RSS Feed Sources

• Added support for dozens more RSS modules.
• Disable and enable feeds from the main feeds page.
• Feed viewer now pops up using thickbox.
• You can now override any post field such as title, date, etc.
• RSS_CACHE_TIMEOUT can now be set by editing the autoblogged.php file.

Feed Processing

• Pseudo cron feature improved and now uses the shutdown hook rather than the footer hook so actions such as administration and feedretrieval can initiate feed processing.
• New feed processing settings allows you to configure individual feeds to update every time AutoBlogged runs or after every each number of runs you set.
  
• Allow other feeds to notify your autoblog of updates using an XML-RPC ping.
• Include all posts from each feed, set a maximum limit on posts added per feed, or have AutoBlogged select random posts based on a percentage you set.

Post Filtering

• Improved accuracy and exception handling of duplicate post detection.
• Truncate or filter out posts with long titles.
  
• Filter out posts where the titles are in all caps or where they contain multiple consecutive exclamation points or other punctuation.

Categories and Tags

• Improved category and tag user interfaces
• More than once category can now be assigned to each feed
• If more than once category selected, you can have AutoBlogged assign all categories to each post or randomly select one or more to assign to eachpost.
• Include categories from the original post and add missing categories to your blog if you choose.
• Updated tag block lists and improved tagging algorithm.
• You can now disable the internal tagging engine to leave tags off or only use tags from the original post.

Images and Video

• AutoBlogged now includes a .flv player and also allows you to specify a custom player URL.
• A variable will be created for each individual image, thumbnail, and video when you enable the EXTRA_IMAGE_FIELDS options by editing autoblogged.php.
• Improved image retrieval and handling.
• The default post template now includes videos and image thumbnails.

Authors

• You can now specify the author to use for new posts, assign a random author or use the name of the original author.
  
• If the original author does not exist as an author on your blog, add it, skip the post, randomly pick another author, or specify a default author.

Excerpts

• Excerpts have been improved and you can now set the length of excerpts based on words, sentences, or paragraphs.
  
• Excerpts are automatically added to the Excerpt field of each post.

Post Templates

• Added the following variables that you can use with post templates: %image_url%, %image_urls%, %thumbnail_url%, %thumbnail_urls%, %video_url%, %video_urls%.
• Each WordPress post now has a custom field added called Image, Thumbnail, and Video if these exist in the feed. These correspond to the %image_url%, %thumbnail_url%, and %video_url% variables. Various themes, including Revolution and Options will make use of these new custom fields.
• You can now add any feed element as a post variable, in the format: %media:player% or %media:keywords%. See our list of supported namespaces.

WordPress Integration

• Improved user interface and compatibility with WordPress versions 2.5 through 2.6.1.
• Improved compatibility with numerous other plugins, including those that modify the WordPress administration interface.
• AutoBlogged is now a top-level menu to simplify navigation and improve compatibility.
• Automatically check for plugin updates.

We are proud to announce another update of AutoBlogged that includes dozens of our most requested features! This update makes AutoBlogged one of the most powerful RSS and Atom feed aggregator plugins available for WordPress.

Look at some of the features in version AutoBlogged 2.3:

• Image and video support
• Custom post templates
• Advanced filtering
• Enhanced tagging engine
• Regular Expression Search & Replace
• Create local thumbnails for images
• Override feed data with your own value
• Fully supports WordPress 2.5 and later
• See all the features

Furthermore, we have added a comprehensive online help, and a new help desk to make sure you can quickly and easily get up and running your new auto blog.

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