WP-O-Matic Bug Fixes Round Up
I've run into quite a few issues in the latest 1.0RC3-7 release of WP-O-Matic. Here's a round up of the bug fixes and addons you need to actually this potentially useful product useful!
Also, it includes a well known MySQL bug fix.
Wordpress WP-O-Matic Duplicate Posts Fix
Got a problem with WP-O-Matic creating duplicate posts? Or just Wordpress in general. Me too.
I wrote a script to run on a regular basis so sort this problem out.
WP-o-Matic Upgrade Fix
So I rolled out some WP-o-Matic upgrades recently. I was all excited that version 1.0RC3-7 had been released. One upgrade went fine, one freaked out - it would run the cron fine, an improvement on the previous version, but it wouldn't process campaigns. The problem turns out to be the getCampaigns function in wpomatic.php
WP-O-Matic Cron Hangs
Does your WP-O-Matic hang sometimes when processing feeds? It's probably trying to a ping back to the original post. Chances are you don't even want it pinging back, depending on the purpose of your blog.
Crawl Rate Tracker Plugin for Wordpress25
Patrick Altoft has updated the Crawl Rate Tracker Plugin for Wordpress 2.5. A previous post of mine documents the plugin has major issues creating its database table on Wordpress 2.5, unfortunately, it would report success causing many sites to throw some major, undetectable errors.
I'm glad to see it's been updated eventually!
WP-o-Matic fix for Wordpress 2.5
WP-o-Matic makes autoblogging a easy by automatically creating posts from the RSS/Atom feeds you give it. Unfortunately, the latest release doesn't work very well, by itself or on Wordpress 2.5. Watch out for my post on fixing Wordpress 2.5 issues.
Wordpress Suicide
Wordpress Suicide is a fun, yet really useful plugin. I had a requirement to clean out a WP 2.5 blog because a client had really screwed up with the taxonomy directly in the database. I didn't want to erase the entire blog because that'd be too easy. I stumbled over Wordpress Suicide and had great fun using it. It makes clearing a blog of all it's life quite enjoyable!
Wordpress Secret Key & Cookie Strength
There is a little known feature in Wordpress 2.5 called "Secret Key". If you're upgrading from a previous version you probably won't even know this feature exists as it only appears in clean installs where you have a brand new wp-config.php.
Crawl Rate Tracker and Wordpress 2.5 Manual Fix
A quick update on people that need the Crawl Rate Tracker to work with Wordpress 2.5 - just create the table manually.