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1. elizabethcb
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I have had requests to fork this project. I've been modifying it for a client project.

   I have added author functionality. Basically, if there's an author in the feed post, that will display when the_author() is called instead of the feed name.

   I've also added the ability to move feeds from one campaign to another.

   I wrote a Perl script to convert a spreadsheet of feeds to opml for WPM(U|S):
   subdomain, category, subcategory, feed
   Then upon import, you can pick the campaign and wordpress category it belongs to, or it will create a new one.

   I've set the default to use feed date and to not cache images.

   I've been working on getting the images correctly. At the moment, it inserts the image into the beginning of the post, but we might change that to something more robust and customizable.

   Please let me know of any other feature requests or problems you may be having.

2. kagliostro
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks Elizabeth!!!
   But is it possible to use your WP-O-Matic modded? I'm really interested.

   1) a great opportunity could be possibility to set category for every single feed inside a single campaign.
   2) and add tags (or more simple, get category/subcategory and use this to add tag of post).

   But... do you use WPMU? Great!!!

3. daviddicks
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi Elizabeth,

   How you getting on? Are you close to releasing the fix for duplicate posts and the automatic simple tags bug?

   Thanks

   DD:)

4. elizabethcb
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   David,

   Duplicate post fix will be sometime this week. I have to merge those specific changes with an original, as mine is very modified. I'm been bug squashing the past week, but I haven't seen any duplicate posts!

   Kagliostro,

   Categories for each feed is a little out of scope of my changes. I just have each campaign named for a category. Tags though. That's doable. I'll see what I can come up with.

5. kagliostro
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thank you very much Elizabeth!!!

   I'm looking at wpomatic code and I believe that I will be able to solve my category problem with a very little "trick": I will change association category/campaign with association category/feed.
   Luckily Devthought keeps category data separate from campaign data in database so this change would be very simple.

   But... only after I will see your code ;)))

   Again.. Thank you very much for your help!!
   Francesco

6. JaredDetroit
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'm very much looking forward to this update as well. As you're not the author on this plugin page, where will you be releasing the updates?

7. tgiokdi
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   would there be any hope in having the posts be scheduled x seconds from each other / the latest post on the site? right now if I'm doing wp-o-matic from one site to another and there's 10 posts, they all get posted at the same time. I'd like to stretch them out a bit.

8. kiwipearls
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi Elizabeth,

   How is this project coming? Looking forward to its release.

9. elizabethcb
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hiya,

   I got the ok from the plugin author to release my changes. I've gotten enough data to feel comfortable with the duplicate posts fix. http://thedailyglobe.com has 100,000++ posts, so I have plenty of data now. The latest posts have all tags stripped, except for what WordPress puts back in. I'm not happy with it, but there's a lot of broken tags in feeds that break page layouts. There's one feature that I'll either have to remove or option out. It automatically adds a flickr image if there's no image present in the post. It's a very specific feature for this site. I can see it's application to other cases, but I think it'll have to be removed for release.

   Hopefully, I can get to putting it up on my website and adding it to github this week.

10. daviddicks
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    thats great elizabeth,

    looking forward to it.

    any chance the 'simple tags' bug will be fixed alongside the duplication error? happy to donate for a working solution.

    dd

11. mv5869
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Same here. I'm following this closely.

    elizabeth its great that you have picked up the mantle on this software. You have a ready fan base here, and I'm sure like me they are happy to donate for an updated version.

12. kiwipearls
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Oh cool, I am following you on http://github.com/elizabethcb and Anxiously await WP-O-Matic there :-)

13. carl_pilk
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    any news on this?

    I'm have a terrible time with the duplicate posts bug.

    Any alternatives out there?

14. daviddicks
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    i this still happening or has it stalled?

    can someone also recommend a good alternative.

    thanks

    dd

15. kiwipearls
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Hi David,

    She has uploaded a copy to her website: http://slatetechpdx.com/our-work/

    It still needs some fixes and tweaks and you need to go into phpmyadmin to create a unique hash column. There is another post in this forum about how to do that.

16. daviddicks
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    hi man,

    the intruction here http://slatetechpdx.com/our-work/ say add the unique constraint on hash column of the wpo_campaign_posts table.

    but the post here says add unique hash to the campaign_feeds table column?

    which is it?

    i have uploaded elizabeths edited plugin file and have phpmyadmin but have no idea what i need to do next?

    some guidance and instructions on how to add a 'unique constraint on hash column of the wpo_campaign_posts table' would be greatly appreciated.

    DD

17. daviddicks
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    ive had to go back to the old wpomatic for now, as Ive no idea what or how I need to perform the necessary changes from within phpmyadmin. :(

18. carl_pilk
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    yes i dont understand this either:

    "Must add unique constraint on hash column of the wpo_campaign_posts table. Easy with PHPMyAdmin or by hand."

    I have phpmyadmin but need instructions on how to 'add unique constraint on hash column of the wpo_campaign_posts table'.

    This plugin would be great if it didnt have the duplication error and if it worked with simple tags.

19. daviddicks
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    anyone?

    help on how to do this world be greatly appreciated.

20. carl_pilk
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    yes I need these instructions too

    "Must add unique constraint on hash column of the wpo_campaign_posts table. Easy with PHPMyAdmin or by hand."

    please help somebody.

    :)

21. daviddicks
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    willing to pay for the help!

    can someone please help with this? Im not the only one that needs instructions on how to...

    add unique constraint on hash column of the wpo_campaign_posts table. Easy with PHPMyAdmin or by hand

22. mv5869
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Elizabeth - Many thanks for your modifications. Its great that you are picking up the mantle on this popular plugin.

    I downloaded the WPOMatic from your website. Overall I was very happy as it now doesnt post duplicated. However I seem to have lost all the links in the articles. I'm not using any word rewrites but really want to keep the links in the original articles working.

    Is there something odd going on with it?

23. daviddicks
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    please someone describe how you:

    "add unique constraint on hash column of the wpo_campaign_posts table"

    in phpmyadmin. So I can get elisabeths fix to work.

    Im willing to happily pay for instructions!

24. sammyb
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    I tried the fix - but didn't seem to work for me - anyone else tried it?

    To add unique to the hash columnof the wpo_campaign_posts table in phpmyadmin:

    1) select the wp_campaigns_post table from the list of tables in the left sidebar

    2) select 'structure' from the tabs along the top

    3) you will see the 4 table rows - 'hash' is the fourth row - click on the little 'U' (for Unique key) icon in the hash row.

    4) If it throws an error because you already have duplicate 'hash' entries in your wp_campaigns_post table then you will need to empty the table first. (there is no harm in emptying this table.

25. leoblanchette
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    I'd love to see a fix for this too. This is NO easy problem.

26. daviddicks
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    yes i also tried the fix. No change. Still many duplicate posts. This has been a major bug of this program for years now.

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