The Easiest WP AutoBlogger Ever, And It's Totally FREE!

[Scot Standke]

Hey Gang,

I've noticed a trend here in recent weeks on interest in Auto-Blogging.

I'd like to share with you a little known FREE, script I have been testing
out over the past few weeks and have fallen in love with.

This has to be the easiest install ever, you simply upload the file into
your WP Plugins folder and that's it

The script was designed by a Medical Doctor in India by the name of
Satheesh and is called YAAB, (Yet Another Autoblogger):

Yet Another Autoblogger (YAAB) For Wordpress

Comparing to other autoblogger plugins, YAAB has/can

1. Convert each rss item to separate blog entries (MODE : DUPLICATE)

2. Create an automatic blogging carnival in your blog using rss feeds.
Summaries of entries from different blogs will be published in to single
posts. (MODE: CARNIVAL)

3. You can post blog using SMS. Detailed tutorials will be published
soon. (MODE: SMS BLOGGING)

4. You can run a automatic youtube clone website by automatically
embedding youtube videos in your posts. (MODE : YOUTUBE CLONING)

5. Built in cron jobs. No need to use external or servers cron jobs.
(many servers do not allow cron jobs)

6. No need of curl extension in server.

7. No need to install external rss classes like simplepie. Yaab uses
magpie that is built in with wordpress.

8. Interactive interface where you will never get confused.

9. Update alert at plugin dashboard.

10. Free and GPLv3

This script is extremely versatile and easy to use.

If you have WP blogs sitting around collecting digital dust, give this
little gem a whirl, you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Enjoy!

Scot

[Andyhenry]

He's even got a warrior thread in linked in his comments section: Best Tools To Post Automated Content To Wordpress?

[menj]

Looks good but does it work with WP 2.7? Some of the Autoblogger plugins I've seen work only with 2.5 and below.

[Miguel Oliveira]

Originally Posted by menj

Looks good but does it work with WP 2.7? Some of the Autoblogger plugins I've seen work only with 2.5 and below.

And if it doesn't, is there a 2.5 version of WP available to download?

[Scot Standke]

Originally Posted by menj

Looks good but does it work with WP 2.7? Some of the Autoblogger plugins I've seen work only with 2.5 and below.

He just came out with an update, so I'm assuming that it's up to
date with the latest WP release. (No certain though).

Scot

[Scot Standke]

Originally Posted by Miguel Oliveira

And if it doesn't, is there a 2.5 version of WP available to download?

Hey Miguel,

In case you still need it, here is the download link for WordPress 2.5:

http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.5.zip

Scot

[Tim Dixon]

Originally Posted by menj

Looks good but does it work with WP 2.7? Some of the Autoblogger plugins I've seen work only with 2.5 and below.

Yes it does work on WP2.7

I've got it on test on one of my sites and it works pretty well.

Definately an alternative for WP-O-Matic.

Tim

[Golelen]

My question is this....

Can the posts be configured to arrive in Draft mode so that I can preview them before posting? I've used autoblogging tools in the past and my biggest complaint was that stuff in the RSS feed would be posted that I didn't want and I didn't have much control over it.

[Scot Standke]

Originally Posted by Golelen

My question is this....

Can the posts be configured to arrive in Draft mode so that I can preview them before posting? I've used autoblogging tools in the past and my biggest complaint was that stuff in the RSS feed would be posted that I didn't want and I didn't have much control over it.

Yup

Scot

[Keith Kogane]

If it did the replace/relink that WPOM does, I'd switch. Alas, that one key ingredient is vital to my method, so for now, I stick with WPOM.

However, if they add that feature, I'd change sides in a second. I'm not married to any of the plugins I use or mention. I use the cheapest and easiest combo that will get me where I want to go.

[cypherslock]

My question here is how do you consistently get fresh content that isn't directly copied? Is there a plugin for that?

[Scot Standke]

You can add your own 'fresh' content above and beyond
what these scripts pull in.

"Duplicate Content" is a myth, IMO.

My blogs work and get PR so there must be something to it.

As long as they look nice and provide real value to the end
user, Google should not have an issue with it.

Scot

[cypherslock]

ok so what would be recommmended to get the content?

[Scot Standke]

Originally Posted by cypherslock

ok so what would be recommmended to get the content?

The script itself is designed to pull in content via RSS feeds from
the various sources you pick and choose.

In a local blog I run, I'll use feeds from my local paper or the local
university as a few examples.

You can also copy and paste PLR articles into the blog themselves,
or...

You can write a unique article once in a while and post to the blogs.

As long as you are creating a useful landing spot for your visitors,
then it will look good in the eyes of the SE's.

Scot

[cliffmaster]

I downloaded this plugin over a week ago and have yet to use. I am using Caffeinated Content for right now, but plan on using this little do-hicky on another blog of mine.

[michaelmac]

Great stuff Scot, i was looking for an alternative to WP-O-Matic...just downloaded!

Michael

[TLTheLiberator]

Just another super tip from a fellow WF member.


Thanks!!

TL

[menj]

Thanks for the answers, I will download the plugin and try it out

[Scot Standke]

Hi Satheesh,

Welcome to the Warrior Forum, I see you found the post

Great script and the fact that you are continually developing it
is terrific news.

I have some suggestions you may want to add if you are interested,
please PM me when you get a moment.

Scot

[jcaviani]

I have every plugin known to mankind - free and paid. Yet Another Autoblogger (YAAB) For Wordpress is the cream of the crop - period.

Another thing....too few people have really investigated Carp, Grouper, (geckotribe) and Yahoo pipes. Let's stop talking about all the popgun plugins out there and get into discussing some real mashups. With a bit of elbow grease, one can collect, collate and massage all kinds of data into a CUSTOM usable user experience.

As O'Reilly said (perhaps not in this exact context) Data is the next Intel inside.

[robert11]

Thanks for sharing, is there a tutorial on how to use it for people completely new to this kind of thing?

[cliffmaster]

Hi Satheesh, I first want to thank you in offering this plugin free. I downloaded and activated it. I had no problem in fetching a google rss, but when I tried to fetch another feed, it returned zero results even though there was rss data available to pull in. The only thing I could see was that google had a .rss extension and the other url feed just ended in /feed

[melanied]

I love me some YAAB.

[Keith Kogane]

Satheesh - thanks for clarifying - the earlier versions of the plugin that I used did not have that feature (or at least I couldn't figure how to use them) - I will make some time very soon to look at this plugin and try it out. If it does what you say, I will probably almost certainly switch over to using it.

[Noel2010]

I will check the tutorial since I have no clue. And as with all these plug-ins, they cannot be used on the free blogs?

[IMChick]

Thank you so much for the tutorial. It's very helpful!

[cliffmaster]

Originally Posted by Satheesh

Dear friend, Yaab uses magpie rss parser class to fetch feed content. I have tested with a lot of feed items ( .rss, /feed, ?feed etc etc )..it showed no issues except some temporary errors. I hope the error that you got too is temporary.

I hope so too Satheesh and will work on Yaab today. If I have any other issues I will send them to you. BTW I am using WP 2.7

[sena2gurl]

into auto blogging..is there any plugin/script for blogger.com...it will be interesting though

[pyrmontvillage]

Great Plugin Satheesh, Can't wait to see, what form it takes in a few months.

Thank You for all your work.

[australianrealestate]

Thanks to both Satheesh and also Scott. I like Scotts take on the idea of using the automated stuff and adding extra real content in strategic ways. I totally get that and do the same.

[Ephrils]

Downloaded, and I'll check it out WP blogs, so far, seem to generate hits by themselves still. I'm not gonna ignore something that will make my life easier.

[4morereferrals]

Keith ...

I thought the function, in your first model posted in the big long huge @$$ thread for WPOMATIC was to not just replace text with other text but to place LINKS on your posts keywords.

Does YAAB perform this?

enhanced Regex capabilities are sweet an all - but the missing piece Im having is autoplacement of links on my keywords.

I look forward to ya'lls advisement...

[wpomatic] was a no go for me - it banged up my theme - as I recall.

You may recall I was extolling YAAB in Tim Dixons threads and well ... nifty little softie!

[SoEasyMoney]

Since I'm new to blogging this post is really interesting. Could someone tell me the advantages/disadvantages to auto blogging. Except, of course, the obvious--writing the content yourself---who has time to do that any more?

Also, I've ready some on here about Yahoo pipes. Anyone care to explain that one?

[Swine43]

Thanks for sharing this info!

Cheers, Mikko.

[4morereferrals]

Satheesh,

The benefit of Wp-O-Matic is that it will add hyperlinks pointing your affiliate products pages ... automatically for whatever KEYWORDs you specify in the replacement field.

.... As I understand its function ...

[Keith Kogane]

Originally Posted by 4morereferrals

Satheesh,

The benefit of Wp-O-Matic is that it will add hyperlinks pointing your affiliate products pages ... automatically for whatever KEYWORDs you specify in the replacement field.

.... As I understand its function ...

WP-O-Matic allows for the replacement of words/phrases as they appear in the incoming RSS content, as well as allowing you to insert specified hyperlinks with those words as the anchor text.

It seems like this COULD be done with YAAB although in a more roundabout way. I imagine you could replace "word" with "<a href='whatever'>word</a>"...

It's inelegant, but might work. Not sure. Haven't tested yet. I really like a lot of the other features as well.

[GeorgR.]

yabb has potential, but the few times i used it it displayed weird things, like all text BIG.

It needs some more work, otherwise it could become a very good plugin-

[Jon Alexander]

Originally Posted by SoEasyMoney

Since I'm new to blogging this post is really interesting. Could someone tell me the advantages/disadvantages to auto blogging. Except, of course, the obvious--writing the content yourself---who has time to do that any more?

Also, I've ready some on here about Yahoo pipes. Anyone care to explain that one?

it does look like a lot of fun, and it's free, so well done that man - kind of a 'caffeinated content' but without a pricetag :-). One thing I would say - It doesn't address the issue of generating unique content though. There's a good (free) primer about autoblogging at Unlimited free traffic using autoblogs and autoblogging if you want to fast track.

[SoEasyMoney]

I need some help, please.

I've installed Yaab on my WP blog. But, now it's asking me for Feed URLs. Where might I find these?

[teazers4]

Thanks for the plugin Satheesh and Thanks to Scot for passing it on. The way this threads going he might have it working exactly how each of you want it in the next revision.

I'm definately going to give it a try.

Neil

[GeorgR.]

yaab has a regex function which is extremely powerful for replacing patterns and URLs - too bad regex expressions always give me headaches

[cliffmaster]

What exactly is a regex function ?

[Scot Standke]

Originally Posted by cliffmaster

What exactly is a regex function ?

I'm guessing it's short for Regular Expressions:

Regular Expressions - a Simple User Guide

I could be way off base though

Scot

[Bishop81]

Originally Posted by Scot Standke

I'm guessing it's short for Regular Expressions:

Regular Expressions - a Simple User Guide

I could be way off base though

Scot

Absolutely correct.

[Keith Kogane]

I've been testing YAAB and I have to say I'm very impressed with the newer features that have been added over time. The replace function you have in there works great for my purposes, and I find the internal cron to be a little more stable than that I can get with WP-O-Matic sometimes.

Great work!

I'm currently using in only on a non-public blog that I engineered just for remixing content to use elsewhere. To that end, I tried using the "publish to email" feature, but couldn't get it working.

As an alternative, I've begun to use "Post Notification" plugin and that seems to work okay for the time being.

Very, very powerful piece of software. Thanks very much for releasing it to the public for free!

[Roger Mayne]

I've recently installed this plugin on one of my local blogs, and added in feeds from relevant news sites. I have mine set to keep the posts as draft until I have had a chance to see what is going to be published, then I add my own text around it to keep it unique.

It works really well. I am very impressed with it.

[PeteHarrison]

Originally Posted by cliffmaster

I downloaded this plugin over a week ago and have yet to use. I am using Caffeinated Content for right now, but plan on using this little do-hicky on another blog of mine.

Why not use them both together for twice the fun

[shukes]

Originally Posted by jcaviani

I have every plugin known to mankind - free and paid. Yet Another Autoblogger (YAAB) For Wordpress is the cream of the crop - period.

Another thing....too few people have really investigated Carp, Grouper, (geckotribe) and Yahoo pipes. Let's stop talking about all the popgun plugins out there and get into discussing some real mashups. With a bit of elbow grease, one can collect, collate and massage all kinds of data into a CUSTOM usable user experience.

As O'Reilly said (perhaps not in this exact context) Data is the next Intel inside.

Hi I have tried using Yahoo pipes and I definately see the potential, do you have any tips available to set this sort of thing up, becauseeverytime i try it i get news reel via RSS diplayed on a service like google reader, but what i want is a system that inserts mashed up RSS feeds into my blog as a post. or is this eutopia???

Peter

[MKyle]

Thanks for the info. I'll download it tonight and try it out over the weekend. I'm using several different autoblogging plugins now, but I'm always looking for new and better.

[shukes]

I also use UAW, but occasionally you get un-usual posts that are clearly un-relevant - Is that a word??

thanks for the FREE download of YAAB

Peter