Blog question
 

Hi,
How do is it possible to get content from RSS feeds, I keep hearing about it, but its baffling me...

I managed to Export a bunch of content from one blog and import it into another using the import and export tool in the cms im using. But is this the same thing?
It cant be because the imported content wont get updated will it!
Or am I comletely insane?

thanks

After you have the feeds from your sponsors , you need something to read them.The free ones : feedwordpress plugin ,WP-o-Matic and some paid ones: blog organizer , blog automater and others.
Here is a good thread for you: http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...ad.php?t=53422

I use Blogs Automater. You can try it for free on up to 3 blogs.
http://cheapestwebsoftware.com/

Hi thanks,
I installed both the wordpress plugins..I managed to get some sponsor material in my blog as categories with posts. But I only got a short exerpt then a link to an FHG.
Is there a way of getting 'better' content in the blog - more text, direct link to videos etc.
Or does that depend on who's suppying the feed. which sponsor etc?

Thanks

If you mean in an actual blog post, you need to go in and hack the theme to show the_content() instead of the_excerpt(). Unless the blog feed is of embedded videos. In that case I still havent figured out how to make them work rite, which is a shame because I want to import fuckyoucash's emberdded videos into a vlog.

Post a link you your site.

Cheers,
I could only find two reference to 'the_content' one in page.php. That was already set to the_content.
The other ref was to the_exerpt I found in post-template.php.
But changing it here gave me errors....So not sure..

Thanks

It could be that one of the feeds you are pulling is only an excerpt. Did you look at the source code of the feed itself to see if it had an image inside the posts?

http://BestOf.imlive.com/Live-Sex.rs...0&from=profile

I've been tinkering trying to pull content from different sponsors - I checked a couple of em, no image in the two I checked....

I tried Fuckyoucash's Flash feed, i cant get that to work either....but that might just be my set up is currently in a mess..

The first thing you want to do is validate the feed. I use Feed Validator.

If you run your ImLive feed through there you see that it is a valid feed but that it has some things that make it problematic for most feed readers.

You can spend days of trial and error searching for plug-ins and trying them and you may never have any satisfactory results.

I'll also load the feed in IE. That typically will show you exactly what you can expect most feed readers to show if they do read the feed.

Save yourself some time and countless hours of frustration and take Cleo's advice. Download the free version or Blogs Automater. It was written by a guy most of us know and trust and since he also works with adult it seems to work even with the stubbornest adult feeds.

While I can't promise that BA will work, I personally have never found an adult feed that it wouldn't parse.

If your using a free wordpress template a link to the template would make it so that someone could take a quick look at it and tell you pretty quickly if part of your problem might be the "the_excerpt" issue and show you how to fix it so it doesn't break the theme.

I took a look at the FU cash feed. It separates the text and video into two seperate areas. Content is under the description field and the embed information is under the content encoded tag.

In order to import the feed you would need a reader that would allow you to output both tag information.

I haven't played around with aggregator plug-ins in a long time but most of them will only read one tag or the other. Not both. So the best I think you could hope for either the text or the video but not both.

Since the only feed I would use on my sites is currently invalid, I will not be testing it through BA to see if it can put it all together.

What plug in are you using to grab the feed?

wp-o-matic grabs both the excerpt and the content.

You are not understanding what I'm saying. Physically look at the feed. Use the link I provided in my previous post for the feed validator and plug in one of the FU Cash feeds.

Scroll down the screen and you'll see something like this
For importing feeds the stuff inbetween isn't important. Find the tag and underneath it all all the tags that are available to be read by the feed reader.

You will see there is a tag and a tag.

With WP-o-Matic you do not have the ability to grab the information from the . tag.

I don't know of any plug-in aggregator that will read both. I'm not sure whether BA would be able to put the two parts together as per the RSS standard the description tag is supposed to be for the excerpt and the content:encode for post information.

Other than sponsors who seem to think they know of a better way, there is no need to read both and the complete post should be in content:encode.

But don't believe me... Keep scratching your head and wondering why you can't get the feed to work since you obviously believe you know more about RSS feeds and getting them into wordpress than anyone else.

Hi, interesting...I need as much information as I can regarding this, because it looks like it isnt a simple thing to get into....so many thanks Walrus.

I can see that one of the feeds did only come over with text and no images...although one feed did have both...

There was a setting I changed (cant remember which one now) that made images appear with exerpts where there was only copy before,... but the exerpts that already displayed copy with images then started to display two images next to each other as well as the copy, so I turned that function off. -

I guess choosing content wisely, and so it fits in with the rest of your blog is part of the game.

Walrus should I be checking feeds usining Feed Validator, to check whether the feed is compatible with the other feeds on my blog so I get 'symetery' in my layout and design, rather than some posts with images and other without...etc..?

The other thing is when ever I pull a feed into an aggregator, (I have used free ones and currently MS Outlook) I have always seen images and text together, but being a noob at this I'm not sure exactly what you mean there mate..

I still cannot find 'The_Exerpt'...The URL of the blog I am testing out is maturepornosex.co.uk

Seriously thanks for the help so far guys.. :)

ps.
The wordpress plugin I was using is FeedWordPress.

I can get it to work, I just havent gotten around to writing the code to shove it into a post so it will aggragate.. http://www.teenager-porn.com/18-only-vids

I have surprisingly few problems with getting feeds to work. I never said I know more than anyone, I just try to help people out with free software instead of just defaulting to telling them to buy the $200 version.

Maybe I'm seeing exerpts my wordpress installation is building and thinking they are coming from the feeds. However, I do know that I have both excerpts and content available for every feed I pull with wp-o-matic so its a moot point either way.

Nate, here's my problem. This is what you originally said.

But now you say your writing the code to read it.

You left the impression that an out of the box version of the plug-in would do something it won't.

Hacking up the plug-in to read any of the available tags in a feed shouldn't be too difficult to do for those that know a bit of php.

But that's not what you originally said while making it appear that what I had said was incorrect.

BTW, I agree WP-o-Matic is probably the best of the available plug-ins for aggregating feeds.

When I was using sponsor feeds on a regular basis, I always checked them with the feed validator.

I also, typically, loaded the feed in IE, just to see what I could expect to get from the feed.

FWP is pretty good although I've had problems in the past with it reposting the whole feed and not just the update with some feeds. Not all, just some of them. Which meant you ended up with 10 of each post instead of only one.

I also had problems with the plug-in getting updated when WP was upgraded.

BA is the best option. WP-o-Matic is also very good.

My wp-o-matic is untouched. I think I was just mistaken because the posts I's impurted with WPOM had both content and excerpts available (I only know this because I had to monkey around with a theme so it would shot the_content() instead of the_excerpt(). So I'll say Its my mistake.

The one that is hacked up to show both content and excerpt is just a parser that feeds a separate cache. It doesnt aggregate. Maybe one of these days I'll add some code to make it aggregate.

FeedWordPress Duplicate Post Filter
this is a filter for the FeedWordPress plugin. If you don't use FeedWordPress this plugin will not be useful to you.

I wrote this filter after seeing the same post in my database 32 times. Maybe you've had the same problem, and I hope this filter helps you solve it.

The filter works by hooking the "syndicated_post" action of FeedWordPress.

For each potential post, the filter compares the (escaped) post title, and either the post guid, or the year-month-day (e.g., 2008-04-12) of the post_date_gmt attributes. If it finds a match of both the title and either the guid or date, it tells FeedWordPress to skip that potential post. Otherwise, it tells FeedWordPress to continue processing it however you have syndication set up on your blog.

Hi I switched to Web-o-Matic if its better than FeedWordPress. I see you can set campaigns with WOM etc.

Do I have to hack this plugin then?

Also been looking but I still cant find the correct place to edit the_exerpts with the_content()

Thanks for the help an amusemnt so far guys..:)

I been looking everywhere for the_exerpt to change it too the_content, - I've looked on search engines for info about it, I looked in every file in the wp dir, I was led to beleive it was in wp-includes/post-template.php but I couldnt a mention anywhwere in the code where it was as simple as to just swap exerpt for content
My blog is definately showing exerpts through browser etc..

Thanks a lot..