1 | Vladimir Cvetic » Wordpress Plugin: ContentGen+ on Blog

April 24th, 2007 at 2:14 pm

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2 | flybit

April 24th, 2007 at 10:04 pm

Hi Vladimir thank’s for this plugin :)

I have problems with particular character visualization in the blog’s post.
Have U idea about solving this bug?

Thank’s

3 | Vladimir Cvetic

April 24th, 2007 at 11:21 pm

First of all I am glad you liked it :)

Can you please give more details about the problem you are experiencing, thanks.

4 | flybit

April 26th, 2007 at 6:14 pm

I wrong encoding, there is not problem in your plugin, it works perfectly!

I have another questions now, like a similar plugin and with the support of Get Custom Field Values is possible to get the source link?

Best Regards

5 | zeroedge

April 28th, 2007 at 9:20 pm

I installed plugin and added feeds , but no posts???? am i missing something? did i nto do sometihing I was suppose to do??? Please let me know.

Edit:
forgot blog isi at http://www.zeroedgeaquarium.com/zeroblog. feeds for this plugin are categories reefs.org and manhattan reefs

6 | leksa

April 29th, 2007 at 2:43 am

Nice Plugin..Really nice..

Waiting for the further release..
Is more great if it can read full rss.

I’ll try to modify it too :)

Thanks again

7 | Great

May 2nd, 2007 at 4:26 am

Sounds like an excellent way to start up a splog! Nice going.

8 | au8ust

May 2nd, 2007 at 9:21 pm

Great plugin! I hope to see next release soon ;)

Anyway, the plugin seems to report a wrong number of version. It should be 0.9b instead of 0.1

9 | Kane

May 3rd, 2007 at 11:37 am

Nice gesture to all sploggers out there. You must be proud of yourself. Ignorance is bliss.

10 | Vladimir Cvetic

May 3rd, 2007 at 1:08 pm

@au8ust
Yea you are right :) i forgot to update version number in description

@zeroedge
I see posts are showing up now, you probably figured it out :)
Automatic cron will trigger every 1 hour but when someone visits your blog. For example cron is scheduled to run in 15:00, it will be triggered by the first visit after 15:00.
So if you install plugin now you should expect first posts to show up 1h later upon first visit.
If you like you can trigger it by hand. Simply visit http://yourblog.com/wp-content/plugins/gc/cron.php

thanks for comments all!

11 | chris

May 15th, 2007 at 6:11 pm

nice plugin :)

I’ve put this comment earlier, but I think it was a problem or something.

I love it, but I would like to know if it’s possible to have the original link’s URL on my post

something like this:

“you cand find original article [here]” and on [here] to be a link to the original article :)

12 | dalejr

May 18th, 2007 at 3:45 pm

This looks like a great program, but I have installed it, added lots of feeds to it, and nothing seems to happen. I don’t have access to cron, so I installed the plug-in wp-cron and turned it on. should it trigger regardless, or am i missing something here.. thanks

13 | Vladimir Cvetic

May 18th, 2007 at 3:59 pm

Please read my reply to one of comments before or read cron instructions in admin panel. :)

14 | dalejr

May 18th, 2007 at 7:07 pm

yes, have done so and still is not working

“So if you install plugin now you should expect first posts to show up 1h later upon first visit.
If you like you can trigger it by hand. Simply visit http”

visit what?

15 | chris

May 18th, 2007 at 9:43 pm

dalejr

http:// yourblog.com/wp-content/plugins/gc/cron.php

without the space placed after “http://”

Vladimir - can I do what I asked 2 comments before this one?

16 | Alex

May 25th, 2007 at 12:25 pm

Nice plugin Vladimir.

I have two questions:

1) Is it possible to have source link to every news (see post of chris).
2) Is it possibile to change number of line (or words) that appears in every news (see post of leksa),

Thanks.

Good work Vladimir.

17 | Vladimir Cvetic

May 25th, 2007 at 12:37 pm

1) Not in this version, will include it in next one… check back in few days
2) ^^

Thanks for compliments.

18 | Alex

May 25th, 2007 at 12:40 pm

Question 2 is not clear, sorry.
I don’t speak english very wel.

19 | Vladimir Cvetic

May 25th, 2007 at 12:41 pm

^^ means “same as above” :)

20 | Alex

May 25th, 2007 at 12:44 pm

Ops, sorry :P

Thanks Vladimir.

21 | Vladimir Cvetic

May 25th, 2007 at 2:00 pm

new version is out, source links will be included in post text, read more in update section

22 | Alex

May 25th, 2007 at 2:04 pm

Great Vladimir.
I have downloaded and now i’m testing new versione.
Thanks :D

23 | Alex

May 25th, 2007 at 2:15 pm

Ok, now there is “Source: [Link]” at the end of every post.
But i can’t change number of lines (or words) that appear in every news, it’s very important for me.
I think that will include in next version.
Thanks a lot Vladimir :))

24 | Vladimir Cvetic

May 25th, 2007 at 2:19 pm

It is possible to include that feature but, since every RSS Feed has limited text in description you can only expect to have option to lower number of words.

Feature with source link took me very little amount of time to do, thats why I did it now. This one I will do in next few days when i get some more time.

25 | robert

May 29th, 2007 at 2:50 am

I installed and love your plugin one questions I have though is there anyway to make the post pingable by default?

26 | Vladimir Cvetic

May 29th, 2007 at 4:23 pm

At this moment, no but it is a good idea. Will consider it for one of next releases.

27 | Gary

June 3rd, 2007 at 1:58 am

Hi Vladimir,

Is it possible to have any links within the feed edited so that any external link has the taregt added to be “_blank” so that a new window opens rather than opening in the current window?

Great plugin.

Gary

28 | Vladimir Cvetic

June 3rd, 2007 at 12:37 pm

Ok all :)

Since I am reciving bunch of email-s every day with feature requests, wishes etc to support all of those features and to give quality service I have decided to build commercial version of the plugin, development has already started.

It will have all the features free version has but it will be much more customizable and it will have several other features free version doesn’t have. Some of those features will be Related Posts, AdSense in post, AdSense click tracking and lots more. It will be full scale scraping bundle which will be installable with 2 clicks and you will no longer be required to configure it every time but simply copy old configuration over and over.

I know commercial version announcement is not very popular but I will try and make it very cheap, price I currently have in my mind is 15-25US. I think that is very very cheap.

Don’t hate me, I simply don’t have that much time for free projects with 60 E-Mail’s/day about it.

29 | Gary O

June 4th, 2007 at 9:47 am

Vladimir,

If it is to be commercialised, it would also need to have more options.

As I have requested - open links in new window.

Another would be whether to include the source link or not, for example, I take Google News feeds which already include the link to the source article. I don’t particularly want the additional feed link.

I’ve also come across a feed which when I use the plugin doesn’t generate correct links which are a pain to manually edit.

Regards

Gary O

PS - I believe you should still make a free plugin with perhaps not as many features as those of a commercial release.

30 | Alex

June 4th, 2007 at 1:58 pm

Bad idea!

There are a lot of plugins that made same of your plugin (wp-o-matic, feedwordpress, wp-autoblog, ecc ecc).

Good lucky.

Bye.

31 | Nifty

June 14th, 2007 at 11:01 pm

2Alex:
wp-o-matic - 0.2beta also does not work adequately, feedwordpress - does not do necessary functions, a wp-autoblog - OK, smartrss - it’s good with small completions, sapid - it’s for fans(imho).
ContentGen+ it is a free plug-in and should develop.

32 | Scripter

June 20th, 2007 at 8:12 am

I know you dont provide support for it but can you atleast let me know what version of WP you have gotten it to work in with no added headache I just tried it on
2.0.6
and on
2.1

on 2.0.6 when i ctivate it it just goes to blank sceen on me and on 2.1 it looks like it going to work then i go to “New Feed Sources” tab and I get a bunch of php text

prefix . “gcdb”; $sql = “DELETE from $table_name WHERE id = “.$_POST['id']; $wpdb->query($sql); die(’deleted!’); } $feedhelp = ‘To set Feed URL please type in the full url to feed you wish to include.’; $categoryhelp = ‘This is the category in which this feed\’s contents will be insterted to.’; $titletaghelp = ‘Disabled.
Please ignore this field, new feature will be included in next releases.’; $storytaghelp = ‘Disabled.
Please ignore this field, new feature will be included in next releases.’; if (!empty($_POST )) : gc_feeds_insert($_POST); ?>

so if you could tell me the version of wp this works with it would be greatly appreciated

33 | elaz

June 21st, 2007 at 3:25 pm

Great plugin, but

Hi may be I’m wrong but when I fetch content from a atom feed I only recieve the head-line and a source-link. Is it possible to display the content-text which is displayed in the atom feed ?

34 | othonas

June 22nd, 2007 at 2:27 am

First of all congratulations for this excellent plugin. There are two questions:
Is it possible to open the source link in a new window/tab ?

Second question : The cron function is not working. Is it possible to give me the exact code to place it in cronmonkey ?
Thnaks for any response

35 | Vladimir Cvetic

July 13th, 2007 at 2:08 pm

@othonas

Cron function is implemented in Wordpress not the plugin, please read my previous comments on the subject.

It is not possible to do that at this moment, tho I do agree with you that it should be possible.

36 | Flybit

July 31st, 2007 at 11:51 am

Hi Vladimir,
I have a problem with the insert of news articles from rss source.
My rss source updates his feed with a non sequential order, the news articles has a random order in the feed. Do you think this feeds updates, can be a problem for your script? Have you any solutions?

Best Regards

37 | Andrew

August 7th, 2007 at 11:00 pm

Sounds great but it isn’t working… I uploaded/activated ContentGen+ but the link in WordPress for “Content Generator,” to the right of options, does not work. I get a 404, “Page not found” error from Host Gator. I’m running the latest version of WordPress.

Any ideas on how to make it work?

Thanks,
Andrew

38 | Jozef

August 16th, 2007 at 9:06 am

Poz :)
Ima li nesto novo ?:)

39 | Epro

August 17th, 2007 at 10:23 pm

Vladimir,

You plugin sounds really nice. Thank you for a wonder ful tool.

I have set it up on my site and run a manual cron job to wp-content/cg/cron.php file hourly but I don’t see any post being created from the feeds that I setup under CG.

The email result from my cron job states the following:
/bin/sh: line 1:
/var/chroot/home/content/p/p/a/myaccount/html/efilmpro/wp-content/plugins/gc/cron.php: Permission denied

I don’t know much about cron jobs, but do you know what went wrong here.

I can’t wait to get your wonderful plugin working. Thanks again and any help on this will be very much appreciated.
Regards

40 | Bastian

August 19th, 2007 at 7:51 pm

Hi Vladimir,
i searched for a working wp-plugin to import an atom-feed from blogger.com - wp-o-matic and so on dont work.

Now i tried ContentGen++ - its very… simple… and does not work for me?! It tried to import articles from my blogger.com-Blog into my wordpress, but contentgen++ dont import these ! I tried more than 3 times to call the cron.php - but it dont help…

Maybe, you’ve an Idea?

(And you’ve got a mistake… on the options-page you wrote “Cron should be set to trigger (visit) fallowing url http://www.myblog.com/wp-content/gc/cron.php (where myblog.com is your blogs domain) atleast every hour.”, but the correct path is (imho?) /wp-content/plugins/gc/cron.php. Or will this path rewritten by the permalinks?

41 | Rob Mitchell

August 21st, 2007 at 10:09 pm

How do I get the contentgen+ to display images from a feed?

42 | Rob Mitchell

August 27th, 2007 at 5:24 am

Can you explain how to set up the manual cron job to run. I have tried multiple ways and nothing seems to work.

43 | Lazaros

September 8th, 2007 at 2:27 pm

hi i just installed your plugin and i can understand how rss feeds show and where.
i create a fake post named today news and the at you plugin i choose my prefered category and paste inside the rss feed., but i can see any rss inside when i click on category.?
is possible to help me? also as for the cron i use automated but i cjeck ti also and with manual from my server.

44 | David

September 20th, 2007 at 8:15 am

Vladimir,
Hello. I found your blog as I was attempting to locate a resolution that I am having with wp_smartrss. I get an implode warning error as I attempt to stream the rss feed into my blog. It occurs at this line: $data = implode(”", file($filename)); I think my host may be requiring a cURL for security reasons. Can you help with this? Will ContenGen+ have more likely success? Thanks for any info. I am stuck manually entering content.
David

45 | Howard

September 20th, 2007 at 9:49 pm

Hi Installed your plugin and I think I may be missing something. I have selected the rss feed assigned it too a category went to the cron job link and I still do not see any population. Am I missing something?

46 | Sri

October 5th, 2007 at 11:17 am

Do you have any update available for Wodpress 2.3
The existing plugin is not working with Wordpress 2.3

[Table 'mydb.wp_categories' doesn't exist]
SELECT cat_ID, cat_name FROM wp_categories WHERE ( link_count = 0 OR category_count != 0 OR ( link_count = 0 AND category_count = 0 ) ) ORDER BY category_count DESC

47 | The Jerk

October 11th, 2007 at 2:31 am

Is there an issue with the newest versions of wordpress?

I get this error:

WordPress database error: [Table 'wordpressdb.wp_categories' doesn't exist]

48 | Sri

October 17th, 2007 at 8:32 am

Can make it compliant with Wordpress 2.3?

49 | Loretta

November 19th, 2007 at 9:06 am

I also get the table does not exist error mentioned above. Is this a WP 2.3 glitch perhaps?

50 | Dick

November 23rd, 2007 at 11:16 pm

No, it’s because WP changed the Categories structure in 2.3.1. Many plugins suffered from this change.
So, we have to wait for Vladimir to update his plugin..

51 | Afizi

December 27th, 2007 at 11:28 am

Seems very great plug in.. I’m waiting the update plugin to be work with wp 2.3.1
Thanks

52 | Mike

January 20th, 2008 at 11:09 am

When come a new version that work with the new Wordpress version?

53 | m00nc0w

January 30th, 2008 at 2:39 pm

Hi there Vladimir. First of all, hat of for you work. If you don’t mind I would have a question. I have a little problem with the plugin on my site. Probably I`m just too newbie, but after installing the plugin and tried to add a new rss (to asign it to a category) when I want to select a categorie the list is empty. Do you some suggestions for me?

Thank you in advance.

54 | Rico

February 13th, 2008 at 6:42 pm

Hello.
I’m french and there is a bug about letters with an accent. Test for exemple this feed : http://www.webrankinfo.com/rss.php

Article on my blog (title and content) are stopped wehn there is “é”…
Thanks for upgrade (and sorry for my poor english)

55 | collins

April 2nd, 2008 at 5:52 pm

Can you please let me know if contentGen+ is compatible with WordPress 2.0 because it crashed my site after the installation. I had to delete the contentGen+ folder from the plugin directory to get my site up again.

Your response will be appreciated.

Thanks,

-Collins

56 | Vladimir Cvetic

April 3rd, 2008 at 4:25 pm

@collins and others,

There are plenty other splog solutions out there, i am sure one of them will fit your needs.

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