StumbleUpon Social Bookmark Plugin For Wordpress

StumbleUpon Social Bookmark Plugin For WordPress

404 Page Not Found Error in StumbleUpon Submission
by Fernando Hal (cheatad.com)

In this site Cheatad.com, I use the Social Bookmark Plugin for WordPress to add a good number of social bookmark buttons, making things a little easier for my readers to add to their bookmark.

However, for since sometime back which I can’t recall either, the StumbleUpon button on the plugin bookmark doesn’t work. It’s either an upgrade broke down the plugin, or StumbleUpon change their submission URL. My guess most probably it is the latter, since StumbleUpon has redesigned the site recently.

So, what’s the error? Clicking the StumbleUpon button brings us to a 404 error page. Here is how it looks.
StumbleUpon Error

So, http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit.php doesn’t exist on StumbleUpon. Upon some finding, the actual URL for submission is without php file extension, it should be http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit. Well, now we know what is the cause of the error, finding a fix will be much easier.

We will need to edit a file from the plugin. Depending on your server, you’ll either need to logon via FTP or edit plugin via WordPress admin panel. The second option is definitely the easier option, but might or might not be supported by your hosting.

Either way, you’ll need to edit the file sites_EN.xml in the social-bookmarks folder.

Via FTP: Assuming your server is on Cpanel and you have default installation without any change of directory, the file would be in /public_html/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarks/sites_EN.xml

Via WordPress plugin editor: Select Social Bookmarks from the dropdown and click “Select”
Wordpress Plugins Editor .
The on the right-hand side list of file names, click on social-bookmarks/sites_EN.xml .

Now, find the text
<url>http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit.php?url={link}&title={title}</url>
and replace it with
<url>http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url={link}&title={title}</url>

After that, Save or Update File. If you are editting via FTP you’ll need to upload the file back to server and replace the previous version.

That’s it. Done. Check the site again, now try the StumbleUpon submission link. It should work and you can again recommend your site to millions of Stumblers easily.