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Fixing the posting error

Re: Error saving blog posts in movable type (Praneeth's Blog)

Chidamabaram, I guess most of us are getting the same error. You are right it actually publishes but it would be better if we would save it is a draft. Dr.Gibson said he is working on it.

The issue seems to be trackback autodiscovery. If you turn it off, you will be able to publish normally. Here's how to do it.

  • Log in to your account
  • Choose settings
  • Under "New Entry Defaults", disable trackback autodiscovery
  • Save your changes

This problem seems to be affecting only some people. There was a misconfiguration in one of the blogs. If you tried to use trackback autodiscovery during this period (by simply writing a post with a link in it), you are likely experiencing this issue.

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