Full Auto - Rock N Roll

[nate]

This is a little experiment blog set up to pull from like 20 feeds daily, get tags automatically via some yahoo plugin and rotate posts from old to new every hour. Its pretty leak-free with rel="nofollow" everywhere except actual internal links. Even the "static" pages update daily.

Its a lot of wp-o-matic, feedcache and scary rss parser with some other plugins fro the tags and nofollow stuff.

I've come to realize I like building blogs a lot more than I like blogging.

http://www.teen-x-blog.com/

[Madhouse]

Looks great.

any chance you would list the plug-ins..I'm trying to set up a blog of my own, and since im fairly new to this i can use all the help i can get.

M

[nate]

Auto Tags - Tag posts on save an update from tagthe.net and yahoo services.
Datafeedr Random Ads Plugin - The Datafeedr Random Ads plugin is a free plugin which allows you to simply and easily show random ads anywhere in your template files or using widgets.
Exec-PHP - Executes <?php ?> code in your posts, pages and text widgets.
FeedCache - Caches RSS Feeds for display on WP site sidebar. This prevents multiple HTTP requests with each page load since the feeds can be read from the cache file.
Google XML Sitemaps - This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO
Nofollow Links - Select which links in your blogroll you want to nofollow.
Old Post Promoter (by BTE) - Randomly choose an old post and reset the publication date to now. The effect is to promote older posts by moving them back onto the front page and into the rss feed. This plugin should only be used with data agnostic permalinks (permalink structures not containing dates). "You down with OPP? Yeah you know me!"
Redirection - Manage all your 301 redirects and monitor 404 errors
SEO Tag Cloud Widget - SEO Tag Cloud Widget displays the tag cloud in a SEO-friendly way, using a search engine optimized html markup.
WP-NofollowPost - Simply adds a nofollow tag to all links within a post.
WP-o-Matic - Enables administrators to create posts automatically from RSS/Atom feeds.
WP Security Scan - Perform security scan of WordPress installation.
WP Tag Manager - An advanced tag manager that seamlessly integrates into WordPress.

[Mr Spock]

Some usefull tags there Nate , I use Simple Tags which also has an auto tag feature and some other cool stuff.

[Madhouse]

Thanks a million..

[nate]

One more is ScarySoftware RSS parser. It is not a wp plugin, but you can call it in a text widget. The beauty of it is that you can have lots of them to make each feed you pull with them look different. Its also just a single php file and pretty easy to mess with the php to make it do things other feed agrigators wont do. It caches to plain html in a file named as the base64 version of the feed URL.

Downsides, you have to dick with the php to make it work. For instance, out of the box, if it decides to use the cached version, it outputs the cached version then exit()s. That means no more of your page gets written. I take out the exit() and do else { instead. Also if you want to use the different versions of the file for different feeds on a page, it breaks if all the functions and variables have the same name. I just batch replace $ with $nameoffeed_ in the files to solve that problem, but that isnt optimal I dont think and its a hack. CD34 AKA Sparky could probably tell us how to do it right if he reads this.

[Madhouse]

thanks man, I'm going to have a look at that one too.

i tried having feedcache pull some gallery feeds, but got stuck with where to put the feedcash code.. couldnt find the sidebar.php in the atahualpa theme.. .. as is pointed out, im a a noob with these blogs.

[nate]

Originally Posted by Madhouse

thanks man, I'm going to have a look at that one too.

i tried having feedcache pull some gallery feeds, but got stuck with where to put the feedcash code.. couldnt find the sidebar.php in the atahualpa theme.. .. as is pointed out, im a a noob with these blogs.

You have to install php-exec (which is a wp plugin), then inside a text box put

<?php echo feedcache_display_feeds(); ?>

[Mr Spock]

how is feedcache different from feedpress or wp-o-matic?

[Madhouse]

Originally Posted by nate

You have to install php-exec (which is a wp plugin), then inside a text box put

<?php echo feedcache_display_feeds(); ?>

Yeah. i figured it out in the end.. thanks..

only thing is, my host cant figure out how to get the ruby thingy working. :/

[Madhouse]

Originally Posted by Mr Spock

how is feedcache different from feedpress or wp-o-matic?

You can include the feed anywhere on your site., not sure any of those other 2 can do that..

[nate]

Originally Posted by Mr Spock

how is feedcache different from feedpress or wp-o-matic?

Feedcache "caches" the text of feeds for use in sidebars (or anywhere else. WP-O-Matic takes a feed and puts it's posts into your blog as posts.

only thing is, my host cant figure out how to get the ruby thingy working. :/

I had that problem too. You have to install the "gems" like the directions say, but what the directions leave out is that you have to have the MySQL module for Ruby.

[Dmitriy123]

very very very well , thanks for share :">

[nate]

Another one goes on autopilot http://fetish.fuckedhub.com/

[walrus]

There really is a much simpler, more reliable way to build automated blogs. Of course it does require a little cash investment but I believe they still have a free trial so you could setup 3 blogs with no cash investment.

I'd recommend Blog Automater. It's the most reliable adult feed reader available. I never seen a feed it can't read. But it's much more. (shit I sound like I'm making a sales pitch.)

It works with WP or you can use it's built in template system. Basically, it becomes a central database for posts and you can control where they go by feed, keyword, or other means.

I haven't seen T-Pat posting lately but if you happen to run across him, he can probably tell you all the advantages to BA as he used to run a very large automated blog network. He can also tell you how successful the venture has been.

But, I'll be honest with you automated blogs don't work. At least not for me. At no point was the time spent worth the time invested.

I wish you luck but my personal experience with these is that your time would be much more productive building freesites.

[nate]

Looks pretty cool Walrus, but it requires zend optimizer which I cinsider the microsoft of php and I wont put it on my server. Thats also why I dont have a tube script.

I don't mind building the blogs, and they are pretty much automatic after that. I still have some hand-written blogs, and I still do free-sites and galleries. That's what 18 hour days are for.

Another project I have an idea for is setting up hardlinks for most of the plugins so I only have to update one instead of 20+.

[walrus]

Originally Posted by nate

Looks pretty cool Walrus, but it requires zend optimizer which I cinsider the microsoft of php and I wont put it on my server. Thats also why I dont have a tube script.

I don't mind building the blogs, and they are pretty much automatic after that. I still have some hand-written blogs, and I still do free-sites and galleries. That's what 18 hour days are for.

Another project I have an idea for is setting up hardlinks for most of the plugins so I only have to update one instead of 20+.

I'm not knocking it. Blogs are work intensive and any way someone can find something that works with little to no maintenance is worth trying.

Checking one of the very few of these type of blogs I still have...to date (yes in the last 6 months), I've had a total of 1K in uniques and have not made a single sale in a little over two years. Only reason it's still up is it was one of the few sites that didn't get hammered when I had my massive database issues a year or so ago and it would be too much work to check for active link trades and notify people I was dumping them.

Hopefully, you'll have more positive results.

[T Pat]

Originally Posted by walrus

I haven't seen T-Pat posting lately but if you happen to run across him, he can probably tell you all the advantages to BA as he used to run a very large automated blog network. He can also tell you how successful the venture has been.

But, I'll be honest with you automated blogs don't work. At least not for me. At no point was the time spent worth the time invested.

I wish you luck but my personal experience with these is that your time would be much more productive building freesites.

Fuck Walrus
I came here looking for plugins and you pulled me out of hibernation
(actually just been MIA because my back is toast and I've been concentrating on a project with Tekster)
Blogs Automater rocks, I have 200+ keyword (shit, piss,fuck,cunt,cocksuker etc.) butt ugly subdomain splogs. Looking back on it, they were easy to setup Kaktus lays everything out intuitively ( not like some of these wordpress plugins I've been fucking with). It used to take me a couple hours a day to approve sponsor hosted feed posts. The number of new feed posts by sponsors is getting real skinny, now it takes me 15 to 45 minutes a day to go through them.

Splogs were decent money up until about July of last year, now they are not worth the effort

[LD]

I had three blogs going with BA a while back, completely automatic. Decent looking blogs/splogs, and the functionality was great...I could go weeks and never look at them. It was fun, but no money, and Google didn't like them. My latest handwritten panty blog is doing much better.

[HowlingWulf]

With RSS feeds you're competing against all the other webmasters using those feeds against the Google duplicate content penalty. Plus you can't target your key phrases effectively. Morphed feeds may help with the first, but not the second.

[walrus]

Originally Posted by T Pat

Fuck Walrus
I came here looking for plugins and you pulled me out of hibernation
(actually just been MIA because my back is toast and I've been concentrating on a project with Tekster)

What, hair on the back of your neck stand up...

Good to see you around old friend.

Originally Posted by HowlingWulf

With RSS feeds you're competing against all the other webmasters using those feeds against the Google duplicate content penalty. Plus you can't target your key phrases effectively. Morphed feeds may help with the first, but not the second.

The problem with morphing feeds is they defeat the purpose of the blog. The posts become unintelligent and discourage your reader instead of encouraging him. Like reading something that's been run through babelfish

[Simon]

Originally Posted by walrus

The problem with morphing feeds is they defeat the purpose of the blog. The posts become unintelligent and discourage your reader instead of encouraging him. Like reading something that's been run through babelfish

I detest morphing feeds and if a sponsor only offers morphing versions of their feeds I will not use them.

As Walrus said (morphed):

"The quandary with the transmute of fodder is they covers the aim of blog. The mails become stupidly and disincline your bibliophile in lieu of emboldening him. As apprehending a thing that's by dint of ruckus aquatic vertebrate."

Oh yeah, give me more morphed feeds, please!