Lately it seems the API is up and down all the time, many times providing invalid data, and recently moved to a new URI. The one plugin that solves this same task hasn’t been updated in months, and it’s not ready for an inconsistent API, which results in a N/A count all the time.

FeedBurnerCount can maintain your feed count even if the Awareness API is not working (or you can specify a custom message for those situations), and calculate the average readers count in a period of time. It also sniffs your feedburner details (if the FeedBurner plugin installed) for an impossibly easier setup.

Head to the the plugin page for more details.

Not only the new version fixes dozens of bugs, it also ships with impressive new features that will blow your mind (and your blog readers) away.

Some of them are:

• Plugins support. You’ll be able to install them with only one click.
• Cross-platform. Guaranteed to work flawlessly on every hosting and setup scenario.
• Ajax campaign processing. Process your campaign with a neat progress bar, right from the admin panel, asynchronously.
• … and 27 more!.

The website

WP-o-Matic will be hosted at its own website, where a new community will be born. Some of the toys it comes with:

• Community forums
• Wiki
• Plugins repository

And a few more surprises

WP-o-Matic 1.5 is the result of lots of hard work, feedback analysis and testing. I look forward to hearing your comments and expectations. Stay tuned for the grand opening.

• Tables not deleted anymore upon installation
• Fixed SimplePie error report.
• Fixed small post content bug (not hidden by default)
• Fixed cron url
• Removed inverted quotes from queries
• Fixed notices in debug mode
• No error showing for campaigns w/o feeds fixed

Click here to download

As usual, head to Lighthouse for bug reports

Remember that, just like any release prior to 1.0, upgrading will erase your previous campaigns, feeds, logs, etc.

• Now compatible with WordPress 2.5
• Categories shown with indentation (parent > children now separated)
• SimplePie updated to 1.1.1, and SimplePie Core now supported.
• Fixed broken cron command
• Fixed broken export on some systems
• Fixed broken redirect when resetting a campaign
• Everything now stored in GMT to avoid time issues. Gotten rid of NOW() functions in favor of WP time functions
• Fixed bug with validation upon deletion of feeds in existing campaigns
• Fixed bug with ‘allow comments’ setting.
• Fixed bug with logs dates
• Fixed bug with double quote escaping (fixes campaign templates / rewrite html bugs)
• Username in options tab changed to a more handy select box.
• Interface now looks better on IE (d’oh)
• Added many help files
• Fixed annoying duplicates bug
• Fixed small bug in import with labels

I need feedback on:

• All sorts of errors, warnings, notices, blank screens
• Styling problems, indicating Browser, OS, URL and a screenshot.
• Behavioral problems: bad dates, bad content, duplicates, etc
• Performance problems
• Unexpected behavior

Always include instructions on how to reproduce the issues please!

Go ahead and download it

Updates

• 1 – Fixed bugs with categories in edit mode and posts tools (thanks Mike)
• 2 – Fixed empty rewrite bug (thanks Mike) and replacements now case insensitive
• 3 – Fixed bugs with ‘use feed date’ option, footer copyright, bad dates in ‘view all’ logs, log message field made text, timestamps converted to datetime, ‘Clean logs’ function fixed (big changes, please test)
• 4 – Fixed bugs with older WP releases (now WP-o-Matic works with any version starting from 2.2). Now rewrite works with PHP4.
• 5 – str_ireplace bug fixed, allow comments bug fixed, now user can choose comments state.
• 6 – {content} not getting rewritten fixed, titles and other settings not being stored fixed.

Just writing to let you know that the upcoming release candidate of WP-o-Matic is being cooked and betatested!

This is a list of all the exciting changes, which include new features you’ve been requesting and lots of bugfixes

• Categories shown with indentation (parent > children now separated)
• Fixed broken cron command
• SimplePie updated to 1.1
• Fixed broken export on some systems
• Fixed broken redirect when resetting a campaign
• Everything now stored in GMT to avoid time issues. Gotten rid of NOW() functions in favor of WP time functions
• Fixed bug with validation upon deletion of feeds in existing campaigns
• Fixed bug with ‘allow comments’ setting.
• Fixed bug with logs dates
• Fixed bug with double quote escaping (fixes campaign templates / rewrite html bugs)
• Username in options tab changed to a more handy select box.
• Interface now looks better on IE (d’oh)
• New option added to select max number of items to process
• New option added to decide whether the permalink should point to the created blog post or to the source permalink
• New general option to get logs feedback while the campaign is being processed.

As usual, stay tuned. Sorry for not being able to respond and release with more frequency, but I’ve been really busy.

This stable branch will not see feature updates in quite a while, only bugfixes, in an attempt to provide a solid and reliable feed aggregating plugin for WordPress once and for all.

You can contribute! Suggest new features or changes for the upcoming WP-o-Matic 1.1 by posting your comments here. You can stay up-to-date with all the news regarding WP-o-Matic through your favorite RSS reader.

Update: Here is a pre-release version for you to try.

It’s fully 2.3 and 2.4 compatible, and includes the new setup screen to assist users in installing WP-o-Matic successfully. Click here to download

Update 2: Newest version here. WP-o-Matic is slowly reaching perfection

Update 3: You can find WP-o-Matic RC2 in the main post now.

Please refer to the plugin main page for download and installation instructions

Changelog summary

• Added a dashboard with quick stats and log display.
• Added campaign support to centralize options for multiple feeds.
• Added import/export support through OPML files
• Added image caching capabilities.
• Added word/phrase rewriting and relinking capabilities.
• Added nonce support
• Added i18n support with translation domain ‘wpomatic’
• Added help throughout the system.
• SimplePie updated to 1.0.1 (Razzleberry), relocated and server compatibility tests included.
• Improved Unix detection for cron.
• Removed MooTools dependency for optimization reasons.
• Redesigned admin panel, now divided into sections.
• Logging now database-based.

Some really cool stuff

Post templates

Feed autodiscovery and ajax checks

And so much more you’ll pee your pants…

Download

In plugin’s main page

Donate

Updated: the reported bugs with PHP4 and WP-o-Matic have been corrected.

Here are some screenshots of what will be the next stable version of this useful plugin. As I promised, it comes packed with all the features of competitors’ similar products, and even more.

Please don’t hesitate to send in your comments, and don’t forget to…

Apparently, some part of WP-o-Matic was still working with MagpieRSS instead of the new Simplepie, which resulted in some PHP warnings.

Please refer to WP-o-Matic main post to download the new version. No new features, only small bugfixes so far.