WP-o-Matic - RSS Feeds
 

Hey all you WP-o-Matic users... I've been scouring the net today but can't find what I'm looking for. Can anyone shed any light on how to use the Custom Template section?

Most of the RSS feeds I am getting from sponsors are set up in such a way that the "Content" includes a thumbnail of some description + the long text content. Is there a way to extract the image from the content, so that it can be incorporated in to a custom template?

Any info would be great. Thanks

I would think this might do it. Theres a free version you can try.

http://ba.cheapestwebsoftware.com/

Thanks Nate, I'll check it out.

i didn`t try yet BA , only Blog Organizer.
However daddyv , it depend on what you need.If you wanna build fast some blogs and put them to autopilot than bo is for you.If you wanna just manage created blogs , than BA is your chose.

This is what I think he wants to do: Pull a sponsor feed into a database then output a new feed based on a template that is only a thumbail linked to something like a gallery... no text.

I've been using the free version of gallery scraper to yank FHGs, build a thumbail, add some text then output that to an xml which I then am using to stock a fake TGP. I always wondered how to use those thousands of FHGs. :-)

Sound like a good idea.The only thing that sucks is to sending blogs traffic to FHGs where ratios is so damn crappy, like all rss feeds :(

Hey thanks for the replies. Really all I want to do is change the layout of the way the content is displayed... generally in my experience most feeds come in like so:

{content}
Blah blah blah blah blah{content}

At the moment I've either been pulling the content apart using php string functions and displaying the content in whatever format I require... however WP-o-Matic has a "custom template" section that I thought might automaticaly achieve what I want.

I've had a quick look at ba, but I'll check both ba and bo out soon

thanks for the info

If you know enough php, just hack the wp-o-matic plugin to do what you want. I dont think the custom templates will work, because they dont split up the content of the post in the rss feed, which is what you are wanting to do.

If you are good with string functions and regex, it should be trivial to put in 2 lines of code in the while loop to do exactly what you want to each "post" in the array before it goes into your blog. I'm not all that great at php syntax or I'd offer to be more helpful. Really all you need is to do is delete the text inside the content before and after each linked image instead of trying to "extract" the image.

I've always WP-o-Matic never works as it is supposed to.

One of the scripts at http://www.cheapestwebsoftware.com/ has a temaplte feature... can't think of which one, sorry