WP-o-Matic 1.0 to be released
This weekend (around Sat 26) WP-o-Matic 1.0 is to be released, including many bugfixes, some small new features (like tags support in campaign creation), and most importantly, full Wordpress 2.3 support
This stable branch will not see feature updates in quite a while, only bugfixes, in an attempt to provide a solid and reliable feed aggregating plugin for Wordpress once and for all.
You can contribute! Suggest new features or changes for the upcoming WP-o-Matic 1.1 by posting your comments here. You can stay up-to-date with all the news regarding WP-o-Matic through your favorite RSS reader.
Update: Here is a pre-release version for you to try.
It’s fully 2.3 and 2.4 compatible, and includes the new setup screen to assist users in installing WP-o-Matic successfully. Click here to download
Update 2: Newest version here. WP-o-Matic is slowly reaching perfection
Update 3: You can find WP-o-Matic RC2 in the main post now.
Tags: on October 19th, 2007
November 1st, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Hmm… Guillermo, what’s the problem with my post that I mentioned above? You know what I’m talking about.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Guillermo, do you moderate comments here? Find a few minutes to check the “awaiting moderation” ones.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:16 pm
@da
I test with mysql 4.1.20; I’ll try to figure out what’s wrong with 5.x
Your comment would’ve been useful if you had included the whole error message.
@everyone
Instead of complaining try to be a little more helpful. This is a big plugin that requires a more complicated setup and maintenance than most of your typical Wordpress plugins.
By complaining and saying how well other plugins work you gain nothing. Be nice and provide accurate error messages, server configuration details, versions, instructions on how to reproduce the errors, etc
Thanks
November 1st, 2007 at 12:13 pm
I have implemented the following additional improvements to WP-o-Matic 1.0 Build 196:
- forced “Use feed date” option in order to prevent post duplicate problems (2Guillermo: the “if()” condition in your code below “// Item date” doesn’t work correctly)
- youtube-like flash videos now can be syndicated without any problems (I was asking Guillermo to implement this feature but it’s still missing)
…and oh yeah, the improved version of WP-o-Matic 1.0 Build 196 is available to download here: http://www.cyberseo.net/downloads/wp-o-matic-196.zip
November 1st, 2007 at 11:03 am
wp-o-matic 196 doesn’t work! I’m also getting this error message:
WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘…
BTW, I have MySQL 5 installed on my server. It works fine will all the other scripts including WP 2.3 but not with wp-o-matic.
Don’t even try to install wpomaticca196.zip at your server - because it’s tooooo buggy.
November 1st, 2007 at 6:35 am
by the way i have a wpmu install and use wp-o-matic on several blogs. how can i use just one cronjob so that all will be fetched
November 1st, 2007 at 6:26 am
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/vs086/domains/s3x.cc/public_html/wp-admin/admin-header.php:16) in /home/vs086/domains/s3x.cc/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/wpomatic.php on line 990
i get this after i save the settings, but when i click the wp-o-matic tab again everything is ok
October 31st, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Thanks for the plugin.
I am giving it a whirl.
Can you please add options to:
1. Spew excerpts instead of full feed
2. To limit the number of posts feed-wise.
Thanks.
S.K
October 31st, 2007 at 3:41 pm
@Guillermo Rauch
For me, just pulling a number of entries and discarding the rest would be optimal, and would probably be easier route to code.
I like to use the RSS feeds to automatically supplement content on some of my blogs, usually just a few posts per day. Currently, if I select a feed that has 30 posts, then I end up with 30 posts in my blog, all on the same day.
I know some people like to generate as many pages as possible for their blogs, but this has always seemed very “spammy” to me.
October 31st, 2007 at 11:10 am
I almost passing this version. I always check your site from plugin panel. Thank you for this release.
Sam Huget
New Playstation Blog
http://www.newpsxblog.com
October 31st, 2007 at 2:20 am
No I have not encountered any bugs cos I havent tried it yet. I was just looking at the comments and users seem to have some problems, so I thought let me wait till everything is sorted out. By the way I came across a similar plugin (free) … auto-rss-importer … and it seems to be working great with my WP 2.3 blogs
October 30th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
@alan, @Brian Alwood
Do you want to just pull a number of entries and ignore the rest, or to schedule the remaining for the next fetch ?
In other words, it can work like this. Let’s assume the feed has 30 entries.
a) Fetches last ten. When feed has new items again, last ten (if more than ten, naturally).
b) Fetches first ten. Next time feed is parsed second ten and so on.
The main reason I haven’t added this feature yet is that some users need a) whereas some others prefer b).
October 30th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
@Brian Alwood
I’m asking the same , any chance to have this feature Guillermo ?
Thanks
October 30th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
I think this is great plugin, please keep up the great work. I do have a question/poosible feature request. Is it possible to limit the number of posts that it will pull from the RSS feeds? For example, one of the feeds that I include in my blog will has 20+ posts. I would like to only select the newest 5 when the cron job runs. Any Ideas?
Thanks,
October 30th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
@Manish
What bugs are you encountering ?