WP-o-Matic 1.0RC3 beta shipping.

Great work Guillermo, going to test it out and report if any bugs

Thanks

Hi Guillermo

Thank you very much for your hard work. The plugin is brilliant! Will report bugs if I find any.

Thank you, Guillermo! For some reason, I still can’t get WP-o-Matic to use the dates from the feed (and not from when it picked up the feed items).

I removed the tables and reconfigured everything, and updated to the version above – any idea where to start troubleshooting this?

It’s a Twitter feed, if that helps at all.

Working perfectly with 2.5.1.

Can we create a user with the same name as in feed and assign all posts according to the author in feeds instead of assigning to a precreated author? This would be a very useful feature.

Hi Guillermo

Testing with WP 2.5.1. Have tried many different feeds and it seems that the “use dates from the feed” option is still not working.

Thank you

Additionally it’s got problems saving stuff. The title for example doesn’t get saved. Neither does the post template.

@ Mahlzeit
Can you provide more information useful for debugging (browser, wp version, etc)?

Great plugin. I have discovered a possible bug. I am running your previous plugin version on 2 blogs so far. I have not upgraded the live blogs with RC3 yet but have tested RC3 and it appears that comments are automatically being set as closed even though they are enabled. I am running WP 2.5.1, Firefox 2 Browser. Is it possible that this bug may only occur with certain themes? You can see the previous release in action here: http://djchaos.com

Thanks

** Update to Closed Comments Bug ** It appears turning the comments off and then on again in each campaign will re enable the comments but only for newly created posts. Hope that helps.

Thanks

Hi Guillermo,

I installed your plugin, but it was buggy, So I am trying to install the newest version you have and wonder how can I wipe ALL the previous data from the old version out? This way I can start off fresh!

Thanks

When fetching a feed on the live site the following error occured:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: str_ireplace() in wp-o-matic/wpomatic.php on line 729

Do you have any ideas what may be causing this? This is strange because on the test server this is not happening. RC3, Firefox 2, Apache Server, WP 2.5.1 Even after manually removing all wpomatic tables the error continues. Hope that helps.

@DJ Chaos
It seems your server doesn’t have the said function, for now search and replace the term ‘str_ireplace’ for ‘str_replace’ (notice the second doesn’t have the i)
For the next version it’ll be fixed for all setups.

@Chris
It’ll be done by WP-o-Matic automatically

When will this be out of beta? I’m not conformable using beta on my main site.

@Bryan
When people actually start providing helpful feedback to debug the errors in the betas.

sorry im a nooob…

how can i fix this error.. or where can i fix this..

Image cache path /home/admin11/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache is not writable!

appreciate some help..

tnx..

Setting up a Google Reader feed on Safari 3.1.1 running WordPress 2.5.1 I receive the following error upon submitting my campaign:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method: simplepie->set_item_limit() in /homepages/6/d191933718/htdocs/mindplacebo/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/wpomatic.php on line 791

Everything else works great so far.

For some reason it can’t pull in this rss feed?
http://www.gametrailers.com/rssgenerate.php?s1=&favplats%5Bxb360%5D=xb360&vidformat%5Bwmv%5D=on&type%5Breview%5D=on&type%5Bpreview%5D=on&type%5Binterview%5D=on&type%5Bgameplay%5D=on&type%5Btrailer%5D=on&embed=on&quality%5Beither%5D=on&agegate%5Byes%5D=on&agegate%5Bno%5D=on&orderby=newest&limit=20

Another feed that it appears to clock on.

http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/rss.xml

Thank you for plugin.
But I am unable to add a 2nd campaign for a different category.
1st campaign working fine.
2nd campaign can save, Name does not appar on dashboard (blank), cannot fetch
I do something wrong?

Using latest version pulling three blogspot feeds, all the posts show only “{content}”. Am I doing something wrong? Simplepie test etc. was fine.

1.0.3 on 2.5

It doesn’t save the Title of any of my campaigns (says I must enter a title, which I am, obviously!!!), and thus won’t save many of the options, too. (Like publishing…) :(

What am I missing? It fetches and saves just fine, though!

Posted before to wrong thread – sorry!

Alright, 1.0 RC3 on 2.5.0 out of the box. No errors on install. Cron and cache folder with perms set up.

It seems like changes to:
* Basic
* Options
* Tools
Don’t get saved.

It seems like changes to:
* Feeds
* Categories
* Rewrite
Do get saved.

When I put values for these into the DB, they do get retrieved and populated, though.

Is there another place to file bug reports?

“The following errors have been encountered:

* Options
o Max items should be a valid number (greater than zero)”

Er, it says that 0 = unlimited in the instructions :(

All bugs related to db saves have been fixed in RC3-6.
And those getting {content} instead of the post content should see that fixed.

I get

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /path to script/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/inc/admin/helper/import.helper.php on line 11

in Firefox on latest version of plugin ( the version word press updated to automatically today)

when I try to import an opml file

Received the folloeing error during instakk:

Warning: is_executable() [function.is-executable]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/usr/sbin/wget) is not within the allowed path(s): (/www/htdocs/w009775a/:/tmp:/usr/bin:/www/htdocs/w009775a:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/share/php) in /www/htdocs/w009775a/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/inc/tools.class.php on line 88

Any Idea?

Thx in advance!
Cheers Andre

WP-o-Matic 1.0RC3-6
Installed, using Firefox pressed “Add campaign”, got error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘;’ in /home/content/…/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/inc/admin/edit.php on line 341

Same error for me

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘;’ in html/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/inc/admin/edit.php on line 341

loaded with FF, running on MediaTemple servers

sorry, that is WP 2.5.1

Frequency is not working properly. For ex. frequency is 3 hours but in the dashboard it shows as 23 hours. Also i can’t change the frequency from options. After fetching the rss it still keeps the old settings.
Also clean logs is not working..

Ditto on:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘;’ in /home/x/public_html/karenm.us/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/inc/admin/edit.php on line 341

Which is weird, because there is no ‘;’ on that line…

I just got the following error with 1.0RC3-6

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘;’ in /home/…wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/inc/admin/edit.php on line 341

I got it on both wp-mu 1.5RC1 and WP 2.5.1.

Neither will fetch a feed when I click on fetch (imported the feed setting). It didn’t fetch a feed using the earlier beta either.

I use WordPress-mu on most sites. I only installed 2.5.1 in a subdirectory for testing purposes.

Same error on

wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/inc/admin/edit.php on line 341

P.S. – Mine occurred after add campaign. WP 2.5.1

@mina-san
Sorry for the stupid bug, it’s now fixed in 1.0RC3-7

Annnnd… a report on RC7 :) Aren’t I helpful? (laugh.) I keep commenting because I love the plugin, believe me!

Rewrite only seems to work on the content in the feed (item’s description in rss2), and not on anything else (such as title). This might be by design (feature-not-a-bug!), but for example Twitter’s feed is user: tweet-contentuser: tweet-content and so finging “user: ” and replacing with “” results in a post with an unaffected title, but corrected content. Perhaps and option: checkbox for “also replace in title” or “replace in all fields”?

Edit Campaign – if the frequency is over one week, you only see the remainder frequency
(ex: 8d = 1d, or 30d = 2d) (Freq does show up correctly on dashboard)

Edit Campaign – Tools, then any other tab (Basic Feeds Categories Rewrite Options)
‘Tools’ remains visible.

There was something else, but I can’t find/replicate it! I’ll be back :)

Thanks for the amazing plugin!!!

More, as promised :)

Perhaps there should be a way to ignore the “Frequency” and “Max items to create on each fetch” on the first fetch for a new feed or campaign? Changing these values twice may be non-obvious to new users…

UI thing: When Checking Feeds, the [] Delete? option oddly and suddenly migrates below a line break.

Settings – WPoMatic – Options – Unix Cron – More:
Help file not found. (additional suggestion: Sometimes “php” or “get http://etc” will work when cURL doesn’t; even if it’s otherwise functional. Depends on server/host setup.)

Also, props for the “o-matic” name. Contractions should be used to humorous ends more oft.

I just installed RC3-7 and nothing happens when I try to fetch a feed with either wp-mu 1.5rc1 or wp2.5.1 except “Campaign processed. 0 posts fetched” appears.

Hi . im using wp 2.3.3! and previous version of wp-o-matic!

for me this feed is now working!?!

http://feeds.gawker.com/lifehacker/full

*not

rc-7 broke my site :-(. After setting up a campaign, I went to edit a setting (before fetching posts — I’d forgotten to change a setting) and everything froze. Blog and admin panel was inaccessible.

Deleting wpomatic.php restored access, but when I put the file back and re-activated the plugin, same result — nothing loaded anymore.

RC3-7, PHP5, Linux, Apache, WP 2.5.1 – Web based cron jobs are running now however they do not fetch any posts. I still need to manually fetch posts with RC3-7. Hope that helps.

cron is running but does not fetch. webcron does not fetch either. fetch only works when i do it manually.

In fact even when I delete the whole wp-o-matic folder in my plugins directory and then re-installed the plugin, as soon as I hit “activate” in the plugins admin panel the blog stopped responding… again, as soon as I deteled wpomatic.php, the blog came back up.

This time I emptied the db tables before attempting to re-install rc3-7. I set up a new campaign, working through each tab in turn, and then hit submit — site when un-responsive. Deleting wpomatic.php restored access.

@Dan

What version of WP, PHP, Server, etc?

Hi Guillermo,

I seem to have the issue of dates for the cronjob fetch being wrong. Fetched a few now, and I still see a December 31st ‘latest processed’ date and next fetch in 2 yrs.

Not very savvy – so any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,
Trixxxia

WP 2.5.1 (of course ;-) ), PHP 4.4.7, Apache 1.3.37, MySQL 4.1.22

hi Guillermo, Do you have any idea why the betas won’t fetch a single RSS entry for me?

every time i add a campaign nothing pops up on my dashboard

Hi,
First of all thanks for this great tool.

Problem:
RSS / Atom feeds from Google News Alerts are not fetched at all. When setting up a campaign everything seems ok. No error messages. When force fetching no error message appears and the following message shows up: “Campaign processed. 0 posts fetched”.

Help welcome, thanks.

Mat seems to be experiencing the same bug.

Right, after a move to a new server (where Apache etc. runs as user) and a fresh install (dropping all tables etc. in between), rc3-7 is now working perfectly for me :-).

I’m running the latest version (WP-o-Matic 1.0RC3-7) on my MacBookPro, using MAMP PHP 5 and WP (2.6-bleeding – Revision 7924).

WoM will update the feeds perfectly when I Fetch manually, but cronjob does nothing. I already fixed the cron command to include an http reference to my development website (I’m using Apache and virtual servers on my Mac, so that http://dev.website.com leads to my local development copy).

Any ideas why I’m unable to automatically update the feeds?

Thanks… awesome plugin.

Is there any way to make the intervals between processing of campaigns shorter? I set the interval to 1 hour for each campaign but the dashboard estimates around 10 hours.

Again:

Trying to install wp-o-matic lastest release on a linux box… Reveived following error:

Warning: is_executable() [function.is-executable]: open_basedir
restriction in effect. File(/usr/sbin/wget) is not within the allowed
path(s):
(/www/htdocs/w009775a/:/tmp:/usr/bin:/www/htdocs/w009775a:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/share/php)
in
/www/htdocs/w009775a/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/inc/tools.class.php
on line 88

Hosting provider does not allow wget access… Prior versions of wp-o-matic worked… where can i get them again?

Thx.
Andre

I having the same issue as Carlos now–

Fetch works, but the cron job doesn’t fire processing.

Haven’t tracked it down yet, but I only took a quick look…

Hello.

I am running a site where only topics exist. The posting itself doesn´t exist (see my homepage). wp-o-matic now thinks, that the empty poting isn´t worth fetching, I have to force it manually to fetch the feed.
Can this be fixed? Thanks a lot.

I’m trying to run wp-o-matic via the cron daemon on my cpanel, using the following command:

/usr/bin/php /home/leticia/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cron.php?code=d3be2ea9

Instead of running, the program emails me, saying the following:

Status: 404 Not Found
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.5
Content-type: text/html

No input file specified.

Which “input file” do I need to add? Where? Please help, as I have no clue how to proceed.

Thanks mucho

Using WP-o-Matic 1.0RC3 with wpmu 1.5.1 with multi site manager.

It says Please click here to setup and configure WP-o-Matic on additional domains.

Any info on this or how to activate it and make it post to the domain that you want it to?

Thanks

Well, to cut a long story short: Yes. wp-o-matic could be a nice plugin. And so thanks and a big shout to Guillermo for his work. But it surely has a whole lot of bugs. And what’s a great problem for me, is the missing response and support to any kinds of questions here. (And btw: It does make it easier to follow to comments by having two posts open for commemts on the same topic.)

The plugin finally installs with warnings, but when fetching feeds the site is completly inresponsive. The only way to get the site back up and running is to delete or rename wpomatic.php.

And furthermore I believe the plugin is not usable in a shared hosting enviroment.

Thx,
Andre

(After never receiving any anwer or reaction up to now, I’m not really expecting an answer this time.)

I am running v pre1.5 and having better luck that RC3-7. RC3-7 will not automatically fetch any campaigns. That is a huge problem. pre1.5 will fetch duplicates if you don’t add a work around to some wp-includes code, even then it will still occasionally fetch dupes. I tried to hire Guillermo to finish the project but he’s not interested. Maybe if everyone contributed $5 bucks to him that might change his mind. Give it a shot.

Andre: I don’t think your problems with your host in regards to wget/cron/php are necessarily going to get solved by random responses on a thread all about a plugin that’s under development.

I’m not sure chastising the author of a sorely-needed and (perplexingly absent) plugin will help matters with your host. I’m on several different shared hosts, and this plugin essentially works.

Just like everyone else, the latest non-release version seems to not process automatically for me, but everything else works. Not sure what else you expect from something that’s under development. I hope additional people can come help develop something that *needs* to exist!

ElectroGeek: wait, this is no longer underactive Development?

I just assumed he was, you know, busy doing paid work or graduating or something.

@ Karen
Not sure where you’re going with that comment? I guess I shouldn’t have said that was a huge problem (fetching posts) with such an urgent tone. I’ve just been pointing out obvious bugs to help out. Hey that’s what Guillermo wants. I have the utmost respect for Guillermo. He’s a talented programmer. I know he’s got other things going on so we all have to be patient.

@ Karen
Ooops! I should have commented as ElectroGeek in my previous response instead of DJ CHAOS.

“Not sure where you’re going with that comment? I guess I shouldn’t have said that was a huge problem (fetching posts) with such an urgent tone. I’ve just been pointing out obvious bugs to help out. Hey that’s what Guillermo wants. I have the utmost respect for Guillermo. He’s a talented programmer. I know he’s got other things going on so we all have to be patient.”

You have a great tool and I appreciate the work. I am a developer and I realize how demanding these folks can get without ever donating a single penny for your work. I am only writing to provide feedback as you have asked for some beta testers. After install I ran into a nearly blank page that said I need to switch to Firefox. I use ie 7, is this browser not supported for the admin screens? Additionally, the older version has a strange issue where it does not properly format when I use the cron but does when I manually fetch. Has that been addressed with the new version. I would be happy to donate as soon as I can get a stable version that I can use in prod. Please continue your excellant work.

Regards

@ ElectroGeek/DjChaos

No, no! I was just alarmed that maybe development wasn’t continuing! I agree it’s a huge functionality issue! I’ve certainly posted a bunch of problems here :)

(“I tried to hire Guillermo to finish the project but he’s not interested. Maybe if everyone contributed $5 bucks to him that might change his mind. Give it a shot.”)

Looking at the other thread, it seems like everything is ok, I just was alarmed by what you said above! :)

@karen

see my comment here:
http://devthought.com/wp-o-matic-the-wordpress-rss-agreggator/comment-page-75/#comment-5113

I’m not expecting anything, but a little more response. I know that the plugin is still under development and open source and for free. And of course Guillermo is doing great work, which isn’t easy, and he is doing it in his spare time, and maybe his girlfriend isn’t happy about that… :) So, respect to Guillermo and a big shout!

But for the next one, who want to reply on my comment, I swear: I know that the plugin in still under undervelopment. And it’s open source. And free… And so on… and so on… And do you know what? This isn’t the first & not the only plugin which is under development and open source for me.

(Don’t know why people always think they have to react quite schematically? Don’t you think, that open source development demands some criticism – in a constructive way of course…)

“development demands some criticism”

Sure.

Just not about people here not fixing your hosting situation.

@karen

My “hosting situation” is not uncommon in an shared hosting enviroment. And I never complained that.

Sorry. Somebody else using your name did.

To them: Luckily, it explains how to use webcron in case your host does not allow curl or wget or php or similar methods. Which means it is perfectly usable in shared environments, despite statements to the contrary.

Also, many hosts will add a cron if you ask, they just don’t want people backing up or restoring entire sites every 30 seconds.

Are there any new updates to test? The last version 3-7, didn’t make any posts.

Are you planing to ad Google translate to the filter ?

a filter that can translate to almost any language will be very powerful (SE love uniq content)

/e

I’m having a problem with cron i believe, its not pulling posts unless i goto the site and hit fetch.

# May 29, 5:15:38 am – Running cron job
# May 28, 5:15:52 am – Running cron job
# May 27, 5:07:26 am – Running cron job

cron does not work

Please report bugs here from now on:
http://wpomatic.lighthouseapp.com/