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WP-Venus

  1. Install the WordPress Venus plugin as any other plugin into the wp-content/plugins directory.
  2. Activate the plugin from the WordPress plugin administration screen.
  3. Go to the Venus option screen and configure:
    • Absolute path to the Venus cache directory: This must contain the complete location of the Venus Atom entry files on the local server that WordPress is running on, that is, the value of the cache_directory setting in the Venus configuration file. The directory may contain subdirectories, but they will not be examined.
    • Minimum update interval (minutes): This interval should be set to a little lower than the interval at which Venus itself is run. If you run Venus every hour, try setting this to 55 minutes.
    • Default role for new users: Change this if you want users created by the plugin to have a different role (the default is "Author").
    • Default parent for new categories: Select a category if you want automatically created categories to have a parent instead of being created at the top level.
    • Use link category mapping: Check this if you want to use link/source specific category mapping.
    • Tag with source URL?: Check this if you want the plugin to assign a tag with the URL of the source to each new post.
    • Check entry size?: Check this if you want the plugin to not only check the modification time of entries in the cache directory, but also see if the size of each entry file has changed.
    • Use original link to post?: Check this if you want permalinks on index pages and in feeds to point at the remote site where the post originated from.
  4. Set up a cron job to fetch http://yoursite.example.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-venus.php every hour or so (at least the interval you configured above). You probably want to schedule this the same way you schedule Venus itself. If you are unable to schedule cron jobs, you may instead uncomment the very last line of the plugin (the one with 'wp_head' and 'update'). That will make the plugin look for posts on page loads, but only as often as specified in the update interval configuration. This is not the recommend method, as it slows down page loads for (some) visitors.
  5. Sit back and relax...

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