WP-o-Matic 1.0RC1 released (updated again)
After so much feedback, reading so many of your -often annoying- comments, the first release candidate is out.

Please refer to the plugin main page for download and installation instructions
Changelog summary
- Added a dashboard with quick stats and log display.
- Added campaign support to centralize options for multiple feeds.
- Added import/export support through OPML files
- Added image caching capabilities.
- Added word/phrase rewriting and relinking capabilities.
- Added nonce support
- Added i18n support with translation domain ‘wpomatic’
- Added help throughout the system.
- SimplePie updated to 1.0.1 (Razzleberry), relocated and server compatibility tests included.
- Improved Unix detection for cron.
- Removed MooTools dependency for optimization reasons.
- Redesigned admin panel, now divided into sections.
- Logging now database-based.
Some really cool stuff
Post templates

Feed autodiscovery and ajax checks

And so much more you’ll pee your pants…
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In plugin’s main page
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Updated: the reported bugs with PHP4 and WP-o-Matic have been corrected.
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Whoa! I just ran the plugin and after putting in an RSS Feed and doing the fetch my Wordpress went haywire, and gave me about a hundred lines of stuff like this:
WordPress database error: [MySQL server has gone away]
SELECT wp_posts.* FROM wp_posts LEFT JOIN wp_post2cat ON (wp_posts.ID = wp_post2cat.post_id) LEFT JOIN wp_categories ON (wp_post2cat.category_id = wp_categories.cat_ID) WHERE 1=1 AND post_name = ‘5d30e_ads’ AND category_id IN (0) AND (post_type = ‘post’) GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY post_date DESC
WordPress database error: [MySQL server has gone away]
SELECT cat_ID, category_nicename, category_parent FROM wp_categories WHERE category_nicename = ‘cache’
WordPress database error: [MySQL server has gone away]
SELECT cat_ID, category_nicename, category_parent FROM wp_categories WHERE category_nicename = ‘cache’
WordPress database error: [MySQL server has gone away]
SELECT wp_posts.* FROM wp_posts LEFT JOIN wp_post2cat ON (wp_posts.ID = wp_post2cat.post_id) LEFT JOIN wp_categories ON (wp_post2cat.category_id = wp_categories.cat_ID) WHERE 1=1 AND post_name = ‘5d30e_ads’ AND category_id IN (0) AND (post_type = ‘post’) GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY post_date DESC