FAQ & TIPS
Installation instructions
- After Paypal process and user registration, go to Download Area
- Download the last version archive (zip) file.
- Go to WordPress Back-End (http://yourdomain/wp-admin) and click on Plugins menu on left.
- You must have installed and activated WPeMatico free plugin.
- On a screen you’ll see find the Add New button on a top and click it.
- Under Install Plugins click on Upload link.
- Browse a file you downloaded on a first step and click Install Now.
- If your system works properly and you have permissions to write files on server, you’ll see the next messages:
- Unpacking the package…
- Installing the plugin…
- Plugin installed successfully.
- If plugin installed successfully, just click on Activate Plugin link.
FREQUENT ASKED QUESTIONS
I have this plugin installed and activated. What must I do now ?
OK, now you have in woprdpress admin a new area below posts called WPeMatico.
At settings, setup configuration items.
At Campaigns you must add one, in there add one or few feeds with options you choose. You can use a campaign for grouping feeds for a category or another custom topic that you want.
1. What is or Why appear the message Clear campaign on a campaign in campaign list?
1. This thing about “Clear campaign” occur when the campaign being executed. First time may be normal but If you get ”Clear Campaign” too many times is because there are too many feeds on campaign, too many items per fetch or too many campaigns at same time on cron… Also can be because the feed are wrong or down… If the process has an error like PHP timeout or feed too long or source feed is down… or something like that, the campaign is not cleared and the message “Clear campaign” remain until you click on it as an attention call that something is not going well. Also simplepie library used on plugin for get feeds has an article about this: http://simplepie.org/
2. The campaign is not getting any {content} from the RSS.
2.May be the feed field are wrong. Although the check with the plugin, is not giving error, you must check the feed link on a feed reader. (Firefox has one inside).
3. Can the PRO version be used on multiple sites?
3. if you mean with the licence, yes, don’t have any problem.
4. Use Date of feed post is not working for me?
4. For source date feature take in mind the conditions:
How it works: To avoid incoherent dates due to lousy setup feeds, WPeMatico will use the feed date only if these conditions are met:
- The feed item date is not too far in the past (specifically, as much time as the campaign frequency).
- The fetched feed item date is not in the future.
If you click “Run Now”, following times, then appear that not work, but with cron is working well.
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5. This feature works with Permalink() method of WordPress, change the link of the post to source link, but only if the post was added with WPeMatico. If you aren’t using the function “permalink()” on your template, this feature has no effect for you.
6. ”How can import a list of feeds into a campaign at once ?6. This feature must be enabled on Settings page and works only on PRO version. See this link for more details: http://www.wpematico.com/import-list-feeds-campaign/
7. Is there a way to export the campaigns so i can upload them to a different site?
As campaigns are a WordPress custom post type you can try exporting all of them from WordPress’s export on tools menú 
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Before I upadate to Pro, can you tell me how well the attempt to Get Full Content option works? It’s really the main reason I’d by the full version and the word “attempt” in front of it makes me think it doesn’t necessarily work that well.
One feature you might consider if possible is to have an expiration date on posts and images that are downloaded. If someone has a large aggregate an older posts aren’t all that necessary, we could have them automatically self-destruct after so much time or after so many more recent feeds were downloaded.
Hi, well, the word attempt are there because depends of the code of source site that works well with the plugin.
If you want to know if works with some site, send me the feeds that you want to try and I’ll test it and I’ll send you the results.
The posts are added by this plugin to wordpress database as normal posts. Then you can find some plugin on wordpress repository for delete old posts and you have your feature for free
Is there any way that I can create only an excerpt post to the single page from an incoming feed? I am authorized to create excerpts with a “see more” permalink but I can’t put full content on the single page.
You can get it editing your theme: replace the_content() with the_excerpt()
The problem with editing the theme with excerpt is it cuts out out all of wpematico’s post template supported tags including the original source permalinks. Is there any editing I can make in the plug-in editor to make all the posts excerpts AND keep the valid tags like permalinks?
If I buy the pro version is it possible to remove “Powered by WPeMatico” that appears below every post?
Thanks
Yes, also on free version, but I appreciate if you buy ;)
OK, how do I remove it?
you have the option on WPeMatico Settings page. (Right below)
Hello
I have this problem and I can’t access in my wp-admin… some body can help me?
Fatal error: Undefined class constant ‘TEXTDOMAIN’ in /home/vfmpfqp/public_html/bionotizie.com/wp-content/plugins/wpematico/app/functions.php on line 23
i test with so much rss feed but i alwas get whan i sart posting …
2012-12-14 14:03.02: [WARNING] Invalid argument supplied for foreach()
2012-12-14 14:03.02: [WARNING] Invalid argument supplied for foreach()
Hi, it is just a Warning because you have the tags field empty, but works anyway. right?
no its the same whan i enter tags
Campaign fetched in 0 sec. Processed Posts: 0
it post nothing i test different feed urls …
please send to my mail a log of a campaign fetched, then I can see the details
What should i put for feed?
Very useful plugin, thank you!
I noticed that posts are correctly imported from rss feed, but tags are not saved from those i put in campaign configuration…
Nicola
I would like just the title of the fetched news stories to show up. Similar to Drudgereport.com. Is this possible?
I figured it out.
Hello There, I think this is a very usefull plugin, but today I have moved my hosting and active this plugin again but have eror “could not be parsed. (SimplePie said: cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 10000 milliseconds with 0 bytes received)”
Can you help me??
thanks
Hi Etruel
I’m receiving the following messages, what do I need to change in order to make this work. Is the issue on the server the feed is being pulled from? or is it the site the plugin is posting to? Thanks
[WARNING] file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration
2013-03-07 13:59.54: [WARNING] file_get_contents(http://www.linkedlocalnetwork.com/blog/2012/12/14/restore-us-to-sanity-the-road-to-recovery/) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found
Hi Fred
This is something on your server config.
You must allow_url_fopen on your php config
allow_url_fopen = On
needs to be set in php.ini due to this error.
Hi Etruel
So I need to add that line to the php.ini file of the server that is utilizing wpematico, correct? Thanks for the quick response
Hello,
I love this plugins and all it’s options, just what I was looking for! I have 15 campaigns, with one feed each (to set different author and categories per feed). When I run manually everything works fine, but the cronjobs doesnt seem to be working correctly. Right now I have every campaign on Any and send a log e-mail to laura@nieuweaarde.nu. I only get the emails for one campaign. In the administration I can see that some campaigns have been running for many seconds and others have a Next Run date in the past.
What is going wrong? I’m thinking about buying the pro version, but I want to make sure everything will work.
Regards, Laura
Hi Laura.
its seems to be that you are having php timeouts. May be you can reduce qty of post fetched every time or try some settings to reduce time of running campaign
Thank you, I’ve managed to schedule the campaigns in such a way that it worked.
p.s. in some of my log files it says:
[WARNING] ini_get() expects exactly 1 parameter, 2 given
What can I do about this warning?
just ignore
Is there a way to export the campaign feeds so i can upload them to a different site?
Hi Fred.
As campaigns are a WordPress custom post type you can try exporting all of them from WordPress’s export on tools menú
No question that WPeMatico is a great plugin even though that I am using the free edition. The recent update to 1.1.1 was great and solved new problems that aroused lately.
On the other hand, I have a problem posting Arabic language feeds as they post as question marks “??????? ????”, would there anyway to solve this problem?
Suggestion maybe like adding the possibility to ad header tags for language or coding or any other way to make it.
This would even make it greater.
Thanks,
I keep getting Filtering duplicated posts. but there has not been one post made yet. How can I disable filtering?
Thanks,
JH
I found del hash but I do not think it will be the solution I want to disable dup filtering all together,
This is because your feed may has an empty link first then take as duplicated post.
I’ll add the option for allow duplicates in next release
Thank you for the very prompt reply. I will be looking forward to the new release.
Cheers!
Hello,
I have the following problem:
WPeMatico 1.1.2 and WPeMatico PRO 1.1 is installed.
When I add a new campaign and would like to read data from an RSS feed, I get the following error message:
[WARNING] get_class () expects parameter 1 to be object, string given
Until recently I was able to add new campaigns without any problems.
Is there a solution?
Thank you very much
Alois
Hi again,
addendum:
The following RSS feed to make the problems
http://feeds.feedburner.com/feedburner/owwY
Greetings
Alois
Suddenly my website is offline! I get this error:
PHP Fatal error: Undefined class constant ‘TEXTDOMAIN’ in /…/httpdocs/nieuweaarde.nu/wp-content/plugins/wpematico/app/functions.php on line 23
What to do? I can’t access admin and disabling the plugins in the database didnt work..
I’m interested in buying the pro option simply because I need to filter the feed. I want it to link to backstage castings feed, but to only pull auditions that call for minority actors. So I would you keywords like, Asian or Latina for instance. Is there a way to test this out before purchasing?
Thanks!
sorry but Are you sure that FREE version don’t have what you need ?
It seems that you can not filter w/the FREE version. Am I wrong? If so where can I find instructions for this?
Thanks
OK, I misunderstood before. You are right.
The feature came with PRO version.
I just publish a screenshot for you can see: http://www.wpematico.com/screenshot-pro-features-campaign/
Also If you stil want, you can send me a RSS- feed for test with, a couple of words to filter, and after fetch, I can show you the results
Thank you! The screenshot was really helpful. Here is the RSS feed (below).
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Filter words for Must contain (in content):
Asian, Latina/o, Hispanic, Black/African-American, Ethnic
This is much appreciated!
Great-thank you!
(Aprox.) Since the new version I often get 500 errors on my website. After disabling the wpematico plugin everything works fine. I got this problems since a week or two now. Anybody else having problems? I checked my error log and this error keeps coming up;
PHP Fatal error: Undefined class constant ‘TEXTDOMAIN’ in /xx/httpdocs/nieuweaarde.nu/wp-content/plugins/wpematico/app/functions.php on line 23
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘/usr/lib64/php/modules/apc.so’ – /usr/lib64/php/modules/apc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
Hi, I don’t know why can be this. (May be a php library don’t loaded ’apc.so’ )
try deleting plugin FROM FTP (not from WP or you loose your campaigns).
go to plugins page on your WP and install again
Activate it
If you use PRO version follow the Installation instruction on http://www.wpematico.com/faq/
Ok thanks, I’ll try!
Hi Author, I’m having a problem fetching images (in the post content) from feed. The title of the post is fetched correctly and creates a new post on my site. However, the image posts (with only one image in the content) doesn’t seem to be fetched properly.
I have checked the media library and found the file wasn’t uploaded either. Only a reference was created.
I’m using ipage for my hosting.
Any suggestions?
Just to add: I’ve tested in localhost scenario and worked fine. Could anyone please suggest what should I do at my web host side? BTW I’m using iPage. Many thanks.
HI,
check in php settings on your server: (may be php.ini file)
allow_url_fopen must be activated
; Whether to allow the treatment of URLs (like http:// or ftp://) as files.
allow_url_fopen = On
Thanks etruel for your suggestion. I will have a pay around and see what happens. Once again, the plugin is great. Excellent job.
Hi, sorry for being a little buggy may be! I’ve tried what you suggested and it worked great now.
Just a tinsy problem, I’m not getting the featured/thumbnail image on the front page. Since you mentioed earlier that the wpematico fetched posts are published as Custom Post types, any suggestion on how to get the featured image automatically set?
Cheers.
do you have checked on WPeMatico settings all checkboxes about cache images, attach to posts and make featured first image ?
BTW if you want pay support, you can complete the form on the left on http://www.netmdp.com/wpematico/
Cheers
I have checked all of them. They’re all set correctly. I’ve noticed that the fetched image is downloaded/uploaded in the ‘wp-content/uploads’ directory but doesn’t show up in ‘wp-admin>media>library’ section.
I’ve played with file permission on the web host side but doesn’t work. Downloaded a plugin named ‘Media tools’ which manually fetches the images and populate the media library section and also adds featured image. But that is only when I manually run the plugin.
If you know of any solution, please help. I really appreciate your time and support. I’m not a big site owner, so I could only donate some bucks towards your project.
I need to login in your site and see the theme you are using.
contact me through form
How would I include the source link in the body and not the title?
Can i do this in the “Post Template” option somehow when setting up the campaign?
Is there some code I can put in here to make the source link appear in the body of the posts instead on the title?
I just want to use this to make abstracts and to link to articles of interest. I want the link in the post for this. Anyone know how this can be done?
John
Hi, got pro version,
1.How to make wpematico feched only “big image”?? small images like icon will be ignored.
2. Is it possible for wpematico to feched first paragraph only? (first or two,three paragraph just like autoblogged?
The reason I asked this,I want wpematico do like this on custom template :
{title}
{image}
{excerpt}
{permalink}
As you can see I added {excerpt} ? can you do that? and How??
HI All, im using Ipin template and wpematico, actually the images comes without the ALT TAG which is very important for SEO purpose. To do add the Alt Tag and gives the post title as value you must modify post-template file. here you can find how https://plus.google.com/u/0/106066919411778782981/posts
hoping helps
Hi Max, I found using ‘SEO Friendly Images’ WP plugin works better. Cheers.
its up to you Imran, i prefer to add 1 line code instead load another plugin
Any particular reason why some of the feed-to-post would be posted twice from the same feed/campaign? (not all of them are duplicating, may be 2 out of 10 feed contents fetched)!
Is there a tag I can use to post videos from an RSS feed in the free version or do I need to upgrade to the PRO? I’m pulling the {title}, {content}, and source {permalink} already in the custom post field… Some of the posts have video, however, all I’m getting is a snapshot of the video…. I’d like to have the video included in the posts… Thanks…
Hi, quasarn01,
try to activate “skip wordpress filters” first on settings (if you haven’t active) and then on compaign.
Etruel, in he Free version it doesn’t allow you to activate/deactivate filters in the settings. And, there is no option on each campaign to activate/deactivate filter… Maybe I’m missing something then…
My bad… I found it on settings, but, not on individual campaigns…
you must activate on Setting, then shows on campaign
Activated on settings and campaigns but still won’t pull in videos from rss feeds, only snapshots… I’ll look around and see if there is something in the code that might be hindering it…
John, put this in your custom field tags wherever you want the link to the source to be shown… Instead of {permalink} put this —-> <a target=”_blank” href=”{permalink}”><b>Read the rest of this syndicated article here.</b></a>
It will put a clickable link there…
Add New Campaign when I clicking to button publish error: ERROR: 1
How can I fix?
I have WpeMatico Free version and I’m having fits trying to set the featured image. I want my posts to have only the image that comes through the feed and then I want that image to also be the featured image on the slider that I have on the post page (home)… What I get is far different. I either can get the original post image in the post with no image in the slider, or, I get the image in the slider and two duplicate images in the same post… Can’t seem to get the duplicat image to go away no matter how I adjust the settings… Anybody have any ideas as to how to get this done…?