WP-o-Matic 1.5: What to expect

The plugin

Not only the new version fixes dozens of bugs, it also ships with impressive new features that will blow your mind (and your blog readers) away.

Some of them are:

  • Plugins support. You’ll be able to install them with only one click.
  • Cross-platform. Guaranteed to work flawlessly on every hosting and setup scenario.
  • Ajax campaign processing. Process your campaign with a neat progress bar, right from the admin panel, asynchronously.
  • … and 27 more!.

The website

WP-o-Matic will be hosted at its own website, where a new community will be born. Some of the toys it comes with:

  • Community forums
  • Wiki
  • Plugins repository

And a few more surprises :)

WP-o-Matic 1.5 is the result of lots of hard work, feedback analysis and testing. I look forward to hearing your comments and expectations. Stay tuned for the grand opening.

  1. Charles about 1 year ago

    Hi Guillermo Rauch,

    Your plugin is really awesome. I love it!!

    BTW I found few bugs just like everyone and I saw that the 1.5 release is on May 11th.

    Today is May 11th let me kn at what time u will be releasing the plugin.

    Thanks

    With Regards
    B.Charles

    • Guillermo Rauch about 1 year ago

      I’m working really hard on the release. Hang in there!

  2. Barry about 1 year ago

    I installed wp-o-matic on my blog and went to set up my first campaign.

    I got the following error message when attempting to add a new category in the campaign set up:

    Call to undefined method SimplePie::set_item_limit() in /home/content/b/a/z/baza1955/html/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/wpomatic.php on line 805

    Can anyone help please?

    Thank you,

    Barry

  3. suggestor about 1 year ago

    Feature request: Please add an option to add new post content to existing posts. (This should be an option, not a default feature)

    For example, when a new post is pulled in from the RSS feed, its content could be attached as an update to an existing post, instead of creating a new post. (ideally, the updated content should appear before the old content, instead of being appended to the end)

    This should be an option that you can select, and then select the post to add future posts to.

  4. ebiladdress about 1 year ago

    I installed the plugin and ran the install, added the following cron to my Go Daddy account:

    */20 * * * * /usr/bin/curl http://stablesystemsnow.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cron.php code=4404c14c

    I also set the WP-O-Matic timer to 0 0 30 hopeful it would run each 30 minutes.

    The manual fetch works just fine, but its not automating.

  5. Jenyum about 1 year ago

    A client of mine is having an issue with this plugin, that when it pulls in a post with no image it still tries to include an image, resulting in a broken image icon on browsers like IE. Any advice on how to fix that? Is it inherent to the plugin or could it have something to do with their setup? If it’s a bug, will it be fixed in the next release?

    Any help you could provide would be much appreciated.

  6. Sonny about 1 year ago

    Instead of the FEED URL, can you set it up so people can click to go the the title’s URL — that is, the actually URL of the article found in the feed?

    • Sonny about 1 year ago

      Just wanted to add that I think you did a fantastic job, and I, along with many others, can only say how much we appreciate your hard work. I’m looking very forward to the new version! Thanks!!!

  7. Maulkin about 1 year ago

    Hey, I’m waiting for the version 1.5, because my main concern now is to get the filtering option: I want to get only post if they are related to some subject, which can be define by keywords. Wich I can’t do right now.

    Keep up the good work!

  8. Hal about 1 year ago

    Having trouble doing replacements with the * in regular expressions.
    Can someone please post an example that works.
    Thanks much.

  9. Chuck Reynolds about 1 year ago

    lot of haters in here about issues… but overall… this plugin kills it… it works very good, granted she’s a little finicky at times but this is the only plugin that does what it does and you can’t complain about that.

    Thanks Guillermo for the plugin and can’t wait for the new version. Cheers

  10. L053r about 1 year ago

    Hmm still no release date announced, come on Guillermo at least announce the release date.

  11. TonyLopez about 1 year ago

    I didn’t see any response on the duplicate posting issue that’s mentioned in any of the comments below. Does that mean that this is not going to be fixed in the new version? It seems that’s one of the biggest problems from all the other WP-omatic forums I’ve been to.

    • Guillermo Rauch about 1 year ago

      First, the duplicate posts does not happen in every scenario. In fact, it happens in the minority of cases. Secondly, that’s one of the first bugs we fixed for the upcoming release, whose release date will be announced tomorrow =)

  12. June about 1 year ago

    My installation of WP-o-matic is not working at all. I activated the plgin, but when I click on it in settings, nothing shows up. I have a message showing “Please click here to setup and configure WP-o-Matic.”, but when I click it, still nothing shows up.
    Anyone know what the problem could be?

    Oh, the plugin did not have a cache folder, so I did add it into the main folder and set the permissions to 777, but that did not help.

    Really appreciate it if anyone knows the answer!

  13. L053r1 about 1 year ago

    hmm Just one thing, Will the new release have the option to embed videos in posts from video sites like metacafe.com dailymotion.com and so on? OR Is there already a method to get that done, then would someone please share it with me?. Currently im using WP-o-Matic 1.0RC4-6.

    Thanks

    • Guillermo Rauch about 1 year ago

      There’s currently a way, but WPOM 1.5 definitely makes it easier.

  14. Man about 1 year ago

    Everyone’s asking when the update will be released … wtf is so hard to answer when the next update will be released ?

  15. ljazs about 1 year ago

    wp-o-matic cache is not writable? How do I fix?

    Image cache path cache is not writable!

    Any suggestions would greatly appreciated
    Blog is not Fetching automatically.

    • Jon about 1 year ago

      make sure you read the instructions and have the cache subfolder created, and set to 777

  16. Steph about 1 year ago

    I guess the update won’t be out to soon …

  17. Unit1 about 1 year ago

    Any Status Update

  18. sean65 about 1 year ago

    I’m looking forward to the new release. I’m currently catching some heat from the owner of a feed that I capture because they place their entire post in the feed. I can follow the same logic as in WP’s feed.php which will strip and cut, but then I’m hacking your code.

    I hope that one of the 27 other features is a maximum length of post parameter, otherwise I’ll have to hack it.

  19. Herve about 1 year ago

    Any Status Update ??? Do you need a Beta Tester ?

  20. Matt about 1 year ago

    Any chance the new version will have the feature of instead of a new blog post per feed entry, a daily digest of new feed items in one blog entry?

  21. bebop about 1 year ago

    do you think it can be possible to transfor your plugin to be a buddypress plugin

    so that buddypress will have a feed aggregator in their buddypress account ?

    buddypress uses wpmu2.7.1

    • Guillermo Rauch about 1 year ago

      It might not be too hard to do so, but we’ll pay more attention to MU users after the initial launch.

    • bebop about 1 year ago

      if you do know a bit of bddypress.
      transforming your plugin which is actually excellent for republish post in just a personal feed reader for bdpress users would be very great

      i hope you will have some time for it to care of wpmu and bdpress uses of your plugin ;)

  23. Jonathan about 1 year ago

    Can’t wait to see 1.5… Patience is a virtue, that is hard to keep. Hopefully the wait wouldn’t be any longer. Been waiting for it for ages since 1.0RC4-6.

  24. gateway about 1 year ago

    Do you need a beta tester , I used WordPress MU to host about 30 blogs on my server… would be nice to check compatibility.. im running wordpress mu 2.7

  25. Moazam about 1 year ago

    I found a bug, when you import post with cache images it does not store images in media manager. I believe it should so we can use them later. Please Guillermo reply to me.

  26. blackie about 1 year ago

    when will it be released ? aprox .. so I know if I start doing something else in the meantime .. 10x

  27. David Stoker about 1 year ago

    I am very excited to use the new version! Thank you for all of your hard work on this!

  28. Jon about 1 year ago

    Here’s a question for everyone… anyone ever experienced a white blank page when adding a campaign in admin? Any solutions?
    thanks!

  29. Nikko about 1 year ago

    Hi Guillermo,
    Love the plugin, set it up, configured it, set up a cron job for midnight each day, manually fetched the campaign, worked great brought in the posts from 6 feeds exactly like designed. My problem is the cron and autopost is not working, I checked a few hours ago and it show 2 hours to the next update but it passed without doing anything, just says “Next” now. Can you provide insight, cant figure it out.

  30. sofeng about 1 year ago

    When will it release????

  31. Federico about 1 year ago

    Hi Guillermo, I have a question over how fetching process affects the statistics of my website.
    For example: I have one feed being processed 4 times a day (I set a cron job with 6 hours interval; is that ok?) with total amount of posts (from feed fetching process) of 40 a day.
    How many pages views my website stats service (Webalizer) is going to record from the ONLY fetching/posting process? (for example when I post manually I know adding 1 post requires me to visit 3/4 pages: login WP Dashbord,write post page, submit,logout etc… I know this activity is being recorded in the website stats with 4/5 pages views)

    Also, I need a clarification about your reply to ‘drcodiac’ about ‘Server load’ problem. I am worried because I’m launching a portal with 400 feeds with fetching process being called by a Unix cron job. Is it wp-o-matic ok for such large website? I need clarification about your suggestion “The key is setting them to different frequencies…”. Could you add an example with numbers?

    Thanks so much again for this great plugin!

  32. Moazam about 1 year ago

    Is it possible to make thumbnails and add them into custom field so we can call it from theme?

  33. David Stark about 1 year ago

    Thanks for the brilliant plugin

    I hacked some shellcode to generate my own .rss to import but was wondering if there was a forum or similar where dev’s can talk as I’d like to get involved if possible. Am experiencing a bug when importing 700 odd ’s and it no-long apears to be able to process the ’s :/

    works for same formated file but fewer items… most peculiar

    Rgds -david

  34. gateway about 1 year ago

    Will their be an ability to create a “Page” out of an RSS feed, lets say you have 10 items in your RSS, but you want to create static pages instead of posts, will their be a way to do that… ie grab the xml info, images, embed videos, and links

    • Guillermo Rauch about 1 year ago

      Currently the the features have been frozen, which means we’re not adding new ones, and just testing and polishing. However, this could be straightforward to add in the feature.

    • gateway about 1 year ago

      Thanks… any sneak or open beta coming soon?

  35. John Doe about 1 year ago

    I forgot to mention my “little wish list”
    I hope there’ll be a filter for a feed that only consist of few words.
    such a feed which only consist of of feed title.
    for short, we only accept a feed with minimum 160 characters. It’s SEO matters :D , especially for meta description.

    Thank you and sorry for ‘duplicate post” :o

  36. John doe about 1 year ago

    Very nice plugin ! it’s works almost on every feeds.
    the only one that seems to be a “bad feed” is a feed from costum google news feed..I hope it’ll we work on the next release. Can’t wait for the day of release :D

    Wordpress + Wp-o-Matic = Rocks !

  37. Dan about 1 year ago

    Will there be the ability to rewrite the actual title efficiently i.e when taking amazon feeds and removing the “tagged as” text?

  38. DickNervous about 1 year ago

    Well, I was going to write about a problem I am having and some features I would like to see implemented, but I will wait to see what 1.5 holds since it seems it will be ready very soon.

    BTW, I really like this plugin, great job on it and thank you!

  39. wheregotfree about 1 year ago

    I can’t wait for your new version, when is it releasing?

  40. Toby about 1 year ago

    Guillermo, I Love it! Thanks.

    I installed today and I love it. Thanks. (reiteration :) )

  41. drcodiac about 1 year ago

    Guillermo,

    Two issues a client is having that I would like your advice on in RC4.6:

    1. Timezone bug – even if the frequency of a feed is short, getCampaigns() improperly excludes it from update, so our cron job is ignored. Q: could this be a desync between PHP and MySQL in the GMT handling? Docs for MySQL UNIX_TIMESTAMP say it converts to UTC. Could wp-o-matic be “double offsetting”?

    2. Server load – the client has 17 feed URLs total, and on a recent run the server admin disabled the script because of high server load. The feeds are not excessively high traffic. Q: is there any additional throttling beyond the “max items” setting? What overhead does SimplePIE impose? Any settings there?

    We’re looking forward to 1.5, but could use some assistance because RC4.6 is live on the server. Thanks! –drcodiac

    • Guillermo Rauch about 1 year ago

      1. This actually is a problem with how WP handles time, which is pretty lame in my view (the useless current_time functions). This problem has been addressed already for 1.5, so it shouldn’t be a concern for end users.

      2. The key is setting them to different frequencies. 17 feeds being processed at the same time can have a great impact on servers. Again, I came up with a very clever method to fix this issue in 1.5, which will mean easier deployment for end users as well

  42. Dominik about 1 year ago

    That should be “object” tag… ;)

  43. Dominik about 1 year ago

    Will the new version allow to keep the original blog post “completely unchanged”? The current release seems to throw away “” tags. I think that’s standard simplepie behaviour – if it isn’t told to leave them intact.

    • Guillermo Rauch about 1 year ago

      Yes. There will be a “I trust this feed” checkbox below the feed (among other very useful per-feed options) that disables HTML filtering. This was added in response to the many requests to add flash, javascript, etc coming from the feed.

  44. Dani about 1 year ago

    Gille hola: Donde se encuentra un tutorial o video o algo sobre los setting?
    Gracias
    Dani

    • SeoGuru about 1 year ago

      No hay tutorial, pero es muy facil, yo creo. La proxima versiòn serà plus difficil, y tu podrà seguir los consejos in un sitio communitario hecho por esto plugin.

      Sigue Guillermo. Y escusame por mi terribil espanol. :)

  45. SeoGuru about 1 year ago

    I’m waiting 1.5 release and i’m happy to know you are going to make a wp-o-matic website for the users-community. I appreciate it very much.

    Please, fix all kind of wp-o-matic multiple post duplicate instances, it’s the biggest bug i can’t fix by myself (all kinda solutions seems to be unuseless, at the moment..).

    I love your work.

  46. holga about 1 year ago

    is there a new release date? all my projects are in waiting position cause of the plugin ;) i need it! … yesterday ;)

  47. Jonathan about 1 year ago

    I thought it is supposed to be released on 15th March. Where is it?

    • Guillermo Rauch about 1 year ago

      I’m currently working on addressing the feedback the betatesters provided. Please be patient :)

    • raihan about 1 year ago

      Thanks rauch

  48. freecashman about 1 year ago

    My current challenge is that the plugin is not automatically updating. I have to do it manually. Is this something I may have done incorrectly in the set up? Please advise.

  49. Boris Papandopulo about 1 year ago

    When will 1.5 be released?? I can not wait ….

  50. Claudiu about 1 year ago

    looking forward to the next release

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