How do I add a category or tag to posts from a particular feed

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Q. How do I add a category or tag to posts from a particular feed?

A: Let’s say you want to categorize or tag posts by the blog that they were syndicated from — so that, for example, all posts that come in from your Google News sources are tagged “Google,” or so that all posts that come in from Getting Rich Slowly are put in the “Advice” category. You can do this easily from within FeedWordPress’s administrative interface.

Log in to your WordPress Dashboard using your administrator username and password.
Go to the FeedWordPress administrative interface by clicking through to the Syndication page.
Pull up the Categories & Tags settings page for the feed whose posts you want to apply the category or tags to. The easiest way to do this is to go to the “Syndicated sources” table and hover your mouse over the source that you want to work with. Several options should appear underneath; click on “Settings > Categories & Tags.”
To add one or more categories to any posts that come in from this feed, scroll down to the Categories box on the Categories & Tags Settings page, There should be a selection box marked “All posts: Give all posts from this feed these categories.” You can check whatever category or categories you want. To add one or more tags to any posts that come in from this feed, scroll down past the Categories box to the Tags box; there should be a text box marked “Tag all posts from this feed as…” Type in one or more tags, separated by commas, and mash the “Add” button to apply them.
When you’ve finished adding Categories and Tags, mash the “Save Changes” button at the bottom of the page.

From there on out, any incoming syndicated posts from that feed should be placed under the category or categories that you selected.

Does that answer your question? If not, use the Talk page to comment on this post or contact me by e-mail for help. Be sure to describe what you are trying to do, and the problems you are running into, with as much detail as possible.

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I have comment this part of code in syndicatedpost.class.php

        // Now add categories from the post, if we have 'em
        $this->post['named']['category'] = array();
        if ( isset($this->item['category#']) ) :

                    -/-

        $this->post['named']['category'] = apply_filters('syndicated_item_categories', $this->post['named']['category'], $this);

We are simply not using category tags from posts Hack , but it works.

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Hello, I am using Feedwordpress 2010.0127 on WP 2.7.10

I want to set all posts from feeds to have assigned one category I select, But instead, is adding this one category + matching category from feeded site, How to avoid this

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1 Vote more for the auto-tagging. Is it possible to retrieve tags from the original posts?

Sincerely, Esben

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Tags are now working on my version v2010.0127 & WP v2.9.1 but I still am not able to update the post with the original tags that the post may have come with, in other words there is no auto tagging feature. Although, I found that simple tags 1.7.1-rc1.2 works quite well.

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i have the same problem

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Using latest FeedWordpress v2009.1112 & WP v2.9.1

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Adding tags doesn’t work for me. I can type in the text box, but nothing happens when I click the Add button. I guess it’s supposed to work like the “standard” Post Tags box?

I use WordPress 2.9.1 + FeedWordPress 2009.1112.

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well i’m trying to understand the Filter concept, but it’s too expert for my very low php knowledge.

But i do understand that this is the WordPress plugin i need for my feeds.

in the Filter example plugin: FWP+: Filter in “Lorem ipsum” posts you can filter very well with content search. Thats great the $item=NULL work good, but im try to make a filter to add the Post to a specific category.

let say you filter $content with ‘/France/’ .. and if string find, the post goes to “France” category in wordpress (category already create before), if not $item=null.

is this possible with this filter method? it seems possible but i cant do it :/ help really appreciated .. thank for read.

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Hi,

Is it possible to automaticly create a category (with the feed id) when a new feed url is created?

Thanks

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Let’s say I have a post that is in two different feeds (say two different sources that carry the same AP Story for example). And for each feed I have assigned a different category. So we have a post that has the following situation: Post is in feed A and category X. Post is in feed B and category Z.

Right now, FWP essentially ignores the post from what I can tell when feed B parses it. So it isn’t assigned to category Z. The post stays assigned to only feed A and category X. I tried going thru the code quickly but it’ll take a deeper dive to find where this logic is. The question is, is this relatively easy to implement with FWP or is this outside the framework?

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