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Any Autoblog Alternatives?

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Hi

Was wondering if anyone has tried any other autoblog plugins out there, like WP Robot or Autoblogger. Autoblog plugin seems to have some bugs and I would like to know my options, I just need something that can post tags, categories, and embed youtube videos from RSS feeds.

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:49:13
  • andrewjtalcott
    • Flash Drive

    Hi, thanks for the reply, yes I have posted about this.

    The tags issue I have not heard anything on and the response for the iframe tags being stripped I heard would be worked in to the next version but there is no “ETA” on when.

    I went through the code for the plugin, was hoping it would be commented out better but it is not.

    These issues seem to have come up from other members as well, no solutions yet.

  • andrewjtalcott
    • Flash Drive

    Well, it is a wordpress issue, of course, but the point of the plugin is to auto post based on an rss feed, if you can’t embed the youtube videos, it makes it not as desirable. I have read up on some other plugins that do the same thing and list that the functionality I am looking for is possible. Before I shell out more money for another plugin I was wondering if anyone has tried the alternatives.

  • Barry
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Well, it is a wordpress issue, of course, but the point of the plugin is to auto post based on an rss feed, if you can’t embed the youtube videos

    You can, you just need to install the unfilteredhtml plugin to allow iframes (and other tags) to be added to posts without WP stripping them.

  • andrewjtalcott
    • Flash Drive

    Hi Barry,

    Thanks for the response, I knew your site looked familiar, you are the coder who created autoblog, correct? Funny you didn’t mention that. I tried the unfilteredhtml plugin, it does not help fix your autoblog plugin. Another moderator mentioned you would be working on a new version soon, do you know when you may have a working version? Are these features going to be in the new version of your plugin?

    thanks

    andrew

  • Barry
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Funny you didn’t mention that

    :slight_smile: It’s in the information box on the right hand side of the autoblog plugin page: Core developer: Barry

    Another moderator mentioned you would be working on a new version soon, do you know when you may have a working version?

    It’s out already – it’s designed as a framework feed importer now, so it can be extended for specific tasks.. You can either modify that plugin so that it works for all users and not just the editor and administrator – or – you can use an autoblog add-on (create a php file and place it in autoblog/autoblogincludes/plugins directory) containing something like:

    <?php
    
function AP_removekses() {
    
kses_remove_filters();
    
}
    

    
add_action('autoblog_pre_process_feeds', 'AP_removekses');
    
?>

    Which would remove all the filters before autoblog runs and imports a feed.