wordmax

Our site is using another plugin to create auto-posts via RSS Google Search Trends. For the featured news articles in the content of the post, we’re using your plugin with the following custom function and added via [custom_rss] shortcode into the posts using the Ad Inserter plugin. Seems to work well, but just want to figure out how to not have the RSS titles show up redundantly again in the excerpt below the title/headlines.

// create [custom_rss] shortcode
add_shortcode( 'custom_rss', 'execute_custom_rss_shortcode' );
function execute_custom_rss_shortcode() {
  return do_shortcode('[wp_rss_retriever url="https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=' . get_the_title() . '&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" items="7" excerpt="50" read_more="true" credits="false" new_window="true" cache="3 hours"]');
}

• This reply was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by wordmax.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by wordmax.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by wordmax.

Could be cool if there were an admin option to cache feeds on blog posts that are newer than X days or some other way time-range control. On an automated site creating 25 posts each day, it adds up fast. Multiple 1000’s of posts… Just trying to think of way that the page will load fast with all content including the RSS feed with no spinner/delay. If we want to keep the news articles in the RSS feeds timely then probably don’t want to set the RSS feed cache to much older than 3 hours. So with 3 hour setting it’s likely that 50% of views are going to require the feed to update delay. Hope this makes sense.

Enjoying using the plugin otherwise. Thanks!

Not sure, maybe a change to your plugin latest version, but the WP Automatic internal cron is working again, and the Magic auto (Google Scrape option) images appear to be working correctly.

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• This reply was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by James Huff.
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Thanks Travis,

Pages are loading pretty quick compared to previous version.

Can’t say for sure, but seems like when the RSS feed loads as the page loads, that Google has a higher likelihood of indexing the content from the RSS feed content in their search results. Which is a good thing. Experimenting with a fully automated blog based on fetching feed from Google Search Trends. So, if the RSS does not load fast enough with page load I think Goog is not indexing the RSS item (i.e. the content from the first item shown in the RSS feed) and will just show our “template” for posts, which will appear as duplicate description results under the title heading in Google search results.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by wordmax.

Hi Alexandre,

Thanks for responding to my question.

I agree with you, yes it’s better to use internal cron. The WP Automatic plugin internal cron which was working fine began to malfunction and not work anymore. Could be a conflict w/ another plugin, I can’t figure it out. The dev says to run external cron and offers no help/suggestions why internal cron stopped working without any changes to the plugin settings or the plugin code.

Thanks for your help, I appreciate it.

Good to know thanks. So, for example, I can implement this custom function and shortcode using Ad Inserter?

I’m not sure how…will have to trial and error I guess.

// create [custom_rss] shortcode
add_shortcode( 'custom_rss', 'execute_custom_rss_shortcode' );
function execute_custom_rss_shortcode() {
  return do_shortcode('[wp_rss_retriever url="https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=' . get_the_title() . '&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" items="8" excerpt="50" read_more="true" credits="false" new_window="true" cache="1800"]');
}

• This reply was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by wordmax.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by wordmax.

For example, I created a custom function so I can insert shortcode on a page or post to display tag cloud within. The function can be added to the theme’s functions.php file but it will get over-written with a theme update. So I can use a plugin like My Custom Functions to insert/add my custom function, but I would use Ad Inserter instead to include the function if it works so I don’t use an extra plugin if it’s not necessary.

custom function example for tag cloud shortcode:
add_shortcode( 'native_tagcloud', 'wp_tag_cloud' );