PushPress PubSubHubBub Wordpress plugin broken

The PushPress plugin for Wordpress allows blogs to implement the pubsubhubbub protocol (real time pushes for RSS feeds). This feature is so important these days it should be bundled by default in Wordpress.

But it’s broken, example:

1. I want to get pushes for http://feeds.feedburner.com/newteevee, the feed includes 2 hubs http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/ and http://gigaom.com/?pushpress=hub (the PushPress plugin).
2. I send a POST to http://gigaom.com/?pushpress=hub to follow http://feeds.feedburner.com/newteevee, I get a 400 status with a body saying “hub_topic - http://feeds.feedburner.com/newteevee - is value is not allowed.  You may only subscribe to http://gigaom.com/apple/feed/ or http://gigaom.com/broadband/feed/”

Too bad. It’s almost there…

4 months ago