kieranbarnes

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.

But for now, here is a fix for the faulty cron.php bundled with 1.0pre5

<?php
 
require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../../../wp-config.php');
 
nocache_headers();
 
// if uninstalled, let's not do anything
if(! get_option('wpo_version')) {
  echo "Not installed\n";
  exit();
}
// check password
if(isset($argv['1']) &amp;&amp; $argv['1'] == get_option('wpo_croncode')) {
	require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wpomatic.php' );
	echo "Running cron\n";
	$wpomatic-&gt;runCron();
}
else {
	$wpomatic-&gt;log('Warning! cron.php was called with the wrong password or without one!');
	echo "Warning! cron.php was called with the wrong password or without one!";
	exit();
}
?>

* Note, this will only work from a local cron, not WebCron.

Add this to your cron

*/20 * * * * php /PATH_TO_FILE/cron.php b1591282

You can find the PATH_TO_FILE in Settings -> WP-o-Matic -> Options

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