There are a bunch of plugins that attempt to do this, to varying success (none yet for myself).
I have tried these myself:
Feed2Post
I forget why, but I didn’t use this one.
FeedWordPress
I had the most luck with this, and it has nice features like automatic category creation, user account creation, etc (which btw only worked for me after installing the optional replacement rss.php and rss-functions.php files). In addition to cron, authors on the feed side can ping the aggregator site, only I never got the ping or cron to do anything. Documentation is a little sparse, so I prolly have it set up wrong.
Be aware that using plugins like these to copy content you don’t own is copyright infringement. Don’t steal content.
balord, you didn’t use the Feed2Post because it doesn’t work! And, Otto, it’s AN RSS FEED, they’ve provided their content so that you can display it on your blog, and *their* feed gives plenty of credit back to them.
rosemckay: Sorry, but no. Just because it’s a feed does not make it public domain or non-copyrighted material. Furthermore, just giving them credit for it doesn’t make it legal either. You need to have specific permission or there must be a stated license that allows you to reproduce the content.
Make sure that you check with the owner of the material and/or look for copyright terms either in the feed or on their site. Many feeds include the copyright terms in the feed themselves. If you look at the feed, look for a <creativeCommons:license> tag in it, that’s a pretty commonplace way to provide licensing information.
Arbitrarily stealing other people’s feed content for your own site can indeed get you sued. It’s copyright infringement unless you are specifically allowed to do it, somehow.
Good to know, I was totally misinformed. Thanks.
