It's a great idea, but I am having problems. Maybe because I don't have much WP experience. That's in updating. Anyway, before trying again, does anybody use it? Does it work nicely?
Depends what you're trying to do with it. It's pretty simple to use, and the results are pretty 'simple' too.
geniosity: It's a plugin that converts feeds into posts. SEBasic: Hello my Souf Eyst Lundun friend! My idea was to have a few separate blogs with various authors and consolidate them into a communal one. Does that make sense? It would do nicely for my plans, but I am having trouble with updating, when the main one should import the feeds. I haven't even gone far enough to set up a cron job as I can't get the update to work browsing update-feeds.php. I suppose you are using FWP so it should work. Any ideas at all? Thank you mate! (Do you like football? Who's your favourite?)
Not a huge football fan, but I did get to see Reading play the other day ~ It was pretty awesome... (Although by rights I 'should' be a Millwall fan) Yeah I've used FWP a number of times and it should do exactly what you're asking for off the bat... Have you added a password to the fwp update config? If so, are you including it as a URL variable when you request the update?
Thanks very much guys! It's nice to know that there's always someone that can and will help you at all times here at DP! I'll try again and see if I missed something silly (silly for me) and get back! Thanks again!
Yeah, I get to the page and the update appears to take place but then I get some errors. This is what I get with a random rss feed: Updating Tuscany Vacation Stories from <http://tuscanyvacationstories.kissblogs.com/blog/index.xml> ... WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'user_firstname' in 'where clause'] SELECT ID from wp_users WHERE TRIM(LCASE(user_login)) = TRIM(LCASE('Tuscany Vacation Stories')) OR TRIM(LCASE(user_firstname)) = TRIM(LCASE('Tuscany Vacation Stories')) OR TRIM(LCASE(user_nickname)) = TRIM(LCASE('Tuscany Vacation Stories')) OR TRIM(LCASE(user_nicename)) = TRIM(LCASE('tuscany-vacation-stories')) OR TRIM(LCASE(user_description)) = TRIM(LCASE('Tuscany Vacation Stories')) OR ( LOWER(user_description) RLIKE CONCAT( '(^|\n)a.k.a.( |\t)*:?( |\t)*', LCASE('Tuscany Vacation Stories'), '( |\t|\r)*(\n|$)' ) ) WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'user_firstname' in 'field list'] INSERT INTO wp_users SET ID='0', user_login='Tuscany Vacation Stories', user_firstname='Tuscany Vacation Stories', user_nickname='Tuscany Vacation Stories', user_nicename='tuscany-vacation-stories', user_description='Tuscany Vacation Stories', user_email='', user_url='http://tuscanyvacationstories.kissblogs.com/blog' WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'user_firstname' in 'where clause'] SELECT ID from wp_users WHERE TRIM(LCASE(user_login)) = TRIM(LCASE('Tuscany Vacation Stories')) OR TRIM(LCASE(user_firstname)) = TRIM(LCASE('Tuscany Vacation Stories')) OR TRIM(LCASE(user_nickname)) = TRIM(LCASE('Tuscany Vacation Stories')) OR TRIM(LCASE(user_nicename)) = TRIM(LCASE('tuscany-vacation-stories')) OR TRIM(LCASE(user_description)) = TRIM(LCASE('Tuscany Vacation Stories')) OR ( LOWER(user_description) RLIKE CONCAT( '(^|\n)a.k.a.( |\t)*:?( |\t)*', LCASE('Tuscany Vacation Stories'), '( |\t|\r)*(\n|$)' ) ) WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'user_firstname' in 'field list'] INSERT INTO wp_users SET ID='0', user_login='Tuscany Vacation Stories', user_firstname='Tuscany Vacation Stories', user_nickname='Tuscany Vacation Stories', user_nicename='tuscany-vacation-stories', user_description='Tuscany Vacation Stories', user_email='', user_url='http://tuscanyvacationstories.kissblogs.com/blog' WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'user_firstname' in 'where clause'] SELECT ID from wp_users WHERE TRIM(LCASE(user_login)) = TRIM(LCASE('Tuscany Vacation Stories')) OR TRIM(LCASE(user_firstname)) = TRIM(LCASE('Tuscany Vacation Stories')) OR TRIM(LCASE(user_nickname)) = TRIM(LCASE('Tuscany Vacation Stories')) OR TRIM(LCASE(user_nicename)) = TRIM(LCASE('tuscany-vacation-stories')) OR TRIM(LCASE(user_description)) = TRIM(LCASE('Tuscany Vacation Stories')) OR ( LOWER(user_description) RLIKE CONCAT( '(^|\n)a.k.a.( |\t)*:?( |\t)*', LCASE('Tuscany Vacation Stories'), '( |\t|\r)*(\n|$)' ) ) WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'user_firstname' in 'field list'] INSERT INTO wp_users SET ID='0', user_login='Tuscany Vacation Stories', user_firstname='Tuscany Vacation Stories', user_nickname='Tuscany Vacation Stories', user_nicename='tuscany-vacation-stories', user_description='Tuscany Vacation Stories', user_email='', user_url='http://tuscanyvacationstories.kissblogs.com/blog' Update complete. 0 new posts were syndicated and 0 existing posts were updated Any easy explanation? Thank you!
What version of wordpress do you use? Feedwordpress won't work with version 2.0 I had to install older version of wordpress to get it to work.
Ah! That's why then. I'll have to reinstall it then. I'm disappointed but happy I got your help! Thanks again bschneider5! See you around!
I have fwp working on a 2.0 blog. Check this page for information: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/56808 Once I made the change that "beer" noted, it's working quite well.
I just installed the feedwordpress plugin yesterday and I was wondering if you'd be kind enough to help me with the following: - How would you limit the number of characters for each posting to let's say 300 characters? There are some feeds that are displaying the entire article in my blog. I just want a short summary. - What's the exact command that I need to use to run an hourly cron job? - How do you make sure that once a posting is deleted; it does not re-appear in the next update? - How would you customize the title to display the name of the source? For example: Brad's Blog - New Web Directory I'm sorry to flood you with all these questions, it's just that I see a lot of potential for this tool and I'm hoping that you or anyone else in this forum can help me out. Thanks in advance!
i'm getting Update complete. 0 new posts were syndicated and 0 existing posts were updated i'm running wordpress 2.2 can anyone help? thanks in advance