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
April 10th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Good to hear about the pending upgrade Guillermo. I’m sending a broadcast out to my list telling them to hold off upgrading and to get over here and bookmark to watch for the release. Hopefully many will donate to the cause as well.
April 10th, 2008 at 10:46 am
@Steve
Worry not, because 1.0RC3 already has WP 2.5 support. And it’s gonna be released *real* soon
April 10th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Oh boy…I’m going to have a lot of upset hosting customers when they find out wp-o-matic is not compatible with WP 2.5. New feeds are rejected and old feeds stop working.
April 10th, 2008 at 4:57 am
Hi Guillermo, congratulations for this great software. Using Wordpress 2.5 I got a 500 Internal server error by clicking ‘fetch’. I am pretty sure I am doing something wrong. Is there a way to avoid this error?
Thanks in advance
April 9th, 2008 at 1:14 am
Help me please…I love this plugin but it reposts hundreds and thousands of times…but only sometimes…what the heck is going on?
April 8th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Hi there,
After I added a new campaign, it shows
Image cache path /home/len1455/public_html/amazingbeijing.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache is not writable!
How do I fix it?
April 8th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Is there a full help article / documentation on the WP-O-MATIC plugin.
April 8th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
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April 8th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
I am still having issues with the categories.
it will not display any. Any solutions?
April 8th, 2008 at 6:59 am
not working with wp 2.5
switching to autoblog instead
April 7th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Hi there,
I am aiming to import rss feeds from flickr pools/groups and want to know how i can set the image size when it’s imported - so that the max width fills the content column but not exceed it?
If anyone can offer any help, can they email me please (jenkins.mark@gmail.com)
thanks
Mark
April 7th, 2008 at 8:09 am
Not working with WP 2.5
April 6th, 2008 at 11:26 am
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April 5th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
When editing a campaign, under the Feeds tab, I need to have the categories listed by every Feed URL Input Boxes, so that I can assign a category to every feeds listed in a campaign.
For example, I have a campaign called Furniture. I have listed some feed urls which belong to bedroom, living room, and kitchen categories under the Furniture Category.
I have added the following code to edit.php, which list the categories by every Feed URL Input Box in a campaign. Now my question to you, how can I make the following code effecting for every Feed URL Input Box in a campaign. Simply, I need to have every categories by the Feed URL in a campaign, so that I would be able to assign them to categories individually.
This is what I’ve added to the Feed Section of the edit.php.
// Set a category to a feed
cat_ID, in_array($category->cat_ID, $data['categories']), ‘id=category_’ . $category->cat_ID) ?>
cat_ID, $category->cat_name) ?>
// End
April 5th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
I installed wp 2.3.3 but since than wp-o-matic not working.
What should I do?