Experiences with WordPress-Plugin for DPS2015

That might be your issue. The requirements on the plugin page state support for PHP 5.4+

REQUIREMENTS

WordPress 3.5 +
PHP 5.4 or higher,
MySQL 5.0 or higher,
Apache or nginx recommended.
FTP access to the server to install the plugin.

Digital Publishing Tools for Wordpress

Lars,

I've been working on this for the last month or so with little success. 

First it would not install properly but that was fixed by moving to a new host (it was time to renew and I was able to confirm an error free install on another service so we moved from the suggested host to Hostmonster).   I created a ticket with Mercury Studio on their site when I started having the issue.. and heard back from them a few weeks later (this was during the holidays) by which time i had already side-stepped the issue.

Now the plugin won't create a proper .article file.  It's frustrating.

I've followed the Plug-In's documentation,  ensured i'm using the correct version of WordPress, and provided them with the info below...but it's been 8 days w/ nothing from the plugin developer. 

ticket:  Error: Unable to parse the manifest file. [IN014] · Issue #40 · StudioMercury/digital-publishing-tools-for-wordpress · G…

no error from the plugin or wordpress site but when i look at dps, i get this:

Upload Failure
The content was not uploaded.
Unable to parse the manifest file. [IN014]
Select upload to try again.

confirmed we are using a known working version of WP (4.3.2) and have the following server config:

Apache 2.2.31

PHP 5.4.43

MySQL 5.5.42

Perl 5.10.1

downloaded the article from wordpress  and received the .article file, a 'contents' folder (containing only a thumbnail file with zero bytes size) and sidecar.xml.  when i crack the .article file open, it only contains the manifest.xml file and it appears to be wrong:

< manifest dateModified="2016-01-18T15:56:44Z" targetViewer="33.0.0" version="3.0.0" >< index/ >< resources/ >< /manifest >

If anybody has any suggestions, please let me know.

Hey so i'm working with this plugin as well and i installed a wordpress server to test this and here are the steps I had to follow.

First create your article
Then tell it to create the article on the cloud - This does not send over the files just creates the shell on the dashboard.
Then use the the cloud button again and select update all this sent over my .article and image information to dps
I then went manually into my dashboard and added it to my collection and selected preflight and it worked for me.

Georgem82,

thanks you but i'm still getting the same error.

FWIW, this plugin doesn't really handle filesystem stuff terribly well.  It throws lots of stuff into /tmp and never bothers to clean it up, and is very sensitive to file/directory permissions.  Make sure that whatever user your webserver is running as can actually see your template files and assets.  On Dreamhost, it's been kind of a major pain getting everything working properly.

Thanks so much for the heads up jerwarren!  i'll digging into it now