WP-o-Matic. The Wordpress RSS Agreggator
WP-o-Matic makes autoblogging a snap by automatically creating posts from the RSS/Atom feeds you choose, which are organized into campaigns.
Screenshots
These are some screenshots from the admin view:
Features
WP-o-Matic aims to provide a very wide range of features. Currently, these are:
- Campaigs Feeds and all settings and options are now organized into campaigns for the perfect organization and comfort.
- Multiple feeds / categories: it’s possible to add as many feeds as you want, and add them to as many categories as you want. It’s not obstrusive, so you can also write your own posts to any of those categories.
- Every form of XML syndication supported. This includes RSS 0.91 and RSS 1.0 formats, the popular RSS 2.0 format, and the emerging Atom.
- Feed autodiscovery, which lets you add feeds without even knowing the exact URL. (Thanks Simplepie!)
- Unix cron and Wordpress cron jobs For maximum performance, you can make the RSS fetching process be called by a Unix cron job, or simply let Wordpress handle it.
- Comfortable interface. The admin is powered by a state of the art ajaxy interface that lets you handle your feeds with ease. Updated!
- Images caching for extreme performance and hotlinking bypassing.
- Words Rewriting. Want to replace the word “Poker” with “Texas Holdem”? We have it covered. Want to use regular expressions? We have it covered.
- Words Relinking. Define custom links for words you specify.
- Post templating. Define a global header and footer for the posts, or even for a specific feed. Add ads
- Campaigns import/export using OPML files. Easily import hundreds of feeds into new or existing campaigns!
Upcoming features
- Improved export (to include campaign options, with an extended OPML)
- Image thumbnailing
- Improved importing with drag and drop
- Advanced templates
- Advanced filters
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Known bugs
- No Internet Explorer in RC1
- Missing help files
FAQ
How do I link to the original site/article?
Use the post template feature (example: {content} <p><a href={permalink}>Link to the original site</a></p>)
Why isn’t the full article showing?
Because the site is only syndicating excerpts, not full content
Download
Click here to download WP-o-Matic 1.0RC3.
As this is a release candidate, bugs still can be expected. Note: every time WP-o-Matic is deactivated, tables are removed. This will only happen with RC releases.
WP-o-Matic is released under the MIT license.
Installation Instructions
Unzip wp-o-matic.zip in wp-content/plugins/ and enable it. A message will warn you to verify SimplePie is compatible with your setup. Follow the link in the box to do so.
Upgrading
Once WP-o-Matic reaches 1.0Stable, you’ll be able to update without rewriting tables. For now, uninstall any previous version of WP-o-Matic (make sure tables go away) and install the latest version.
Credits
WP-o-Matic makes use of the wonderful Simplepie library for the feeds parsing. Without Simplepie it’d be virtually impossible to provide reliable support for a variety of feed types and versions.
Report bugs
Please report bugs by creating tickets in the Issue Tracker
March 24th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Can you please make rc1 and rc2 available for download again?
March 24th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Is anyone else having trouble with duplicate content? I get duplicates on the same run, same source same rss url, usually within the same second or so. It could be some issue with RSS source but wanted to check here first.
Thanks
March 24th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Hey! Love the plugin. Odd issue, though.
When it brings in content, my “custom fields” section of new posts get filled with items like wpo_campaignid and wpo_feedid.
I then have to fumble around and delete them by hand. Sometimes it “takes” and sometimes it does not.
Any ideas how I can avoid this? Thanks!
March 24th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Hi Guillermo.
Thanks for this great plugin.
Version 1.0pre5
I have set it up and it seems to be working well in Wordpress 2.3.3
I saw on your blog that when an article does not appear in full it is because the syndicators only give the excerpts.
2 questions on that.
Do you have any pointers where to go to get full articles?
Also is there a setting in WP-o-matic that defines whether the article should show in full once you click on it on the index.php page?
Another issue that I am having is that when I try and change the Permalinksfrom Default to Date and Name Based it tells me to update my .htaccess.
Also it tells me that it is not writable so I change the .htaccess chmod to 666.
Also I add in the following code ( WordPress brings it up at the bottom of the page).
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
When I do that and try to view individual posts I get the following…
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@volvo.carsandsecurity.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.37 Server at volvo.carsandsecurity.com Port 80
I am using a couple of other plugins Optimal Title and YARPP Yet another Related Posts Plugin.
Any pointers that you can give me will be a great help indeed.
Thankyou!
Geo
March 23rd, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Never mind, I got it working. In addition to removing “embed” from the list of html to strip in the simplepie php file, I had to set “function native_embed” to “true.”
March 23rd, 2008 at 8:11 pm
I tried taking “embed” out of the list of stripped HTML tags in Simplepie but embeded content is still getting stripped out.
Anyone out there have any luck with this yet?
March 22nd, 2008 at 9:31 am
Hi,
Simpie got an update of 1.1
I’m just wonderig if this is the verson you use.
Thanks a lot.
March 21st, 2008 at 10:58 am
Hi,
I also would really like to have a feature like Roger described on March 16th:
“Thanks for this great plugin. Can you tell us a little more how to use RegEx please.
Addition of a condtionnal filter on articles to import would be great ( ex : if title contains “clip” then skip import … or just import articles which conatin “clip”)”
Thanks
Joe
March 20th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Hi, any way to make the script stop after only X entries/posts and then remember (avoid the timeout) ?
March 20th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
hi.
I have installed wp-o-matic and i get a full page of errors of this style
Warning: is_executable() [function.is-executable]: Unable to access /usr/sbin/php.cmd in /mnt/104/sdb/8/9/labcal/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/inc/tools.class.php on line 72
and
Fatal error: is_executable() [function.is-executable]: Unable to access /usr/sbin/php.com in /mnt/104/sdb/8/9/labcal/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/inc/tools.class.php on line 72
Fatal error: ob_end_flush() [ref.outcontrol]: failed to delete and flush buffer. No buffer to delete or flush. in /mnt/104/sdb/8/9/labcal/wp-includes/functions.php on line 1518
when i try confguring it.
Any idea what happened?
Thanks!
Frank
March 20th, 2008 at 11:57 am
I saw this question already on the site but no reply.
I am getting this error message on activation
”
Warning: is_executable() [function.is-executable]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/usr/sbin/php.com) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/widemark:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/widemark/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/inc/tools.class.php on line 72″
I have several other installations working OK, is there a fix for this?
Thanks
March 20th, 2008 at 11:30 am
BUG REPORT.
Although I’ve chmod 777 for all folders…
public_html (I use CPanel)
wp-content
plugins
wp-o-matic
wp-o-matic/cache (which I created)
…it still gives me a cache unwritable error.
My WP is 2.3.3
mbstring and iconv are not installed.
cron.php is in the right place
After a few failures, I deactivated all other plugins and said no to all the options in WPOM - and it worked. Phew.
All I have to do now is turn the plugins on again and say yes to a few options and see if one of them kills WPOM again.
FYI.
Gary
March 20th, 2008 at 11:07 am
yoram Says:
March 13th, 2008 at 3:33 am
just installed your plugin. The only issue left is that under ad campaign options it gives me an error use name author not found. I have no idea who is he author as it is coming from a web site feed
HI THERE YORAM…
Under User > Author profile, you can create as many “authors” as you like.
Gary
March 18th, 2008 at 7:07 am
Thanks mate. You’re a champion. Awesome plugin. The UI is well thought-out and the whole thing installed like butter on WP 2.3.
Thank you!
March 16th, 2008 at 8:49 am
Hi,
Thanks for this great plugin. Can you tell us a little more how to use RegEx please.
Addition of a condtionnal filter on articles to import would be great ( ex : if title contains “clip” then skip import … or just import articles which conatin “clip”)