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…
Download
In plugin’s main page
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Updated: the reported bugs with PHP4 and WP-o-Matic have been corrected.
Tags: on September 2nd, 2007
September 2nd, 2007 at 5:20 am
Just great
September 2nd, 2007 at 6:38 am
Yaaaayyyyyy!!!!!!!
September 2nd, 2007 at 6:42 am
Spoke too soon:
“Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.”
Running WP 2.2.2
September 2nd, 2007 at 12:42 pm
You rule the school, thank you!
September 2nd, 2007 at 2:52 pm
yay!! thank you!!
September 2nd, 2007 at 3:39 pm
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
September 2nd, 2007 at 3:43 pm
@-G
Can you give me steps to reproduce this problem?
Have you selected any categories?
September 2nd, 2007 at 4:29 pm
guilermo.. how to set for source? I follow in your picture but when i publish my source code in your plugin automatically like this
Source : {feedtitle}
Source url cant direct to their page
September 2nd, 2007 at 4:36 pm
@donno
Can you provide some more details ? What happens?
September 2nd, 2007 at 4:42 pm
I have the same issue as vincent:
“Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.”
Running WP 2.2.2
September 2nd, 2007 at 4:51 pm
@HeyHo
Make sure you’re using the latest WP-o-Matic, (http://devthought.com/wp-content/articles/wp-o-matic/wpomatic-1.0RC1-2.zip as of now)
What PHP version are you using?
September 2nd, 2007 at 5:02 pm
owh now solve.. i just use this in source.. <a href={permalink} rel=”nofollow”/>{feedtitle}</a>
for one question.. how to use rewrite option
September 2nd, 2007 at 5:03 pm
@donno
It’s really simple, but just make sure you’re using Firefox instead of IE, for Rewrite doesn’t work on IE (lol, css issues)
September 2nd, 2007 at 5:20 pm
can you give step by step to make rewrite option because when i click your plugin regular expressions instruction .. i just got Help file not found..lol. ..yes i alway use firefox for my work..lol
September 2nd, 2007 at 5:25 pm
@donno
It’s not that hard.
You type in a valid regular expression (with delimiters, and optionally option flags) like /brangellina/i and select the RegEx checkbox.
And then the replacement string to be passed to preg_replace
September 2nd, 2007 at 5:26 pm
And regarding help files, they’ll be complete for the definite 1.0 release.
September 2nd, 2007 at 5:55 pm
I was using Rc1. With Rc1-2 the activation works.
Thxs!
September 2nd, 2007 at 6:19 pm
[...] WP-O-Matic 1.0 has been released today and what a fine day it is for the aggregated auto-blogging world! You can download it here. Guilliermo Rauch, the 16 year-old wunderkind from Argentina, has delivered an unbelievable tool for WordPress and (YES it works!) WPMu. [...]
September 2nd, 2007 at 8:28 pm
On behalf of the SP devs, congrats! Working your way to a RC is by no means an easy one — the majority of what became SP 1.0 RC 1 had been in SVN since early January, many months before its release. As long as you do take a RC to be literally that — a release candidate — there is hopefully nothing more than lots of testing to be done (though the regex issue looks like a release critical bug).
September 2nd, 2007 at 8:35 pm
@Geoffrey
Thanks. I think I messed up he versions of WP-o-Matic… maybe it wasn’t so right to call it RC1 lol…
Anyway, I don’t understand the RegEx issue at all.. works for me.
The biggest problems are the IE CSS incompatibilities and lack of help files, which I’m working on.
September 3rd, 2007 at 7:10 am
Just went to install and got error:
WordPress database error: [Table 'wordpress.wp_wpo_campaign' doesn't exist]
SELECT * FROM `wp_wpo_campaign` WHERE 1 = 1 AND (frequency + lastactive)
September 3rd, 2007 at 7:40 am
I had smartrss installed before as well, dropped the wrong table. Got it working!
September 3rd, 2007 at 8:34 am
Issue solved with 1.0RC1-6. Wait for the file to update and redownload
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:53 pm
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September 4th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Hi, great work!
I want to use {feedtitle}.
When i saved the campain three times it looks like:
{feedtitle}
Why?
September 4th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
ok, no html here
{ feedtitle }
I mean this “\\\\\\\”
September 4th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
href=\\\\\\\”{permalink}\\\\\\\”>{feedtitle}
last one
September 5th, 2007 at 1:09 am
hello guillermo et all…
am i the only one who still doesnt get the post title to refer to the original post?
also, when i fetch the feed…it just hangs.
i have installed the plugin on a clean install of wordpress. any ideas?
thank you very much for your efforts
September 6th, 2007 at 12:20 am
Hi, your plugin is awesome… Anyway, I am trying to use a google news rss feed but the plugin only posts one node of the rss feed. any ideas?
thanks and good work.
September 6th, 2007 at 5:05 am
One thing I’m noticing is that when I “remove all” posts from a feed (from the tools page) is that, although the posts get removed - the count doesnt get subtracted from the category listing. So from trial and error and removing the same feed over and over trying to get them to look right - the category says I’ve got 337 posts, even though there’s only about 40 actually still in the system.
September 6th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Just a few suggestions (great plugin btw….)
global rewrite - cause there’s a few rewrites that I’m doing on every feed, would be nice to just put it in once… but damn, I guess it’s not bad that we have to do *something*
September 6th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
OR, what would reallly be helpful is if you moved the category selection to the feed input page, so they can be added on a per-feed basis instead of per-campaign.
September 7th, 2007 at 5:02 am
Great plugin!
Wondering: Have been trying to find out how to set the scheduling for, say an update of the feeds every 30 minutes. Want wordpress to handle this, as I don’t have access to crontab.
What do I have to fill into the d h m boxes?
thx Daniel
September 8th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
@Guillermo Do you have a RSS feed for comments? Maybe a small forum or wiki would help organize bugs, releases, etc. ?
September 9th, 2007 at 1:14 am
Works well for me, but for some reason turning on image caching hangs it. Without caching, posts are fetched fine, but images are leeching from original servers which is sooo slow. If the image thing could be fixed, I would donate for this wonderful plugin, I promise!!!
btw; my cache directory seems to be set up correctly, permissions wise. When i look inside it, its even downloaded the images it seems…. but the plugin is still crashing.
September 11th, 2007 at 3:15 am
I think it just happens with the initial fetching because of the huge numbers of posts involved - if I turn on image caching after getting the initial set of posts, it does appear to be caching images correctly for subsequent posts.
It is still a little annoying to not have all the initial posts cached, but this is understandable. Perhaps there could be some way to limit it initially to a certain number of posts (10, for instance?)
September 12th, 2007 at 6:03 am
wp2.23final,1.0rc1
checed feed url ok,but submit say:
could not be parsed (SimplePie said: )
how can i du
September 12th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Any word on SlideList 2?
I know you’re extremely busy, but an ETA would be cool.
September 12th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
Really looking forward to SlideList 2, I would love any version of it (I’m only using it horizontally), good luck with wp-o-matic, sounds impressive.
September 16th, 2007 at 7:05 am
Hi, I’m running tests on a local IIS 5.0 server with PHP 4. Caching does not work for me either. In my case, it seems to be an issue with the file name being created as opposed to permissions. Here’s what file mon tells me :
11875 11:57:22 php.exe:2044 CREATE C:\_FILES\ALBERTO\webserver\tests\WordPress\wp-content\plugins\wp-o-matic\cache\b0776_2007_09_15t141351_450×290_us_palestinians_israel_prisoners.jpg?x=130&y=83&sig=XpXDnv6P5ODwys6YHvWAxw– NAME INVALID Options: OverwriteIf Access: 00120196
Great plug-in, by the way!
September 18th, 2007 at 9:45 am
Hi,
Great work!
Is it possible (for the future) to add the use of keywords?
so it can fetch the feeds and post only the results based on our keywords
September 19th, 2007 at 9:55 am
Hi guillermo
I installed the plugin but i am having some problems with it. Everytime it try to fetch the feed, It hangs and then kills the database. The feed url’s are fine as beta versions were working fine with it… Any ideas how i can fix this?
Thanks
Irfan
September 20th, 2007 at 11:56 am
Yes,
One thing is even though I have added the cron job, it does nto executed and when I try to do it manually, it just hangs and nothing comes up. COuple of new posts are added, but nothing beyond that. A lot of times posts are duplicated too…
September 24th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
I have the plugin installed and running, it works except for the auto part. I can manually update and get new news, but the Next campaigns to Process days shows 2519, instead of the correct number. I have it set to update ever day. Any ideas?
Thanks!
September 26th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
So, I’m running WP-o-Matic 1.0RC1-9 and I have it importing a single feed every hour–the catch is, it doesn’t notice when it’s already imported the posts from a feed, so I end up with the same ten posts on my site over and over if I leave the campaign active.
This is a great plugin otherwise, though. I hope this is just stupid oversight on my part and is easily fixed. If not, I’m surprised no one else is complaining about it. Thanks for any help you can give!
October 7th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
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October 9th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Hey man love the plugin but I seem to be having a problem with the crons… it says:
Warning! cron.php was called with the wrong password or without one!
Any idea what’s going on?
October 18th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Great plugin! Keep up the good work.
I use webcron.org to run cron.php and that works fine.
The only problem I have is that WP-o-matic sets the date and time of the post to the date and time of fetching the feed. This happens only the first time a post is added, or when it has been changed in the feed.
It’s an iso-8859-1 encoded feed, with the following dateformat: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:00:46 GMT +0200
Maybe I have to change this to help WP-o-matic use the right date and time?
October 18th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
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October 30th, 2007 at 2:31 am
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November 22nd, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Hi,
I downloaded the plugin but i have a problem with the author name when I add a campaighn. it says “wrong author name” every time i submit it. what do i need to write as author name?
November 23rd, 2007 at 10:11 am
Hi,
Thanks for a great plugin.
However, how do you add nofollow on outgoing links?
And perhaps URL masking would be nice aswell.
December 2nd, 2007 at 9:43 am
@yegal
Just enter your login name as author name.. works for me..
December 16th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
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December 21st, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Awesome!
February 28th, 2008 at 10:13 am
great plugin, but I cant make it to fetch posts automatically, I have to do it manually
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:46 am
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May 27th, 2008 at 7:00 am
Greetings, can anyone advise why relinking will not work i.e linking to an external site from specified words within posts?
cheers