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Help with a Simple RSS WP Plugin?

by jrapisarda
6 replies
Man... I've been banging my head against my desk for the last three hours looking for a simple RSS plugin for Wordpress!

All I need it to do is... post a feed to a specific category and continue to post on autopilot.

Does anyone have any suggestions for something under $30?
#plugin #rss #simple
  • Profile picture of the author Andrew O
    Haha, just a minute ago I posted a thread asking for suggestions on what wordpress plugin I should develop.

    So you're looking for something where you give it an RSS feed url, and it posts each entry from that feed as a post into a specified category? And continues to update each time that feed has a new entry?

    Update:
    These both look similar to what you're asking for:
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rss-digest/
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rss-importer/
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    • Profile picture of the author jrapisarda
      Originally Posted by AndrewOlson View Post

      Haha, just a minute ago I posted a thread asking for suggestions on what wordpress plugin I should develop.

      So you're looking for something where you give it an RSS feed url, and it posts each entry from that feed as a post into a specified category? And continues to update each time that feed has a new entry?

      Update:
      These both look similar to what you're asking for:
      WordPress › RSS Digest WordPress Plugins
      WordPress › RSS Importer WordPress Plugins
      That's correct and thank you for your suggestions. I tried both and rss digest reports invalid feeds... tried using several formats - oh well.

      Rss importer will not except an actual feed since you can only import local rss files. I'm looking for something more automated.
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      • Profile picture of the author sbc
        Originally Posted by jrapisarda View Post

        That's correct and thank you for your suggestions. I tried both and rss digest reports invalid feeds... tried using several formats - oh well.
        Hi, I am the author of RSS Digest. Can you share a few examples of the feed URLs that fail?
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        • Profile picture of the author jrapisarda
          Originally Posted by sbc View Post

          Hi, I am the author of RSS Digest. Can you share a few examples of the feed URLs that fail?

          Okay... tried it again and this one worked:

          Yahoo! News: Movie News

          After adding the one above I tried a couple more and it wouldn't post anymore feeds. Weird thing is... I'm not getting the invalid feed errors after adding them like yesterday.

          As far as the one's that didn't work... I'm not sure which ones tried... I was just testing random feeds from a huge file I have.

          I remember them ending in (.xml & /feed).

          Sorry I couldn't help.
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  • Profile picture of the author cma01
    WP-O-Matic will do this. WordPress › WP-o-Matic WordPress Plugins

    It will run off of a cron job.
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    • Profile picture of the author jrapisarda
      Originally Posted by cma01 View Post

      WP-O-Matic will do this. WordPress › WP-o-Matic WordPress Plugins

      It will run off of a cron job.
      For some reason... I couldn't get it to work on one of my blogs, but after you suggesting it... I tried it on another and it worked! Thank You!!!
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