Feeding a blog

[HairyHun]

Hi,

Has anyone developped a simple system where they can put content into an excel file or something like that and the script would read it and post to a WP blog.

I'm thinking four columns: date, category, content, title

If you get high volume short posts format content it would be great.

Anyone has done this or found a tool for this?
Maybe we can do something open source together if not

HH

 

[argh01]

No, I haven't done anything like that. However, you could combine a spreadsheet, probably saved as a .csv file, with a fairly simple script that tied in with that recent post on Nickycakes' blog about posting to wordpress with xmlrpc.

Or do what I do and write a bunch of posts and set their post dates manually for the future

 

[nickycakes]

Post to Wordpress Remotely With XMLRPC in PHP | NickyCakes.com

pretty easy to feed posts into that from a database.

 

[argh01]

Yeah that. But doesn't everyone have your blog bookmarked already? I figured he just needed a reminder :buttkiss:

 

[stmadeveloper]

save it as a text file with tab breaks between your 'title' and your 'post'. Read through the text file a line at a time - and use nickycakes or tellinya's methods to post to your wp blog.

That simple with php.

If you want ruby/rails code for posting to wordpress it's out there too I bet - or just drop me a pm and I'll give you mine.

 

[HairyHun]

Good stuff guys!

But all these solutions would post in a salvo the whole file or is there way to set the time intervals.

I have a source of a few hundred short articles. I'd like to set things up ahead and then have it post 2 x day until it runs out kind of stuff.

HH

 

[Red_Virus]

Hey HH, I think WP Article Uploader - Post Your Articles Automatically! this is what you are looking for, I have not tried it and cannot vouch that it will work.