Anybody Know of a Wordpress Plugin/Script That Automatically Posts Blog Entries?
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But a mysql script that loops through the post time stamp entires while advancing the date wouldn't be tedious.
Then outsource it.
You said they were "queued up" like they were already uploaded and ready to go, just needed to be posted every three days. If that's the case then a conservative estimate of 2 edits per minute would mean about an hour to set up 120 posts.
If they aren't in wordpress yet then a conservative estimate of inserting 12 posts per hour would mean about 10 hours of work.
If you would have started yesterday instead of waiting for someone else to solve your problem, you'd be done by now.
If 10 hours is too much work for you to set up something that you won't have to touch for the next year, then fucking outsource it.
Simply my time is better spent doing other stuff then this type of grunt work, thats why I came here for a suggestion. I'm not sitting idle waiting for "someone else to solve my problem".
I plan on launching a bunch of new sites in the next couple of months in which i have tons of articles being written that will need to be posted daily.Having script to automate this would obviously be the most efficient, then hiring somebody.
I'm here to ask if there is such plugin/script that already exists, before I have to go out and find a programmer. Do you get me?
There are a bunch of tools that do this. Here are some.
wpDripFeeder - SuperCharge Your Wordpress Blogs, Automate Your Posting
WP Article Uploader - Post Your Articles Automatically!
WordPress Article Import Plugin — Webous Agency
wpDripFeeder - SuperCharge Your Wordpress Blogs, Automate Your Posting
WP Article Uploader - Post Your Articles Automatically!
WordPress Article Import Plugin — Webous Agency
Try Niche Power Builder Too. I'm to lazy to get the url, but it's basically nichpowerbuilder.com (I believe). Just put all the txt files into folders and it turns the folder into categories and posts the files in that folder into the categories. You can randomize it too I believe. I've been looking to swap with someone for WP Article Uploader myself!
Maybe not that one!
Would anyone be interested in a free service to do this?
I'm working on something at the moment along these lines and while I'd rather not sell it or give out the (undoubtedly buggy) code I've been spending ages on (it's not hard, I'm just slow!) just yet, I could host it (if you promise not to click on the ads!)
It's part of another project really, but not much work to get it online if anyone wanted to use it. It basically just creates wp format xml files to import with posts future dated (an idea borrowed from Seocracy's Datapresser). If anyone is interested let me know how you would prefer to enter your content and I'll get it sorted.
Alternatively this might suit you - bit of copying and pasting, but easier than manually entering posts:
1. From a WP blog (with at least one post) go to manage - export, save the file
2. look at file and work out what goes where - kinda obvious, but think i had probs with the tags, or maybe it was the categories.. and can't seem to get it to change the title and tagline, but that's not a big problem
3. Copy and paste your content into the xml file
5. Set the dates for when you want to post
4. Go to new blog - manage - import - wordpress
Frank E, I will look at the database fields, but it should be a simple script to make since it just goes to the database field for the first post and set it a couple of days in the future and then just add a couple of days to the offset for each succeeding post it finds.
You could construct the import xml file pretty easily using a php script on localhost and then there no manual work at all. This might be the suggestion if the posts aren't already in a database.
You could construct the import xml file pretty easily using a php script on localhost and then there no manual work at all. This might be the suggestion if the posts aren't already in a database.
One thing I heard from an SEO point of view is that you want something that posts randomly so you don't leave footprints (i.e. google sees you post every Wednesday at 3:44am, that sort of thing)...
yeah, that could be solved with a simple randomization of the hours and minutes as well as the day gaps between postings.
I spent a couple hours playing around with creating WordPress Export Files on the fly and it's not hard to create one to import to your site. Just create a blank template of the WXR file and start replacing some of the definitions with variables. I think it'd only take a couple of days to have a working prototype that would read in files from directory and create a WordPress Export file with semi-random post dates running into the future.
Gotcha, I didn't mean to sound as shitty as I did.
I have a bunch of WP sites up (even though I can't stand it), I just have my writers insert the posts and set the dates.
i will post that poster for you tomorrow., don't have zip file with me,
How it works - MySQL database + cron + some php file you have to put into you WP admin folder. Put schedule and off it goes. Actually very handy, but it doen't do it multiple - as I want it to post XYZ acrticles to blog A, DDF artilce to blog B and so, on their own schedule too.
So it sucks for me.
How it works - MySQL database + cron + some php file you have to put into you WP admin folder. Put schedule and off it goes. Actually very handy, but it doen't do it multiple - as I want it to post XYZ acrticles to blog A, DDF artilce to blog B and so, on their own schedule too.
So it sucks for me.
Like che1959 said, you can construct a xml file with predated posts and then import it with feedwordpress or something.
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