Anyone using WP-O-Matic?

[Zachary R. Skinner]

I just installed the wp o matic plugin into a fresh wordpress blog.

Everything was going smoothly until I got to the cronjob section then I suddenly felt my eyes go cross.

How do I setup the cron job function for this plugin?

Thanks guys!

[zerofill]

Zach....
I have my cron running on a remote machine that calls the cron.php file...
However you can do this in cpanel as well...

http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cron.php

Look for cron jobs in advanced in cpanel...

[Eric Stanley]

You can also directly edit the cron.php located in:

http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cron.php

And add the line that wp-o-matic spits out.

Easy as pie.

[joblythe]

Hi Zachary

Two ways to do it - either manually using the url which is generated by WP O Matic - which obviously means you have to remember to do it!!

Or the "proper" way by setting up a cron job on your hosting.

If you are unsure what to do (each host can have slight differences) - just put in a support ticket to your host - they will normally set it up for you. Just give them the command which is generated by wp-o-matic and the frequency.

HTH

[Leanne King]

If you are using cpanel just click the icon for cron jobs and choose the standard cron. From the table choose when you want to run and paste in the command that WP O matic spits out. Save it and you are done.

Leanne

[Zachary R. Skinner]

So I've already installed the plugin so I don't have the line of code handy.

I've uninstalled and reinstalled the plugin but I can't seem to get the plugin to spit out the code.

Any suggestions?

I appreciate the help!

[Uncle Dimitry]

RSS will give you useless crap from other people sites

Better user your own content. Or at least upload PLR articles. Here is a free site to do that: Blogomator

Uncle Dimitry

[joblythe]

Zach

You need settings, WP-O-Matic then Options to get the cron code.

[Allegro]

To get the cronjob feature working, you don't need to be a wizard.

You copy the cronjob command from your wp-o-matic (without the stars and slashes and numbers before it - but with the cryptic looking commands before the url!) via Ctrl+C, go to the cPanel of your webhost and click on the "Cronjobs" icon. If you have troubles finding the code: it is in the options menu. You have the option to use the Unix based fetching method (that one that you want to use!) and a paid webcron method. So dont forget to check the box that says that you are going to use the Unix-based method of your webhost!
There you choose the simple version, not the Unix-based one!
Then you set the whole shedule boxes as you need them, i for one use daily ones. What can confuse you here is how to set it to "always on the full hour" - but its easy. You set it to "every hour" and then in the minutes box you click "0".
Finally click in the "command" field, hit Ctrl + V. Then add some random freemail-account you created for this purpose in the "send notifications to" box. You want to use a freemail-adress that you will never check because everytime that command is run the system sends you an email, what can really mess up your serious email accounts.

Check if everything as you want it to be and submit the cronjob. Congratulations, you're done. Easy as that!

[Eric Reimers]

Originally Posted by Uncle Dimitry

RSS will give you useless crap from other people sites

Better user your own content. Or at least upload PLR articles. Here is a free site to do that: Blogomator

Uncle Dimitry

Not necessarily, you pick the feeds you want to use and then load them into WP O Matic.

[jsmith2482]

Anyone know how to use WP-O-Matic with a godaddy hosting account?

[Eric Reimers]

Originally Posted by jsmith2482

Anyone know how to use WP-O-Matic with a godaddy hosting account?

Not sure if you're understanding WP-O-Matic correctly. It's a plugin for wordpress. If you have Wordpress installed on your godaddy account, then you just upload wp-o-matic to your plugins folder.

For a more see WordPress › WP-o-Matic WordPress Plugins

[BigSexy]

I'm using WPOMATIC on a GoDaddy hosting.

Anyone knows how should I set frequency and minute setting in GOdaddy Cronjob panel?

Thanx.

[kevinw1]

Anyone having trouble setting up WP-O-Matic should read the several LONG recent threads on auto-blogging. There are lots of questions and answers right there.

[4morereferrals]

@kevinw1 - I didnt want to bugger up Keiths righteous thread ... so since this is a WP o Matic titled thread I kinda felt my question was suited here - sorry if I give some of ya'll heartburn on it - dont mean to.

Ive dl'd and installed the wpomatic plugin 2x now and now joy. On hostgator, the setup TEST says my host is good to go and all that.

I dl'd the latest version simple pie like it instructs as well.

From the SETUP screen I cannot get anything to happen! I click next on the button of step 1 of 4 - nada. Crickets chirping.

I cant get WP o matic to setup - incompatible plug in or theme elsewhere perhaps?

On on the Remix2 theme ...

[4morereferrals]

On the subject of Word Press and Posting ...

Anyone know of a way to have your posts "by category" show up on a certain PAGE I've added vs. the default HOME page?

For example ... if I have a Post category called Daily Tips ... and a PAGE called Daily Tips - Id like those blog posts categorized as Daily Tips to ONLY appear on the Daily Tips page. Seems so damn logical to me - yet I just cant seem to find the capabilities. Im amazed.

I know you can "exclude" certain posts by category from showing up on the HOME page ... but WP as a CMS seems like a farse if you cant direct POSTS to certain sections of your site.

Ive searched WP Forums and Googled seriously for hrs now. This really shouldnt be this challenging - should it? I see lots of requests and yeah - that'd be a killer plug in or feature of WP, but no real solutions.

[Adustul]

yeah i've got similar issues.

On the cron job I've tried through godaddy's cron manager and editing the cron.php.

should the syntax start with /usr then for the cron job?

Anyone have a sample cron.php they could share the code too?

[Adustul]

figured it out using allegro's info

Thanks allegro

worked fine putting in the godaddy cron job manager after deleting the preceding characters

[kevinw1]

If you un-check the "unix cron" checkbox, wp-o-matic will use its built in cron instead and you don't have to set up cron jobs on your host at all. You may have trouble with multiple duplicate posts though - see this thread on the wp-o-matic forums if you do:
#148 Problem with Multiple Same Posts - WP-o-Matic - wpomatic
Thanks to Tim Dixon for pointing me to that thread. It really is worthwhile reading the other autoblogging threads

Kevin

[ifeelgod]

For all of you wanting to make sure your cron job runs with wp-o-matic this is what I ended up doing.

Since I have CPanel, I copied the cron command from inside the wp-o-matic setup page. I did NOT copy the /20 * * * just the /usr/bin/curl 'h ttp://mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cron. php?code=bd000000'

I then went to cron in CPanel and selected my timing. I only wanted it to check the feeds once per day at 6am. I then copied the command into the command window. BUT I added a single qoute before and after the URL and a semicolon at the end of the line.

The command now looks like this:
/usr/bin/curl 'h ttp://mydoomain.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cron. php? code=bd000000';

Click save and it works PERFECTLY! It would run the cron, without these changes, at the right time but it would not execute the command. Adding these changes completely solved the problem.

In Him,
JMb <><

[4morereferrals]

Originally Posted by ifeelgod

For all of you wanting to make sure your cron job runs with wp-o-matic this is what I ended up doing.

Since I have CPanel, I copied the cron command from inside the wp-o-matic setup page. I did NOT copy the /20 * * * just the /usr/bin/curl 'h ttp://mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cron. php?code=bd000000'

I then went to cron in CPanel and selected my timing. I only wanted it to check the feeds once per day at 6am. I then copied the command into the command window. BUT I added a single qoute before and after the URL and a semicolon at the end of the line.

The command now looks like this:
/usr/bin/curl 'h ttp://mydoomain.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cron. php? code=bd000000';

Click save and it works PERFECTLY! It would run the cron, without these changes, at the right time but it would not execute the command. Adding these changes completely solved the problem.

In Him,
JMb <><

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