August 4, 2019 – David Shanske

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@dshanske listened to you on WP Weekly Podcast. Really interested in trying some Indieweb tools. Can't get Bridgy to connect to my site/Instagram. Any pointers to where to get support for Bridgy? Just keep getting errors when trying to connect.

What is the error you are seeing? Happy to try helping.

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If I just put in the site url: https://t.co/yLaECEe0bz into Bridgy Instagram page I get:

HTTP Error 400: 400 Bad Request The server could not comply with the request since it is either malformed or otherwise incorrect. IndieAuth verification failed: 500 WordPress › Error html

— Tevya (@tevyaw) August 4, 2019

Have you tested IndieAuth? It should just work, but this suggests some sort of login error.

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If I just put in the site url: https://t.co/yLaECEe0bz into Bridgy Instagram page I get:

HTTP Error 400: 400 Bad Request The server could not comply with the request since it is either malformed or otherwise incorrect. IndieAuth verification failed: 500 WordPress › Error html

— Tevya (@tevyaw) August 4, 2019

If it helps, stop by chat.indieweb.org/wordpress and we can help in realtime.

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…if I go to the Bridgy plugin settings & click the button to "Register for Instagram", it takes me to the https://t.co/IRXkKmhMze Instagram page with this message at the top:

"Couldn't fetch your web site: Missing required parameter: user_url"

— Tevya (@tevyaw) August 4, 2019

I have decided to deprecate the Bridgy plugin as it misled people about what it did. You can register directly on the Brid.gy website.