How can I get the featured post thumbnail from posts that are imported using the Autoblog plugin? Presently, no combination of settings within the plugin seems to enable this. Thank you!
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Support Kangaroo
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Greetings artcomp123,
I received your email and today I dug into this with two different lead developers to see what it would take to make this happen.
One approach would be as follows:
1) Auto-Blog imports articles
2) custom code then goes through each article, and fetches its HTML
3) custom code digs through all the tags until it reaches OG image meta
4) when and if it does, it sets it as the post thumbnail
and more:
To map OpenGraph image tags as post thumbnails. Plus, there are some possible difficulties to overcome - the custom code would have to use some sort of HTML parser, there's a decent one we use in Status/Activity Plus that could be handy although, since it's just one tag, a regex match might work too.
This certainly falls heavily into the realm of custom coding as the developers have confirmed in our chats today.
You could see if there's a developer available at wpmu jobs who could get onto it right this minute
You could also make a feature request too as a possibility, make plugin and feature requests here: http://wpmudev.uservoice.com/
The more popular a request is and the more votes it gets, the more likely it will be considered.
It might have already been suggested. It is worth a quick search to add your votes before submitting a new suggestion.
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Hi @playhays, at first I was using a parser, and setting that as thumb, which works globally, but trips if there are no images in the feed for a post. But this was ultimately overkill, and if you *know* there will be at least one image in a post, you can just internally set the thumb within the loop, almost exactly like this plugin:
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Hi @playhays, at first I was using a parser, and setting that as thumb, which works globally, but trips if there are no images in the feed for a post. But this was ultimately overkill, and if you *know* there will be at least one image in a post, you can just internally set the thumb within the loop, almost exactly like this plugin:
(Slightly different for custom post types,
but you can just append with a get_the_terms (); in many cases)
How do I internally set the thumb within the loop? "(Slightly different for custom post types,
but you can just append with a get_the_terms (); in many cases)"
I am just using posts, but I don't understand what you mean here.
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Support Kangaroo (joined March 2011) Likes (0)
Greetings artcomp123,
Thank you for this great question.
Does the feed you are using/importing include images within it?
What is the RSS feed URL?
Please advise.
Cheers, Joe
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Hey there.
We haven't heard anything form you in a short while so I thought I would check in to see how things are going here.
If you need more help then please feel free to reopen this thread or create a new one.
Take care and have a fantastic day!
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My apologies for the delay, I don't get email notifications of replies for some reason.
Yes each post has a featured wp thumb. However, I'm using the feedburner feed instead of the wordpress feed at example.com/feed/
Incidentally, Autoblog is also not processing any new posts for several days now.
How can I submit url / wordpress info without it being public on this forum? Thank you!
Support Kangaroo (joined March 2011) Likes (0)
Greetings artcomp123,
Starting at the top of course is checking out the feed itself.
You can send details to aecnu (at) incsub.com and be sure to include a copy of this tickets URL within:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/autoblog-how-to-import-featured-thumbnail
Look forward to taking a peek.
Please advise.
Cheers, Joe
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Hi Joe,
Email sent. Thanks!
Support Kangaroo (joined March 2011) Likes (0)
Greetings artcomp123,
I received your email and today I dug into this with two different lead developers to see what it would take to make this happen.
One approach would be as follows:
1) Auto-Blog imports articles
2) custom code then goes through each article, and fetches its HTML
3) custom code digs through all the tags until it reaches OG image meta
4) when and if it does, it sets it as the post thumbnail
and more:
To map OpenGraph image tags as post thumbnails. Plus, there are some possible difficulties to overcome - the custom code would have to use some sort of HTML parser, there's a decent one we use in Status/Activity Plus that could be handy although, since it's just one tag, a regex match might work too.
This certainly falls heavily into the realm of custom coding as the developers have confirmed in our chats today.
You could see if there's a developer available at wpmu jobs who could get onto it right this minute
You could also make a feature request too as a possibility, make plugin and feature requests here:
http://wpmudev.uservoice.com/
The more popular a request is and the more votes it gets, the more likely it will be considered.
It might have already been suggested. It is worth a quick search to add your votes before submitting a new suggestion.
Thank you for being a WPMU Dev member!
Cheers, Joe :-)
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Yikes! I keep forgetting to update threads. You're suggestion to use the code in comments plus to map it was great, worked very well. Thanks you!
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@artcomp123, how did you get the images to import?
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Hi @playhays, at first I was using a parser, and setting that as thumb, which works globally, but trips if there are no images in the feed for a post. But this was ultimately overkill, and if you *know* there will be at least one image in a post, you can just internally set the thumb within the loop, almost exactly like this plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/auto-post-thumbnail/
to run after the Autoblog plugin does its' magic.
(Slightly different for custom post types,
but you can just append with a get_the_terms (); in many cases)
Support Kangaroo (joined March 2011) Likes (0)
Greetings playhays,
This is automated using the add-on feature in Autoblog itself.
While logged into the admin dashboard go to Autoblog --> Add-ons --> Import images --> activate
Imports any images in a post to the media library and attaches them to the imported post.
Cheers, Joe
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Hi @playhays, at first I was using a parser, and setting that as thumb, which works globally, but trips if there are no images in the feed for a post. But this was ultimately overkill, and if you *know* there will be at least one image in a post, you can just internally set the thumb within the loop, almost exactly like this plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/auto-post-thumbnail/
to run after the Autoblog plugin does its' magic.
(Slightly different for custom post types,
but you can just append with a get_the_terms (); in many cases)
How do I internally set the thumb within the loop? "(Slightly different for custom post types,
but you can just append with a get_the_terms (); in many cases)"
I am just using posts, but I don't understand what you mean here.
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