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Barry
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3rd July 2011
Hi Gang
Autoblog 3.5.1 was released early this morning / late last night :)
It has a few bug fixes / updates in it to bring it up and ready for WP3.2, and also a few functionality changes / updates.
Changes to some functionality.
There is now an option to add a feeds "categories" as categories or tags, and the option to create any that don't exist locally.
I've added another add-on to the system, which when enabled will allow you to reset the autoblog timer - this is useful if autoblog stops or pauses in it's processing for some reason.
Adding posts to other blogs/sites - If you use autoblog in the Blog/Site admin area then you can add feeds to populate that site/blog. Clicking to go through to the Network Admin area, the Autoblog admin area on that side will allow you to add/edit feeds that can populate any site/blog in your network whether you have autoblog activated on them or not.
It is available for download from the usual place.
Autoblog 3.5.1 was released early this morning / late last night :)
It has a few bug fixes / updates in it to bring it up and ready for WP3.2, and also a few functionality changes / updates.
Changes to some functionality.
There is now an option to add a feeds "categories" as categories or tags, and the option to create any that don't exist locally.
I've added another add-on to the system, which when enabled will allow you to reset the autoblog timer - this is useful if autoblog stops or pauses in it's processing for some reason.
Adding posts to other blogs/sites - If you use autoblog in the Blog/Site admin area then you can add feeds to populate that site/blog. Clicking to go through to the Network Admin area, the Autoblog admin area on that side will allow you to add/edit feeds that can populate any site/blog in your network whether you have autoblog activated on them or not.
It is available for download from the usual place.
In the Network Admin section, all of our sites with autoblog feeds are listed but if you go to to edit any individual feeds, they all have the root blog chosen in the "post blogs to" section instead of the correct blog such as ABC Blog Feed posting blogs to "abc.rootdomain.com.....
Also, if more than one blogs is checked in Network Admin section and the "process blogs" button is pushed nothing happens but if one blog is checked the "process blogs" button is checked, it will complete successfully.
We're also still seeing all feeds that processing times stuck in the past, how do we use the Auto Blog reset plugin? Does it have to be turned on forever or until a specific action occurs? Can this be used sitewide or do we have to manually turn this on for potentially hundreds of sites?
We're still seeing all feeds stuck with the "Next Check" times being in the past after we manually "Reset" every single site using the reset plugin. Any help appreciated.
Also, processing feeds from Network Admin section updates the last processed and next check time stamps but has no effect on the feeds. We're having to manually go to each individual site and manually process to get new content processed ....
i am not having the "next check" issue, but I am having to manually process the feeds. The feeds are processing daily - but not on schedule - for example, the feeds that are set to process every thirty minutes - it's not happening. I too am having to go in and manually push the feeds along. I am running newswires off of my site - so it is important to me that the feeds process close in the manner that they are set up. That being said, I love the new interface. It's awesome.
Looking into this - hopefully get an update out as soon as I track down the issue.
@msaizan - how is the traffic to your site? Processing is reliant on site traffic unless you have set up a cron job to hit the site at regular intervals.
Also noticing that the "Treat feed categories as" section will add all tags as a category if "categories" is chosen and add all tags as tags so it looks like the section should be called "Treat feed tags as" based on the behavior ....
RSS only has categories in it's format spec, so it's a case of treating them all as categories or all as tags ( wordpress ouptuts all categories and tags in RSS as categories )
Gotcha, it's just that when you say "categories" many people aren't realizing that you are also talking about tags and aren't aware of what you just explained. I thought we were going to be adding categories as a tag by choosing "tags", so we chose to treat categories to be categories to "prevent them from being treated / added as a tag". This resulted in the last thing we want to occur, all tags being added to the post as a category, which we want to prevent since multiple categories equals multiple URL's pointing to same article which is bad for SEO purposes.
hmmm...that's interesting. I didn't realize that the processing was traffic specific. well it's a new site but I have consistent traffic. still..sounds like i need to set up a cron job. that's the last thing I would have hoped you would say i needed to do! ugh. Are you available for hire or can you recommend someone?
i have one other issue. I don't know if this has anything to do with the plugin itself...but...with google rss feeds - if it's a keyword feed...like "new orleans", for example, this is what the titles look like:
<b>New Orleans<b> Hornets win again
What's Next for the city of <b> New Orleans <b>
The code doesn't display on front side of the post or page - but it does show up in the website's burned feeds (the feeds that people subscribe to through a feed service like Feedburner) and the code displays in a twitter stream. Is there any automated thing that can happen so that the code is stripped out? For one project we were setting the posts to "pending review" and then hand removing the code, but this is not possible in this project - This is a U.S. Gulf Coast portal with multiple major cities as topics (sub sites) and the idea is for up to the minute streaming news - too many posts.
"Processing is reliant on site traffic unless you have set up a cron job to hit the site at regular intervals. "
I'm confused, if you choose to process a feed hourly, it is dependent on traffic to process hourly? Think I'm misunderstanding this.
Also, we just don't have an hour or two every day to manually process hundreds of feeds one by one, it is VERY time consuming. If we revert back to an older version of the plugin will this create issues when we come back to the latest version once a working version is out given the "reset" that was already done via the "reset" plugin? Just wondering if we might create more issues by going back to an older version for a while.
I concur with Tracy. Since there is an option to set the feeds to various intervals, I am not understanding the "traffic dependent aspect of things. Because why have an option to set a feed to an interval at all if the processing is traffic dependent? the other thing is... autoblog is actually part of my traffic strategy - because the constant influx of news is what's indexing me (and quickly too) and driving traffic to the site - and as I have mentioned... the idea is for the news to stream consistently - since these are newswires the posts need to be current. so as it stands right now i am having to go in on the hour and push the feeds manually - and it IS time consuming - and these are just a few feeds - 40 or so...i have been beta testing with various cities - meaning - I haven't even gotten all the newswires up yet! I don't want to have to go back to the older version though - the new interface is jam up and jelly tight and it really works for me to be able to build and segregate the feeds inside the subsite's admin panels - and then to have it added to a list inside network admin. It's a great feature.
Twitter plugin - what we have right now is akin to Blackbird Pie - looks like you can embed one twitter pie in a post? is that how this works. What I would like to have is a way to have a twitter stream - hashtag or keyword search "new orleans" stream the same way the regular feed posts are set up.
just so you know - i have tried various autoblogging plugins - free and premium - WPMU dev autoblog is the best of the best. It's a great plugin and I am very interested in its ongoing development.
A wordpress plugin is reliant on wordpress. Autoblog processes feeds by hooking into an action within wordpress (the init) then checking its own to timestamp to see if it needs to do anything.
If your website doesn't get any traffic, then wordpress isn't loaded, so it can't fire the init action, so autoblog can't run, so can't check it's timestamp, so can't process feeds. If your site is never loaded, then autoblog is never loaded and feeds are never parsed.
Now, that's an extreme case, but if you set your autoblog processing to every 30 minutes, and your site only gets one visitor an hour, then your feeds are only going to get processed when that visitor turns up, because that is the only time wordpress is loaded.
Now, you can enforce a 30 min process, if you think your site isn't getting, or going to consistently get a visitor every 30 mins, then setting up a server cron job to hit a page on your site every 30mins or less then you are guaranteed that visit, even though it is your own visit.
Re:paused threads - got a more "aggressive" site wide reset and check add-on to come. Going to try to get the package zipped tonight and uploaded.
ok. i just set up a cron job for the feeds to process every thirty minutes - miraculously got through it without breaking my site! anyway... i feel much better about this set up. thanks for the advice on that Barry.
I think the point he was making is that cron can run if you don't have at least one visitor to load WP, which shouldn't be an issue for most people. In this case even when cron is running, the plugin is broken, so creating a cron job will not do the trick unfortunately.... if I'm understanding this correctly.
Msaizan - why are you calling that php file? You should be calling a normal page on your site (e.g. Your homepage ) not sure where you got that php file from, but if you can let me know I'll get the docs changed ASAP.
Not sure if it made it into the beta, but is their support for image handling in this version? I'd love to switch over to this, but image handling is important. Autoblogged does pretty well with that if you need ideas for a feature set (it downloads the image to your server, so that autoblog posts aren't hotlinking, creates thumbs, etc)
@ymousley - the addons/plugins functionality made it to this version - which now means we can add in extra functionality via add-ons/plugins - Images and embeds are two of the big bits I want to make available for it so they'll be coming, but will need this version+ in order to be usable.
Barry - there is such no file. mistake on my end. But i am tracking you on calling a normal page on my site. That being said, Tracy is suggesting that a cron job won't work right now. Can you confirm this?
A Cron hitting your homepage is exactly the same as a user hitting your home page, so if your feeds process when you hit the site, then the cron will work just fine. Tracy is having issues with his feeds being stuck or paused (which is tricky to work out the reasons - hence a delay in getting a full and complete fix out for his issue) which is different.
my feeds aren't processing either - even with traffic - because i am hitting every site at least once or twice myself. the feeds appear to be stuck or paused. I am having to push them manually. it's cool. i can hang with that til you get a fix - but just wanted to let you know.
Feeds are not processing. All of the automated processing attempts were returning this notice on the debug list: Notice: Processing stopped due to 3 second timeout.
The list is fairly long and on schedule, the processes just time out. Doing a bulk process of all my feeds also fails to work. The page reloads and reports they were processed, but the last process time doesn't happen and the process times out. The only way to get them to process is a manual, individual process. I only have 10 feeds so it's not that problematic. I'm just having to log in each day to do it.
Website gets regular traffic throughout the day so I know that is not the problem.
The 3 second timeout is there for the safety of your server :) You can increase it, but it may make your site seem less responsive (line 487 of autoblogprocess.php).
Can you try disabling a few of your feeds and see if you can work out which is the slowest and slowing the processing down?
Changed the timeout limit to 6 seconds for now. I also changed the updating to something more frequent so I can troubleshoot this faster.
I've also manually processed each one again. Going to to let it run before I disable them and check them individually and see what happens with the new settings.
With the 6 second setting, the website didn't seem to slow down at all. Will report back when I learn more.
I was having same issue of feed not updating. I changed to 6 seconds and same issue. I commented out the break; and the page loaded in about 1 second with the updated feed.
if (time() > $timestart + $timelimit) {
if($this->debug) {
// time out
$this->errors[] = __('Notice: Processing stopped due to ' . $timelimit . ' second timeout.','autoblog');
}
<strike> //break;</strike>
}
@elmirage001 ...are your feeds automatically processing now? or are you still having to push them manually? it sounds like you were having problems manually processing the feeds? reason I am asking is because i want to know if this is going to solve the problem of the feeds being stuck or paused -which is the situation that i have got. i have no problem manually processing the feeds but they are not automating at this juncture.
Try changing it to --> //break; and see if you feeds automatically process. When you're done testing change it back to --> break; as I don't know at this point how much load it will put on the server. Hopefully this will be a clue for Barry so he can look at all his timing code.
I can report that setting the timeout to 6 seconds still did not work. Am commenting out the break as per the above instructions now. Will report back with a confirmation or fail.
it didn't work for me either. changed the code at 2:00 am - six sec timer and commented out the break... as of 10:00 am the feeds are still paused. no change.
I just did a test and mine worked. I tested with my own non-wordpress rss feed that I create and upload to one of my other sites.
Here is what I did.
1. Changed break; to //break;
2. My "Process Feeds" is set to "every 30 minutes"
3. I have debug On
4. I added an entry to my rss feed.
5. Loaded my page and the new entry did not show. (not 30 minutes yet).
6. Went to dinner, came back and loaded page and the new entry was there.
7. My timeout is set to the default 3 seconds
My debug info.
18:47 says "No new entries..." but the new entry was there.
16:54 was before the 30 minutes.
Mason we're in the middle of testing for an issue with this plugin. These aren't new conversations - it's a cohesive thread about a particular issue. Some of us are having stuck/paused threads. Thoughts are If we move the conversation to a new thread it's going to confuse the issue even more.
I don't think it is stuck, I think it is importing the posts to the wrong place!
I just discovered that it is importing posts, but not to the blogs. It is importing them to my main site!
I only just realized this because I saw in my "Right Now" widget that I've 88 posts there, but I don't do any blogging on my main site. Clicking through to the posts index in the dashboard I discovered all the missing blog posts from various feeds.
Can each of you check your posts on your main site to see if you are getting the same behavior?
What the plugin needs in the edit feed page is a place to input the target blog for the feed. I think the previous version had a auto-generated drop down menu of all the blogs on the network to choose the target. I just noticed this one doesn't have that.
It does appear in the network admin area as you said. But the same feed editing pages are accessible from anywhere on the network. If you aren't paying close attention, you will be setting it up elsewhere, and it appears that it defaults to the main site since the main site is getting all the feeds. At least, I didn't have the problem until I updated to 3.5.1, which apparently caused all the feeds to default automatically to the main site. I'm seeing now that all of them are directed to the main site.
Perhaps a better network control option to hide the autoblog menu on all the subsites (including the main site's admin) and letting it be available in the Network Admin. This may not be a solution for everyone (some folks might like their bloggers having control over these mirrors), but it works my use case.
If you create the feed in a sub-site - it will default to posting to that sub-site. If you create it in network admin, it will allow you to specify which sub-site to post it to.
Perhaps a better network control option to hide the autoblog menu on all the subsites (including the main site's admin) and letting it be available in the Network Admin.
That used to be the case, but a lot of people want it available for single WP, and available to their users on their sites as well so it had to change i'm afraid.
That seems to make sense. Given that it was the update itself that redirected the feeds to the main site, there really doesn't seem much to worry about then (except for maybe making sure it doesn't happen everytime we update). I just went through and redirected the feeds to the subsites and manually processed each one, now all the mirrored blogs are up-to-date.
I'll use Admin menu editor to hide the Autoblog section from the subsite owners to give me master control of the whole thing. I'm guessing it wasn't stuck feeds at all and I'll be interested to see if the others in this thread can verify their feeds were redirected to the main site on the update.
I posted previously about and can confirm when you create a feed in a sub-site and then view that feed in the Network admin, the Network admin will section will show the feed incorrectly posting to the main site or blog as a default, the sub-site feed settings are not reflected. So if you process feeds from the network admin, you must edit each individual feed to correct the feed from going to the main site so that each feed goes to the sub site it was originally created to feed to as opposed to the default, which is to feed the main / root site.
From the network admin, you also cannot select all feeds and process via the select all check box as only the very last feed checked will process, you have to actually manually process each feed one by one from the network admin. Which is dangerous if you have not already corrected each feed one by one to feed the sub-site as originally intended instead of the default settings that will cause each feed to feed the main or root site. If you don't edit each feed in the network admin one by one and then process each feed, you will see each feed you process will actually end up publishing to the main / root site as that is what each feed defaults to despite it's settings via the admin screen on each sub-site.
I'm not sure if I'm missing something in how this works but I want to show the RSS feed as posts and allow the visitor to see the link to the original source along with a link to the original source. Is that possible? I've added 4 feeds and none of them are pulling the author and I want to give credit to the sources...
I set them up as excepts first and it was truncating the post with no way to see the rest of the post (no link to source). I switched it to allow all the content but it still is truncating.
Responses (52)
Member — 5th July 2011 #
In the Network Admin section, all of our sites with autoblog feeds are listed but if you go to to edit any individual feeds, they all have the root blog chosen in the "post blogs to" section instead of the correct blog such as ABC Blog Feed posting blogs to "abc.rootdomain.com.....
Also, if more than one blogs is checked in Network Admin section and the "process blogs" button is pushed nothing happens but if one blog is checked the "process blogs" button is checked, it will complete successfully.
We're also still seeing all feeds that processing times stuck in the past, how do we use the Auto Blog reset plugin? Does it have to be turned on forever or until a specific action occurs? Can this be used sitewide or do we have to manually turn this on for potentially hundreds of sites?
Member — 6th July 2011 #
We're still seeing all feeds stuck with the "Next Check" times being in the past after we manually "Reset" every single site using the reset plugin. Any help appreciated.
Member — 6th July 2011 #
Also, processing feeds from Network Admin section updates the last processed and next check time stamps but has no effect on the feeds. We're having to manually go to each individual site and manually process to get new content processed ....
Member — 6th July 2011 #
i am not having the "next check" issue, but I am having to manually process the feeds. The feeds are processing daily - but not on schedule - for example, the feeds that are set to process every thirty minutes - it's not happening. I too am having to go in and manually push the feeds along. I am running newswires off of my site - so it is important to me that the feeds process close in the manner that they are set up. That being said, I love the new interface. It's awesome.
Developer — 6th July 2011 #
Looking into this - hopefully get an update out as soon as I track down the issue.
@msaizan - how is the traffic to your site? Processing is reliant on site traffic unless you have set up a cron job to hit the site at regular intervals.
Member — 7th July 2011 #
Also noticing that the "Treat feed categories as" section will add all tags as a category if "categories" is chosen and add all tags as tags so it looks like the section should be called "Treat feed tags as" based on the behavior ....
Developer — 7th July 2011 #
RSS only has categories in it's format spec, so it's a case of treating them all as categories or all as tags ( wordpress ouptuts all categories and tags in RSS as categories )
Member — 7th July 2011 #
Gotcha, it's just that when you say "categories" many people aren't realizing that you are also talking about tags and aren't aware of what you just explained. I thought we were going to be adding categories as a tag by choosing "tags", so we chose to treat categories to be categories to "prevent them from being treated / added as a tag". This resulted in the last thing we want to occur, all tags being added to the post as a category, which we want to prevent since multiple categories equals multiple URL's pointing to same article which is bad for SEO purposes.
Member — 8th July 2011 #
hmmm...that's interesting. I didn't realize that the processing was traffic specific. well it's a new site but I have consistent traffic. still..sounds like i need to set up a cron job. that's the last thing I would have hoped you would say i needed to do! ugh. Are you available for hire or can you recommend someone?
Member — 8th July 2011 #
i have one other issue. I don't know if this has anything to do with the plugin itself...but...with google rss feeds - if it's a keyword feed...like "new orleans", for example, this is what the titles look like:
<b>New Orleans<b> Hornets win again
What's Next for the city of <b> New Orleans <b>
The code doesn't display on front side of the post or page - but it does show up in the website's burned feeds (the feeds that people subscribe to through a feed service like Feedburner) and the code displays in a twitter stream. Is there any automated thing that can happen so that the code is stripped out? For one project we were setting the posts to "pending review" and then hand removing the code, but this is not possible in this project - This is a U.S. Gulf Coast portal with multiple major cities as topics (sub sites) and the idea is for up to the minute streaming news - too many posts.
Member — 8th July 2011 #
"Processing is reliant on site traffic unless you have set up a cron job to hit the site at regular intervals. "
I'm confused, if you choose to process a feed hourly, it is dependent on traffic to process hourly? Think I'm misunderstanding this.
Also, we just don't have an hour or two every day to manually process hundreds of feeds one by one, it is VERY time consuming. If we revert back to an older version of the plugin will this create issues when we come back to the latest version once a working version is out given the "reset" that was already done via the "reset" plugin? Just wondering if we might create more issues by going back to an older version for a while.
Member — 8th July 2011 #
I concur with Tracy. Since there is an option to set the feeds to various intervals, I am not understanding the "traffic dependent aspect of things. Because why have an option to set a feed to an interval at all if the processing is traffic dependent? the other thing is... autoblog is actually part of my traffic strategy - because the constant influx of news is what's indexing me (and quickly too) and driving traffic to the site - and as I have mentioned... the idea is for the news to stream consistently - since these are newswires the posts need to be current. so as it stands right now i am having to go in on the hour and push the feeds manually - and it IS time consuming - and these are just a few feeds - 40 or so...i have been beta testing with various cities - meaning - I haven't even gotten all the newswires up yet! I don't want to have to go back to the older version though - the new interface is jam up and jelly tight and it really works for me to be able to build and segregate the feeds inside the subsite's admin panels - and then to have it added to a list inside network admin. It's a great feature.
Twitter plugin - what we have right now is akin to Blackbird Pie - looks like you can embed one twitter pie in a post? is that how this works. What I would like to have is a way to have a twitter stream - hashtag or keyword search "new orleans" stream the same way the regular feed posts are set up.
Member — 8th July 2011 #
just so you know - i have tried various autoblogging plugins - free and premium - WPMU dev autoblog is the best of the best. It's a great plugin and I am very interested in its ongoing development.
Developer — 8th July 2011 #
A wordpress plugin is reliant on wordpress. Autoblog processes feeds by hooking into an action within wordpress (the init) then checking its own to timestamp to see if it needs to do anything.
If your website doesn't get any traffic, then wordpress isn't loaded, so it can't fire the init action, so autoblog can't run, so can't check it's timestamp, so can't process feeds. If your site is never loaded, then autoblog is never loaded and feeds are never parsed.
Now, that's an extreme case, but if you set your autoblog processing to every 30 minutes, and your site only gets one visitor an hour, then your feeds are only going to get processed when that visitor turns up, because that is the only time wordpress is loaded.
Now, you can enforce a 30 min process, if you think your site isn't getting, or going to consistently get a visitor every 30 mins, then setting up a server cron job to hit a page on your site every 30mins or less then you are guaranteed that visit, even though it is your own visit.
Re:paused threads - got a more "aggressive" site wide reset and check add-on to come. Going to try to get the package zipped tonight and uploaded.
Member — 8th July 2011 #
so what would the command be for the cron?
Member — 8th July 2011 #
i am on top of the cron job. doing it as we speak.
Member — 8th July 2011 #
ok. i just set up a cron job for the feeds to process every thirty minutes - miraculously got through it without breaking my site! anyway... i feel much better about this set up. thanks for the advice on that Barry.
Member — 11th July 2011 #
nope. not working.
wget -O /dev/null http://mydomainname.com/wp-content/plugins/autoblog/autoblog-cron.php
i think i am supposed to enter a line key? don't know where to find that.
Member — 11th July 2011 #
I think the point he was making is that cron can run if you don't have at least one visitor to load WP, which shouldn't be an issue for most people. In this case even when cron is running, the plugin is broken, so creating a cron job will not do the trick unfortunately.... if I'm understanding this correctly.
Developer — 11th July 2011 #
Msaizan - why are you calling that php file? You should be calling a normal page on your site (e.g. Your homepage ) not sure where you got that php file from, but if you can let me know I'll get the docs changed ASAP.
Member — 12th July 2011 #
Not sure if it made it into the beta, but is their support for image handling in this version? I'd love to switch over to this, but image handling is important. Autoblogged does pretty well with that if you need ideas for a feature set (it downloads the image to your server, so that autoblog posts aren't hotlinking, creates thumbs, etc)
Developer — 12th July 2011 #
@ymousley - the addons/plugins functionality made it to this version - which now means we can add in extra functionality via add-ons/plugins - Images and embeds are two of the big bits I want to make available for it so they'll be coming, but will need this version+ in order to be usable.
Member — 13th July 2011 #
Barry - there is such no file. mistake on my end. But i am tracking you on calling a normal page on my site. That being said, Tracy is suggesting that a cron job won't work right now. Can you confirm this?
margaret
Developer — 13th July 2011 #
A Cron hitting your homepage is exactly the same as a user hitting your home page, so if your feeds process when you hit the site, then the cron will work just fine. Tracy is having issues with his feeds being stuck or paused (which is tricky to work out the reasons - hence a delay in getting a full and complete fix out for his issue) which is different.
Member — 13th July 2011 #
my feeds aren't processing either - even with traffic - because i am hitting every site at least once or twice myself. the feeds appear to be stuck or paused. I am having to push them manually. it's cool. i can hang with that til you get a fix - but just wanted to let you know.
margaret
Developer — 16th July 2011 #
Unstickying ready for new release sticky
Member — 19th July 2011 #
I've got a lot of the same issues with 3.5.1
Feeds are not processing. All of the automated processing attempts were returning this notice on the debug list: Notice: Processing stopped due to 3 second timeout.
The list is fairly long and on schedule, the processes just time out. Doing a bulk process of all my feeds also fails to work. The page reloads and reports they were processed, but the last process time doesn't happen and the process times out. The only way to get them to process is a manual, individual process. I only have 10 feeds so it's not that problematic. I'm just having to log in each day to do it.
Website gets regular traffic throughout the day so I know that is not the problem.
Developer — 19th July 2011 #
The 3 second timeout is there for the safety of your server :) You can increase it, but it may make your site seem less responsive (line 487 of autoblogprocess.php).
Can you try disabling a few of your feeds and see if you can work out which is the slowest and slowing the processing down?
Member — 19th July 2011 #
Changed the timeout limit to 6 seconds for now. I also changed the updating to something more frequent so I can troubleshoot this faster.
I've also manually processed each one again. Going to to let it run before I disable them and check them individually and see what happens with the new settings.
With the 6 second setting, the website didn't seem to slow down at all. Will report back when I learn more.
Member — 21st July 2011 #
I was having same issue of feed not updating. I changed to 6 seconds and same issue. I commented out the break; and the page loaded in about 1 second with the updated feed.
if (time() > $timestart + $timelimit) {
if($this->debug) {
// time out
$this->errors[] = __('Notice: Processing stopped due to ' . $timelimit . ' second timeout.','autoblog');
}
<strike> //break;</strike>
}
Member — 21st July 2011 #
I deleted this post as it was written poorly and made it unclear...
Member — 21st July 2011 #
@elmirage001 ...are your feeds automatically processing now? or are you still having to push them manually? it sounds like you were having problems manually processing the feeds? reason I am asking is because i want to know if this is going to solve the problem of the feeds being stuck or paused -which is the situation that i have got. i have no problem manually processing the feeds but they are not automating at this juncture.
Member — 21st July 2011 #
ok. our posts crossed - i see that commenting out the break didn't work.
Member — 21st July 2011 #
Hello msaizan!
You're still up too! I've been reading your posts.
Sorry my post was not clear. It's the automatic processing. You have to edit:
content/plugins/autoblog/autoblogincludes/classes/autoblogprocess.php
Line 505 is the --> break;
Try changing it to --> //break; and see if you feeds automatically process. When you're done testing change it back to --> break; as I don't know at this point how much load it will put on the server. Hopefully this will be a clue for Barry so he can look at all his timing code.
Off to bed for me.
Have a great night!
Paul
Member — 21st July 2011 #
Commenting out the break DID WORK :-)
Night!
Paul
Member — 21st July 2011 #
I can report that setting the timeout to 6 seconds still did not work. Am commenting out the break as per the above instructions now. Will report back with a confirmation or fail.
Member — 21st July 2011 #
it didn't work for me either. changed the code at 2:00 am - six sec timer and commented out the break... as of 10:00 am the feeds are still paused. no change.
Member — 22nd July 2011 #
Hello Everyone,
I just did a test and mine worked. I tested with my own non-wordpress rss feed that I create and upload to one of my other sites.
Here is what I did.
1. Changed break; to //break;
2. My "Process Feeds" is set to "every 30 minutes"
3. I have debug On
4. I added an entry to my rss feed.
5. Loaded my page and the new entry did not show. (not 30 minutes yet).
6. Went to dinner, came back and loaded page and the new entry was there.
7. My timeout is set to the default 3 seconds
My debug info.
18:47 says "No new entries..." but the new entry was there.
16:54 was before the 30 minutes.
2011-07-21 at 18:47
• Notice: Processing stopped due to 3 second timeout.
• Notice: No new entries in feed - http://www.meteorite.com/rss/meteorite-news.xml
2011-07-21 at 16:54
• Notice: Processing stopped due to 3 second timeout.
• Notice: No new entries in feed - http://www.meteorite.com/rss/meteorite-news.xml
I just added a new post to the rss feed and it does not show yet on my Autoblog page. I'll check in 30+ minutes and let you know if it shows or now.
Member — 22nd July 2011 #
Just clicked on the Autoblog page as it's been > 30 minutes and the new rss post is there so it's working for me...
Sales & Support Lead — 22nd July 2011 #
Hiya elmirage001,
Glad it's working for ya :)
In the future, feel free to start a new thread as these older ones with loads of posts tend to get overlooked.
Thanks!
Member — 22nd July 2011 #
Mason we're in the middle of testing for an issue with this plugin. These aren't new conversations - it's a cohesive thread about a particular issue. Some of us are having stuck/paused threads. Thoughts are If we move the conversation to a new thread it's going to confuse the issue even more.
Sales & Support Lead — 22nd July 2011 #
Ok, my apologies, carry on ;)
Member — 22nd July 2011 #
stuck/paused FEEDS...not threads! tanks.
Member — 22nd July 2011 #
Ha Ha Ha! This plugin is so buggered!
I don't think it is stuck, I think it is importing the posts to the wrong place!
I just discovered that it is importing posts, but not to the blogs. It is importing them to my main site!
I only just realized this because I saw in my "Right Now" widget that I've 88 posts there, but I don't do any blogging on my main site. Clicking through to the posts index in the dashboard I discovered all the missing blog posts from various feeds.
Can each of you check your posts on your main site to see if you are getting the same behavior?
What the plugin needs in the edit feed page is a place to input the target blog for the feed. I think the previous version had a auto-generated drop down menu of all the blogs on the network to choose the target. I just noticed this one doesn't have that.
Developer — 22nd July 2011 #
Thanks for all the input - i'll go through and see if i can follow it all :)
It has that, in the network admin area feed editing form, no?
Member — 22nd July 2011 #
Aha, that might be the rub!
It does appear in the network admin area as you said. But the same feed editing pages are accessible from anywhere on the network. If you aren't paying close attention, you will be setting it up elsewhere, and it appears that it defaults to the main site since the main site is getting all the feeds. At least, I didn't have the problem until I updated to 3.5.1, which apparently caused all the feeds to default automatically to the main site. I'm seeing now that all of them are directed to the main site.
Perhaps a better network control option to hide the autoblog menu on all the subsites (including the main site's admin) and letting it be available in the Network Admin. This may not be a solution for everyone (some folks might like their bloggers having control over these mirrors), but it works my use case.
Developer — 22nd July 2011 #
If you create the feed in a sub-site - it will default to posting to that sub-site. If you create it in network admin, it will allow you to specify which sub-site to post it to.
That used to be the case, but a lot of people want it available for single WP, and available to their users on their sites as well so it had to change i'm afraid.
Member — 22nd July 2011 #
That seems to make sense. Given that it was the update itself that redirected the feeds to the main site, there really doesn't seem much to worry about then (except for maybe making sure it doesn't happen everytime we update). I just went through and redirected the feeds to the subsites and manually processed each one, now all the mirrored blogs are up-to-date.
I'll use Admin menu editor to hide the Autoblog section from the subsite owners to give me master control of the whole thing. I'm guessing it wasn't stuck feeds at all and I'll be interested to see if the others in this thread can verify their feeds were redirected to the main site on the update.
Member — 22nd July 2011 #
I posted previously about and can confirm when you create a feed in a sub-site and then view that feed in the Network admin, the Network admin will section will show the feed incorrectly posting to the main site or blog as a default, the sub-site feed settings are not reflected. So if you process feeds from the network admin, you must edit each individual feed to correct the feed from going to the main site so that each feed goes to the sub site it was originally created to feed to as opposed to the default, which is to feed the main / root site.
From the network admin, you also cannot select all feeds and process via the select all check box as only the very last feed checked will process, you have to actually manually process each feed one by one from the network admin. Which is dangerous if you have not already corrected each feed one by one to feed the sub-site as originally intended instead of the default settings that will cause each feed to feed the main or root site. If you don't edit each feed in the network admin one by one and then process each feed, you will see each feed you process will actually end up publishing to the main / root site as that is what each feed defaults to despite it's settings via the admin screen on each sub-site.
Member — 1st November 2011 #
I'm not sure if I'm missing something in how this works but I want to show the RSS feed as posts and allow the visitor to see the link to the original source along with a link to the original source. Is that possible? I've added 4 feeds and none of them are pulling the author and I want to give credit to the sources...
I set them up as excepts first and it was truncating the post with no way to see the rest of the post (no link to source). I switched it to allow all the content but it still is truncating.
Developer — 1st November 2011 #
@ice3studios - can you update to the latest version? Version 3.5.1 is quite an old one now.
Member — 7th November 2011 #
@Barry - sorry, I am using 3.6.1. Didn't realize I posted in an older thread.
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