Comments on: Aggregation Tools For WordPress: The Pros And Cons of FeedWordPress and WP-o-Matic http://blog.kaplak.net/2008/10/19/messing-around-with-timestamps-the-pros-and-cons-of-feedwordpress-and-wp-o-matic/ An inquiry into the slim end of the long tail Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:41:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Yet Another Sweet Little Autoblogger — Captain's log http://blog.kaplak.net/2008/10/19/messing-around-with-timestamps-the-pros-and-cons-of-feedwordpress-and-wp-o-matic/comment-page-1/#comment-494 Yet Another Sweet Little Autoblogger — Captain's log Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:35:01 +0000 http://blog.kaplak.com/?p=304#comment-494 [...] Yet Another Autoblogger or YAAB in short. It is developed by Satheesh Kumar, who was kind enough to post a note on the blog about it just recently: I too have made a similar but better plugin called YAAB-Autoblogger. Yaab has all [...] [...] Yet Another Autoblogger or YAAB in short. It is developed by Satheesh Kumar, who was kind enough to post a note on the blog about it just recently: I too have made a similar but better plugin called YAAB-Autoblogger. Yaab has all [...]

]]> By: Vincent http://blog.kaplak.net/2008/10/19/messing-around-with-timestamps-the-pros-and-cons-of-feedwordpress-and-wp-o-matic/comment-page-1/#comment-485 Vincent Wed, 26 May 2010 17:21:53 +0000 http://blog.kaplak.com/?p=304#comment-485 Brandon, could you explain what you found in the readme file? I don't get what "reinstalling these files" mean and even after upgrading the magpierss files, atom feeds do not display correctly. we're using the latest (2010-01-27) feedwordpress on wordpress 2.9 thanks Brandon, could you explain what you found in the readme file? I don’t get what “reinstalling these files” mean and even after upgrading the magpierss files, atom feeds do not display correctly.

we’re using the latest (2010-01-27) feedwordpress on wordpress 2.9

thanks

]]> By: Barry http://blog.kaplak.net/2008/10/19/messing-around-with-timestamps-the-pros-and-cons-of-feedwordpress-and-wp-o-matic/comment-page-1/#comment-454 Barry Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:50:24 +0000 http://blog.kaplak.com/?p=304#comment-454 there is no configuration link in the admin panel for either of these plugins. anybody else have this problem? or does it get edited in the code? Thanks there is no configuration link in the admin panel for either of these plugins. anybody else have this problem? or does it get edited in the code? Thanks

]]> By: brandon http://blog.kaplak.net/2008/10/19/messing-around-with-timestamps-the-pros-and-cons-of-feedwordpress-and-wp-o-matic/comment-page-1/#comment-465 brandon Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:35:42 +0000 http://blog.kaplak.com/?p=304#comment-465 sorry, please ignore my previous comment, found the answer in the readme file! sorry, please ignore my previous comment, found the answer in the readme file!

]]> By: Brandon http://blog.kaplak.net/2008/10/19/messing-around-with-timestamps-the-pros-and-cons-of-feedwordpress-and-wp-o-matic/comment-page-1/#comment-464 Brandon Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:35:01 +0000 http://blog.kaplak.com/?p=304#comment-464 Hi there, what do you mean by reinstalling these files? > At first glance, the problem wasn’t fixed by exchanging the rss.php and rss-functions.php with the updated ones bundled with FeedWordPress, but reinstalling these files Hi there, what do you mean by reinstalling these files?

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At first glance, the problem wasn’t fixed by exchanging the rss.php and rss-functions.php with the updated ones bundled with FeedWordPress, but reinstalling these files

]]> By: Blogging Tips http://blog.kaplak.net/2008/10/19/messing-around-with-timestamps-the-pros-and-cons-of-feedwordpress-and-wp-o-matic/comment-page-1/#comment-372 Blogging Tips Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:48:01 +0000 http://blog.kaplak.com/?p=304#comment-372 i also prefer feedwordpress over wp-o-matic due to cron problems and uncotability with newsest wordpress versions in the soft. i also prefer feedwordpress over wp-o-matic due to cron problems and uncotability with newsest wordpress versions in the soft.

]]> By: Yet Another Autoblogger — Kaplak Blog http://blog.kaplak.net/2008/10/19/messing-around-with-timestamps-the-pros-and-cons-of-feedwordpress-and-wp-o-matic/comment-page-1/#comment-380 Yet Another Autoblogger — Kaplak Blog Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:30:10 +0000 http://blog.kaplak.com/?p=304#comment-380 [...] Yet Another Autoblogger or YAAB in short. It is developed by Satheesh Kumar, who was kind enough to post a note on the blog about it just recently : I too have made a similar but better plugin called YAAB-Autoblogger. Yaab has all [...] [...] Yet Another Autoblogger or YAAB in short. It is developed by Satheesh Kumar, who was kind enough to post a note on the blog about it just recently : I too have made a similar but better plugin called YAAB-Autoblogger. Yaab has all [...]

]]> By: Morten Blaabjerg http://blog.kaplak.net/2008/10/19/messing-around-with-timestamps-the-pros-and-cons-of-feedwordpress-and-wp-o-matic/comment-page-1/#comment-379 Morten Blaabjerg Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:21:44 +0000 http://blog.kaplak.com/?p=304#comment-379 Satheesh, thank you for these great news! I look forward to taking a closer look at Yet Another Autoblogger! :-) Sometimes I wish that the talents of you and all your great comrade autoblogging pioneers (Guillermo and RadGeek and others) would combine forces to work on one great open source GPL'ed plugin, root out all the bugs and combine the truly great features of each plugin with the other. I don't know why that's not the case - all would benefit, I think, from a joint effort. But I certainly welcome any effort or new project which makes it less painful to aggregate web content for normal, no-tech-savvy web publishers. Satheesh, thank you for these great news! I look forward to taking a closer look at Yet Another Autoblogger! :-)

Sometimes I wish that the talents of you and all your great comrade autoblogging pioneers (Guillermo and RadGeek and others) would combine forces to work on one great open source GPL’ed plugin, root out all the bugs and combine the truly great features of each plugin with the other.

I don’t know why that’s not the case – all would benefit, I think, from a joint effort. But I certainly welcome any effort or new project which makes it less painful to aggregate web content for normal, no-tech-savvy web publishers.

]]> By: Satheesh http://blog.kaplak.net/2008/10/19/messing-around-with-timestamps-the-pros-and-cons-of-feedwordpress-and-wp-o-matic/comment-page-1/#comment-378 Satheesh Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:21:03 +0000 http://blog.kaplak.com/?p=304#comment-378 Dear friend, I too have made a similar but better plugin called YAAB-Autoblogger. Yaab has all features of wp-o-matic and in addition it can create automatic blog carnivals in your site. Also it supports SMS blogging and Youtube cloning. Ebay product syndication and automated content rewriting are upcoming features. After all I myself is a doctor ( not a programmer ). I started making this plugin for my personal use, but when I doveloped it, it was highly impressing and I have planned to release it for public. Kindly download it from www.psypo.com/yaab , try it and if possible please review it in your valuable blog Thank You Satheesh Dear friend,
I too have made a similar but better plugin called YAAB-Autoblogger. Yaab has all features of wp-o-matic and in addition it can create automatic blog carnivals in your site. Also it supports SMS blogging and Youtube cloning. Ebay product syndication and automated content rewriting are upcoming features. After all I myself is a doctor ( not a programmer ). I started making this plugin for my personal use, but when I doveloped it, it was highly impressing and I have planned to release it for public. Kindly download it from http://www.psypo.com/yaab , try it and if possible please review it in your valuable blog
Thank You
Satheesh

]]> By: Morten Blaabjerg http://blog.kaplak.net/2008/10/19/messing-around-with-timestamps-the-pros-and-cons-of-feedwordpress-and-wp-o-matic/comment-page-1/#comment-374 Morten Blaabjerg Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:08:27 +0000 http://blog.kaplak.com/?p=304#comment-374 Great :-) I'd appreciate it greatly. We're almost ready, but every time I say that another detail appears to be dealt with, but will be _soon_! I'll add you to my Kaplak GMail-group and be sure to get in touch when we ask for more feed submissions :-) Great :-) I’d appreciate it greatly. We’re almost ready, but every time I say that another detail appears to be dealt with, but will be _soon_!

I’ll add you to my Kaplak GMail-group and be sure to get in touch when we ask for more feed submissions :-)

]]> By: sufehmi http://blog.kaplak.net/2008/10/19/messing-around-with-timestamps-the-pros-and-cons-of-feedwordpress-and-wp-o-matic/comment-page-1/#comment-373 sufehmi Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:48:31 +0000 http://blog.kaplak.com/?p=304#comment-373 Holy Wow ! Kaplak Stream looks AWESOME. If you'd like to test, I might be able to help. A friend of mine also own an extensive network of blogs, multi language, at AsiaBlogging.com He'd definitely be interested on such things that will enable him to fully maximize his existing content. When you're ready to test Kaplak Stream,let me know. Thanks. Holy Wow ! Kaplak Stream looks AWESOME.

If you’d like to test, I might be able to help. A friend of mine also own an extensive network of blogs, multi language, at AsiaBlogging.com

He’d definitely be interested on such things that will enable him to fully maximize his existing content.

When you’re ready to test Kaplak Stream,let me know.

Thanks.

]]> By: FeedWordPress Extensive Update | Kaplak Blog http://blog.kaplak.net/2008/10/19/messing-around-with-timestamps-the-pros-and-cons-of-feedwordpress-and-wp-o-matic/comment-page-1/#comment-385 FeedWordPress Extensive Update | Kaplak Blog Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:17:06 +0000 http://blog.kaplak.com/?p=304#comment-385 [...] Find our earlier review of FeedWordPress and WP-o-Matic here. [...] [...] Find our earlier review of FeedWordPress and WP-o-Matic here. [...]

]]> By: Morten Blaabjerg http://blog.kaplak.net/2008/10/19/messing-around-with-timestamps-the-pros-and-cons-of-feedwordpress-and-wp-o-matic/comment-page-1/#comment-384 Morten Blaabjerg Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:53:26 +0000 http://blog.kaplak.com/?p=304#comment-384 You're welcome - wish I could be of more help. Took a look at your blog - is that Indonesian? I'm just curious. I wonder how well we'll do with feeds of mixed languages in <a href="http://blog.kaplak.net/2008/10/28/anatomy-of-kaplak-stream-connecting-the-disconnected/" rel="nofollow">Kaplak Stream</a>. I wonder how well our Calais autotagger plugin would do with a blog of mixed languages such as yours. You’re welcome – wish I could be of more help. Took a look at your blog – is that Indonesian?

I’m just curious. I wonder how well we’ll do with feeds of mixed languages in Kaplak Stream. I wonder how well our Calais autotagger plugin would do with a blog of mixed languages such as yours.

]]> By: sufehmi http://blog.kaplak.net/2008/10/19/messing-around-with-timestamps-the-pros-and-cons-of-feedwordpress-and-wp-o-matic/comment-page-1/#comment-383 sufehmi Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:43:34 +0000 http://blog.kaplak.com/?p=304#comment-383 Alright, thanks. I guess it's FriendsFeed then : http://blog.slaven.net.au/wordpress-plugins/friendfeed-comments-wordpress-plugin/ Looks like it's harvesting other's contents via their APIs. Now if only FF is able to show the comments as well - then we're set. Thanks for your reply. Alright, thanks. I guess it’s FriendsFeed then : http://blog.slaven.net.au/wordpress-plugins/friendfeed-comments-wordpress-plugin/

Looks like it’s harvesting other’s contents via their APIs.

Now if only FF is able to show the comments as well – then we’re set.

Thanks for your reply.

]]> By: Morten Blaabjerg http://blog.kaplak.net/2008/10/19/messing-around-with-timestamps-the-pros-and-cons-of-feedwordpress-and-wp-o-matic/comment-page-1/#comment-382 Morten Blaabjerg Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:18:06 +0000 http://blog.kaplak.com/?p=304#comment-382 Can't be of much help I'm afraid. It's a big problem that many of these services are proprietary and not concerned with providing users with options of getting their "content" out. Plurk offers feeds from your plurk stream (and others' plurk streams?), so as you say, you can easily fetch those with FeedWordPress or something similar. It doesn't look like Plurk offer feeds from comments to individual plurks, though, but I could be wrong. Facebook is a whole other department, as they don't offer feeds or exports at all - let me know if you discover methods to retrieve your stuff from there. Can’t be of much help I’m afraid. It’s a big problem that many of these services are proprietary and not concerned with providing users with options of getting their “content” out.

Plurk offers feeds from your plurk stream (and others’ plurk streams?), so as you say, you can easily fetch those with FeedWordPress or something similar. It doesn’t look like Plurk offer feeds from comments to individual plurks, though, but I could be wrong.

Facebook is a whole other department, as they don’t offer feeds or exports at all – let me know if you discover methods to retrieve your stuff from there.

]]> By: sufehmi http://blog.kaplak.net/2008/10/19/messing-around-with-timestamps-the-pros-and-cons-of-feedwordpress-and-wp-o-matic/comment-page-1/#comment-381 sufehmi Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:38:58 +0000 http://blog.kaplak.com/?p=304#comment-381 Hi, I'm currently trying to aggregate my contents on various social network (facebook, plurk) into Wordpress. Some folks called this "lifestreaming" Especially plurk - your posts there will become obscure in as little as 24 hours ! Things moves very fast there. That would be easy - however, I'd like to aggregate the comments as well :) Especially plurk - the comments are what made it worth it. I've looked high and low, however I still haven't managed to find anything that will do this (aggregate the posts and its comments) Any ideas ?? Hi, I’m currently trying to aggregate my contents on various social network (facebook, plurk) into WordPress. Some folks called this “lifestreaming”

Especially plurk – your posts there will become obscure in as little as 24 hours ! Things moves very fast there.

That would be easy – however, I’d like to aggregate the comments as well :)

Especially plurk – the comments are what made it worth it.

I’ve looked high and low, however I still haven’t managed to find anything that will do this (aggregate the posts and its comments)

Any ideas ??

]]> By: murph http://blog.kaplak.net/2008/10/19/messing-around-with-timestamps-the-pros-and-cons-of-feedwordpress-and-wp-o-matic/comment-page-1/#comment-377 murph Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:43:05 +0000 http://blog.kaplak.com/?p=304#comment-377 thanks Morten. i am looking to actually get them posted on the blog (and therefore my site's RSS feed). i am using a Google embed to show them on the sidebar of my blog now, but those who only read my feed never see those links unless they click through. thanks Morten. i am looking to actually get them posted on the blog (and therefore my site’s RSS feed). i am using a Google embed to show them on the sidebar of my blog now, but those who only read my feed never see those links unless they click through.

]]> By: Morten Blaabjerg http://blog.kaplak.net/2008/10/19/messing-around-with-timestamps-the-pros-and-cons-of-feedwordpress-and-wp-o-matic/comment-page-1/#comment-376 Morten Blaabjerg Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:39:00 +0000 http://blog.kaplak.com/?p=304#comment-376 @murph FeedWordPress does the job. I have used it successfully with my own Google Reader Atom feeds, and they work well. The WP-cron built in will work for you the way you describe. WP-o-Matic parses Reader's Atom feeds well too, but I found it too unreliable. There may be other reasons you may want to go with it, especially if you can get Unix/Linux cron, and don't need to fetch a lot of old items (which will make you unable to use the timestamps of feed items). EDIT: After reading your comment again, I'm not sure if you want your blog to actually parse and post the items or just leave a list in your sidebar of your latest shared headlines. If it's the last, you'll be able to find plenty of plugins which may do a better job than the two plugins examined here, which are focused mainly on actual posting of fed items. @murph FeedWordPress does the job. I have used it successfully with my own Google Reader Atom feeds, and they work well. The WP-cron built in will work for you the way you describe.

WP-o-Matic parses Reader’s Atom feeds well too, but I found it too unreliable. There may be other reasons you may want to go with it, especially if you can get Unix/Linux cron, and don’t need to fetch a lot of old items (which will make you unable to use the timestamps of feed items).

EDIT: After reading your comment again, I’m not sure if you want your blog to actually parse and post the items or just leave a list in your sidebar of your latest shared headlines. If it’s the last, you’ll be able to find plenty of plugins which may do a better job than the two plugins examined here, which are focused mainly on actual posting of fed items.

]]> By: murph http://blog.kaplak.net/2008/10/19/messing-around-with-timestamps-the-pros-and-cons-of-feedwordpress-and-wp-o-matic/comment-page-1/#comment-375 murph Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:05:02 +0000 http://blog.kaplak.com/?p=304#comment-375 I'm trying to find a plugin that would parse my Google Reader Shared Items RSS feed 1x/day and auto-post the newest links. Would either of these fit the bill? I’m trying to find a plugin that would parse my Google Reader Shared Items RSS feed 1x/day and auto-post the newest links. Would either of these fit the bill?

]]> By: Morten Blaabjerg http://blog.kaplak.net/2008/10/19/messing-around-with-timestamps-the-pros-and-cons-of-feedwordpress-and-wp-o-matic/comment-page-1/#comment-370 Morten Blaabjerg Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:15:03 +0000 http://blog.kaplak.com/?p=304#comment-370 Guillermo, thanks for the comment! Sounds like great stuff. I'll stay tuned, and I'm really really looking forward to it, as I really liked your plugin and I have great respect for your talents :-) As I wrote in the above, I especially liked the wonderful customization tools. The present release just turned out to be a tad too unreliable for us. Guillermo, thanks for the comment! Sounds like great stuff. I’ll stay tuned, and I’m really really looking forward to it, as I really liked your plugin and I have great respect for your talents :-) As I wrote in the above, I especially liked the wonderful customization tools. The present release just turned out to be a tad too unreliable for us.

]]> By: Guillermo Rauch http://blog.kaplak.net/2008/10/19/messing-around-with-timestamps-the-pros-and-cons-of-feedwordpress-and-wp-o-matic/comment-page-1/#comment-371 Guillermo Rauch Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:44:31 +0000 http://blog.kaplak.com/?p=304#comment-371 Hopefully, with WP-o-Matic 1.0 with plugins support and a smart pseudocron, you'll reverse you decision :) Hopefully, with WP-o-Matic 1.0 with plugins support and a smart pseudocron, you’ll reverse you decision :)

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