article (slows down posting.)

Issue

If you find that AutoBlogged is not saving your settings, most likely there was  a problem writing to the database.

Solutions

• If you recently upgraded WordPress or AutoBlogged, first check our Known Issues page to see if it is a problem we are aware of.

• If you recently upgraded or installed other third party plugins or themes, try disabling those to see if they are conflicting with AutoBlogged. If you find a conflict with another plugin, we would appreciate it if you added a comment at the bottom of this page.

• In some rare instances, the database tables are not created correctly upon installing AutoBlogged or they somehow got deleted. In that case, go to the AutoBlogged admin page in WordPress and select the support subpage. From there, search for this:
  “If the AutoBlogged tables were not properly created upon installation, you may manually create them now”
  Click on the create them now link to have AutoBlogged manually reinstall the database tables.

If you try to manage your feeds in AutoBlogged the find that the Edit buttons or other graphics are missing, it may be an issue of corrupt files or incorrect file permissions.

Solution:
Try uploading all of the AutoBlogged files again to the /wp-content/plugins/autoblogged directory. You may need to delete all the existing files first. Note that this will not affect your AutoBlogged settings or any feed data.

If this does not help, check all of the file permissions to ensure that the web server process can access them. It may also be helpful to check any web server and error logs for clues to what is happening.

Note also that if you did not properly retain the directory structure when you extracted the files, this can also occur. The /wp-content/plugins/autoblogged directory structure should be as follows:

/autoblogged

+-  /cache

+-  /img