What are the risks in running wp-autoblog and the like?

[Bill]

Originally Posted by walrus

I would assume that the links were probably in the author section and you are not giving attribution to the original author. But thats just a guess. Before you do that you may want to edit the plug-in as it's author likes to add his own little bit to it as well.

I thought that was a possibility, selected giving attribution to original author, and reran the script - no change in the posts it had already made. Then I removed the feed url I was testing from the settings, planning to experiment more with it later.

What do you mean, edit the plugin? What would I edit out, in this case?

[walrus]

It won't change the posts that have already been made. You'll need to delete a post and then re-run the script. It only updates the database when it finds something has changed.

You could edit wp-autoblog.php line 161

$post['post_content'] .= ' and <em>software</em> by <a href="http://elliottback.com">Elliott Back</a>';
} else {
$post['post_content'] .= 'Created using <em>software</em> by <a href="http://elliottback.com">Elliott Back</a>';

and remove the link.

I'm not a php kind of guy so I simply did this:

$post['post_content'] .= ' ';
} else {
$post['post_content'] .= ' ';