FeedWordPress 0.992: author remapping and URI bug fix

Hi... i've installed the plugin and have some questions:

1) i've set an update every 300 minutes but it shows as next update about an hour;

2) the site is on windows server and not support cron command by terminal. This plugin works anywhere? It check the feed but not seem update the posts.

tnx and sorry for my english :p

People like myself would be more willing to donate $$ if you had a web based forum where those of us who use the plugin can get some sort of tech support. The plugin does not work all the time so I had to remove it from my site. You never responded to the 5 emails I have sent. Make it open source and then more people would be willing to contribute..

I have a question while preparing for the latest WP upgrade.

I have the WP plug-in "Upgrade Pre-Flight Check" install, and it reports that FeedWordPress 0.992 has incompatibilities. Specifically "Possibly incompatible: old category table".

Will this result in messing up my WP 2.3.3 database?

I think there could be a bug in category choice. When I specify a category for a single syndicated feed, even if "Syndicated feed settings updated" is shown, the setting is lost and new posts still appear on default syndicated category.

It looks like FeedWordpress might still be choking on URIs with ampersands. I've just readded some feeds with ampersands in the URIs that weren't being syndicated on my site, and the edit page for each feed seems to stop loading after it reaches a certain point in the category list.

Oops, my bad - there looks like there's just a bug in the category handling code that wasn't there in 0.991.

would be super fantastic to offer option of tagging posts using feature like autotags, see Ricky's post in last upgrade comments.

to make simple-tags auto tag, whenever as post is saved, published, or syndicated (using feedwordpress), using local tags only, change these lines open simple-tags/inc/simple-tags.admin.php, v1.3.8 only tested

93 // 14. Auto tags
94 if ( $this->options['use_auto_tags'] == 1 ) {
95 add_action('save_post', array(&$this, 'saveAutoTags'));
96 add_action('publish_post', array(&$this, 'saveEmbedTags'));
97 }

to:

93 // 14. Auto tags
94 if ( $this->options['use_auto_tags'] == 1 ) {
95 add_action('save_post', array(&$this, 'saveAutoTags'));
96 add_action('publish_post', array(&$this, 'saveEmbedTags'));
97 add_action('publish_post', array(&$this, 'saveAutoTags'));
98 add_action('post_syndicated_item', array(&$this, 'saveAutoTags'));
99 }

the plugins I am using adsense manager,all in one seo pack,bsuite,feedburner feedsmith,feedcontrol,feedwordpress,siderss,inlinerss,googlexmlsitemaps,image manager, simple-tags, subscribe me, and ultimate google analytics.

simple-tags would not auto tag with this combination, and pressing update or update selected feeds apparently are not same as updating when the front page is opened or using cronjob

I followed the instructions to the letter, add the feeds and then get a blank page (backend headers/options still there, but no feedwordpress options_. If I vlick the syndication button it shows the feed info, but when I update usine either the main update button or via checking boxes, it always shows zero updates, the end result being nothing posted.

link link link

Thanks for any insight.

Still no support for embedded (flv) videos?

HI!

It seems I can't save feeds specific settings. I mean that general settings are applied correctlu on every feed. But if I want one feed to have, for example, a different destination category and I change the cat setting for that feed only, the change is not saved.

Tell me if you need some log or something. Thanks, Alessandro

I'm getting feeds from photobucket and I was wondering if it's possible to make all images appear in a single post instead of separate posts for each image

Where should i post bug i've found ?

thanks

This is a great plug-in. The only problem for me right now, however, is that sometimes the permalinks will not point to the original website, and instead point to the post on my site (with no links or other ways to get to the original site). Is this a feed error, or a known bug in the plug-in?

Thanks!

The plugin is unable to read Podpress formatted RSS feeds even though they are valid RSS. Example:

http://catholicfamilykids.com/goto/episodes/feed/

The plugin displays the last post during the setup and everything appears to be setup correctly, but then when the feed is updated, nothing is downloaded.

HELP!

I agree with Timothy B.

where should we discuss about bugs?

Is it feasible for you to release the source code so that someone else may try some bugfix ?

In my opinion the plugin is good, but it needs more support and testing.

Well here's what I did for the autotagging part

Download the software from http://www.semiologic.com/software/publishing/autotag/

Drop the extract-terms.php into the feedwordpress dir.

Edit the feedwordpress.php

• Do an include somewhere at the top

  include_once dirname(FILE). '/extract-terms.php';

• Comment the_content filters I dont write my own posts, just feedwordpress posts

  // add_filter('the_content', 'feedwordpress_preserve_syndicated_content', -10000);
  // add_filter('the_content', 'feedwordpress_restore_syndicated_content', 10000);
  

• add an action below the fwp_publish_post_hook action

  add_action('publish_post', 'autotag_entry');
  

• add the autotag function below the fwp_publish_post_hook function around line 1630

  
  function autotag_entry($post_id)
      {
            $post = get_post($post_id);
              $terms = get_the_post_terms($post);
  
              if ( $terms )
              {
                  $tags = '';
  
                  foreach ( $terms as $term )
                  {
                        $tags .= ( $tags ? ', ' : '' ) . $term;
                   }
  
                  wp_set_post_tags($post_id, $tags, true);
              }
      }
  

Hi, thanks for this plugin. Im actually working on an atheistic german Blog-Planet ( Blog-Planet Beta. Your plugin is very easy to use, so that a WP and hph-newbie like me can use it. Just one question is open: Why is that more-tags are erased vom imported Posts and how can I change that?

Does anybody know a way to let feedwordpress adjust the post slugs? Post titles containing special chars get a very ugly url.

example:

' becomes %e2%80%99 " becomes %e2%80%9c21

Most trackbacks and other backlinks break because they strip out the %

I noticed that some special chars are stripped properly like: , ! ? Can the same be done for " ' and possible other special chars

I'm completely stuck and can use any help anyone can provide. I did everything according to the installation instructions but when I hit "activate" I get:

Error 500 - Internal server error An internal server error has occured! Please try again later.

I use WP 2.3 with 1and1 hosting.

Any ideas?

Hi, I'm using FeedWordPress to get the post from various sites to my mainsite. It all works fine till now.

But there is one Problem. I write the blog at extreeeme.org in two languages, and the other sites english only. Is there a Way to mark all "imported" Posts with a graphic in front of it. My readers get a little confused about the english Posts on the German language blog.

Hope there is a way to mark them as imported

@ David. Usually this is due to the .htaccess file - It containes syntax errors - It's not read or processed properly

Has anyone been able to get any of the recent comments plugins working with FeedWordPress? On our site, all recent comments link to the same permalink, and I can't figure out why (see sidebar at http://hermenaut.org and hover mouse over comment links). Thanks to anyone who has cracked this nut...

Every time I save a feed to a category that has a parent, it doesn't save changes. Is there a work around?

Duplicate posts everywhere! I've looked for help at the Wordpress forum and people are still getting random dups from lots of different feeds. It never seems to be consistant to one fee.

Ideas?

I think it would be better if Charles put a wiki for Feedwordpress at radgeek.com, and indeed I asked him to do so a few months ago, but until he does, at least people who need to use his software can collaborate with one another. You can find this wiki at http://feedwordpress.pbwiki.com/

http://martin.cleaver.org/blog/2008/03/25/feedwordpress-wiki-for-users-c...

great plugin. I do have a couple suggestions:

1. Allow users to assigns permamlink to original page or local page on a feed by feed basis.

2. Give users more control over the feed content coming into. For instance, one of my feeds forces and RSS graphic to show up before my title. If I could somehow set to auto remove a specific piece if code (Find & Remove) that would fix this issue.

Overall, great plugin.

Thank you for an excellent plugin. May I make one suggestion for a feature? Import categories as tags.

The planet-like site I'm building uses tags for navigation rather than categories. I would like to gather feeds from friendly sites and include them in the tag system.

True, under manage/import, wordpress has got the feature to turn categories into tags, but this does not work when a tag with the same name as the category already exists. (Which will automatically be the case after a few feed updates, having previously turned categories into tags.)

I've got this setup, but was disappointed there was not an option to truncate long posts with a "read more" link to the original post. Is this a setting or API function I missed? If not would it be possible to add this as a feature in a future release?

I'm putting together a mu-menu for feedwordpress. This will show all blogs and all feeds for all those blogs.

We'll document on pbwiki for now.

http://feedwordpress.pbwiki.com/Mu-Menu-for-Feedwordpress

Once we've built this we'll help push it back into SVN.

[...] was getting printed incorrectly. I added print statements throughout the feed building code (FeedWordPress) until it was obvious that my first thought was correct, a file had whitespace before or after the [...]

I have a couple of times now where I have had to track down blank lines which broke my FeedWordPress feed. I just posted how to find and correct this at link.

Hopefully other find this helpful.

Hi, I used an older version and upgrade to the lastest one. However, when I add in new feeds, it doesn't show up in the Option page. The categories are all set correctly but the feeds are not being pulled.

Wonder if you know of this problem.

Hello. Great plugin, but do you know why target="_blank" is removed from the original rss-feed? I'd like all links in syndicated posts to open in a new window....

Hi, this is just what I am looking for. Just one question. Is there a way where the links on Homepage will point to the post and the permalinks on the post will point to the original website when clicked?

Right now my permalinks on the Homepage is ponting to the original website and not on the posts. When I change the settings to "Permalinks points to this website" viewers will have no way to go to original website.

Also how can I limit the contents of the posts to lets say only 300 characters only then it will have a "continue reading" at the end where it was ponting to the original website.

Thanks in advance.

Hi there - Does anyone happen to know please whether the latest version of FeedWordPress is compatible with WordPress 2.5? I'm keen to upgrade to WP 2.5 but won't go near it if there's a compatibility problem. Many thanks. Richard.

Seems to work ok with 2.5.

I'm getting the same duplicate issues as Jack... If it helps, its a feed managed by feedburner. Also, I have "Do not create new categories" set but I keep finding new categories each update (in addition to ~20 duplicate posts).

Anyone else having these errors in WP 2.3.3 ?

After upgrade WordPress to 2.5 all messages are imported in the same category "Uncategorized" :(

Chris Jennings and Jack,

Here is a fixed version of FeedWordPress 0.992 which has no duplicate problem: http://www.cyberseo.net/downloads/feedwordpress-0992.zip

Hope this is what you were looking for!

Ok. The mu-menu is complete.

Please see http://feedwordpress.pbwiki.com/Mu-Menu-for-Feedwordpress

If you make bug fixes please alter the wiki.

I emailed Charles about getting SVN access - when I get a reply I will update.

I'm having issues with a fresh installation of FeedWordPress in Wordpress 2.5. Whilst the feed preview functions when adding a new feed, the feed does not appear in the list of feeds, and an update gives the message "An error has occurred."

Am I missing an obvious installation step?

Thanks.

I upgraded to new Wordpress 2.5 from my old version 2.3.3 and I get duplicate posts...

Since I've updated to WP 2.5 I've noticed several anomalies in FeedWordPress's behavior. It seems like FWP simply doesn't parse the bodies of many feeds, and I've been unable to narrow down the types of feeds on which this behavior occurs. In certain cases, simply updating the feed URL (to the same URL) fixes the problem, but not all the time. But this appears to be happening with both RSS (2.0 and 1) and Atom feeds.

The latest posts at leftlibertarian.org should illustrate this problem.

After upgrading to wordpress 2.5, FWP only writes the permalink to the original blog if the syndication is done manually. If it is automatic, it always points to the aggregator site itself.

Great Plugin. But im having some problems with scheduled fetching. it wont do anything. Maybe it gets fixed in the next version.

btw. all the people who are getting duplicate posts. i found this solution for wp-o-matic. and the best thing is this works for feedwordpress to. have fun!

http://akschu.com/offtopic-stuff-2/wp-o-matic-duplicate-post-fix/

Axel

I too have noticed issues with FWP and WP 2.5. Specifically, all categories are being stripped and set to "Uncategorized". Additionally, some incoming post content is being blanked while some content is being replaced with the letter "A".

Since upgrading to wordpress 2.5 feed wordpress is only posting headlines and no post body. Anyone else getting this?

I'm building a lifestream with your plugin! Here it is link

I had only one problem with the Google Calendar public feed. I've already sent you an email with the error code.

BTW your plugin is amazing. Thanks!

Sorry for my poor english. Greetings from Italy!

I think there's a bug when I send a feed to a post with youtube video inside. When I click my home page it send me an error like this: http://www.piccoliproblemidicuore.it/

http://feeds.feedburner.com/sportsblog/thebandisoutonthefield

Feedwordpress will use the excerpt of EVERY feed except this one. use of the_excerpt still returns in the entire post. any ideas?

the address is http://feeds.feedburner.com/sportsblogs/thebandisoutonthefield

Hi I've installed feedpress, but there's one issue that I can't solve. I've several feeds to syndacate, and I choosen to add new post as drafts, so I can read them and decide to post it or not.

The problem is: when I decide not to post something, when that feed is updated again, I have to read again such post. I'd like to have only new post listed, and then decide what I want to publish and what I want not. Is there a feature like that available?

Thank you

I wish there it could truncate long posts, too.

@ Andrew....

Same problem. I have seen this with a bunch of feeds. Any reason why?

I might be missing something but, all of my posts show twice in the post...(the headline and excerpt) in each post. Is there something that I'm missing. Thanks for any help...

Same problem with Sean here. Each rss feed posts the content twice. To illustrate, say my post is "What a wonderful day!", this sentence will show up twice in my post. I checked all of them and every post seems to display the content twice!

Hi. This is a great plugin, which I have been using for quite some time now. A question: is there a way to include the tags from a del.icio.us feed into the post, either as tags or categories? I'm using WordPress 2.5. Thanks.

Any idea how to make visitors view the post on my website as a single item and then go to the source through a link?

I can't add a permalink to the single.php file because it goes back to my website because that's how I set feedwordpress. I want viewers to see the post before they click on and go away to the source.

Any ideas? I saw SX having a plugin or something?