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 19th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
I’m running 1.0pre5. Worked fine on my Dream Host account, but it doesn’t work properly on my Media Temple account. Looks like your plugin doesn’t handle Magic Quotes properly (adds extra slash in front of quotes in the custom template). Any chance at a fix?
April 19th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
any word?
April 19th, 2008 at 1:44 am
Hi Guillermo,
I have many many sites running Wp-o-matic and being on Hosgator have been upgraded to WP2.5, they are now not working (cron will not run )
I am happy to donate etc as i have been trying to hire a programmer to fix it.
Please respond as I would much rather give you the money than a programmer.
Thanks
Andrew
April 16th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Just tried, but will almost time out and creates only a few feeds but seems to work quite nicely, but conflicts with 30secs PHP time maximum setting which can not be set by myself. maybe you know a workaround to split that job up (no cron used since no cron allowed, too). anyway: it seems to work nicely if I HAD that performance left..
April 16th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Hi, I’m using hostgator and I tried with WP 2.5 but couldn’t activate WP-O-Matic so I downgraded to WP 2.3 but I am now getting this error when I attempt to activate WP-O-Matic:
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
plugins/wp-o-matic/wpomatic.php on line 63
Any suggestions for me?
Thanks for your help,
April 16th, 2008 at 7:47 am
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April 15th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Cool plugin thanks devthought..
April 15th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
very bice plugin.
April 14th, 2008 at 4:04 am
Does’t work with 2.3.3
April 13th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Hello, is anyone home? I REALLY need your current beta… why can’t you make it available? Can’t you at least reply?
I need to be able to limit the number of posts to make at a time.
April 13th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
In 2.5 links in categories are not showing up. I’m using a custom template and it shows up on the home page and the text of the post just not in the categories listing.
April 13th, 2008 at 10:02 am
When will it be ready for wordpress 2.5?
April 12th, 2008 at 12:51 am
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April 11th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
You need to create a cache folder, then make it writable. You can easily do this with your FTP software.
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April 11th, 2008 at 6:44 am
Hi Guillermo
I’ve got the same problem as Vivian, cache is unwritable. Would love to get a solution.
Do we need to create a cache file? There wasn’t a cache file in the download. Help file was incomplete too.
Thanks