AutoBlogged is a WordPress plugin that automatically builds content in your WordPress blog using one or more external RSS or Atom feeds. AutoBlogged is a fast yet powerful tool for building a wide variety of web sites, such as portals, news aggregators, topic watchers, popular article finder, autoblog gallery, or simply an alternative for domain parking.

Getting Started with AutoBlogged

Configuration and Usage

• Main Page
• Edit Feeds Page
• Tag Options Page
• Settings Page
• Filtering Page

Advanced Topics

• AutoBlogged Tagging Engine
• Working with Tags and Categories
• Post Template Reference

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AutoBlogged is a powerful autoblogging plugin for WordPress that automatically creates blog posts from any RSS or Atom feed. Autoblogging is a great way to automate your WordPress posts so you can focus your efforts on earning money with your blog. With dozens of features, AutoBlogged is one of the most powerful autoblog software plugins available for WordPress and the best way to get automated blog content.

Features:

• Image and video support
• Custom post templates
• Advanced post filtering
• Enhanced tagging engine
• Regular Expression Search & Replace
• Create thumbnails for images
• Override feed data with your own values
• Fully supports WordPress 2.7 and later
• See AutoBlogged’s features

Furthermore, we have added a comprehensive online help, e-mail support, and customer forums to make sure you can quickly and easily get started autoblogging in WordPress! You can use AutoBlogged to build a blog network, as an automated video blog, to create topic portals, or aggregate RSS feeds. WP Autoblogs are a great way to quickly build keyword-dense content, earn money with your blog, and fully automate your blog posting. Even better, automated blog content is an excellent alternative to domain parking. Rather than showing a generic parked page with spammy-looking ads, you can provide real content, get indexed in search engines, build page rank, and generate traffic. You will be amazed how fast your domain value will grow!

Screenshots

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What is a single site license?

A single site license means that you can use AutoBlogged with one web site for one domain. Multiple copies can be used in subdirectories of a web site but not with a subdomain. In other words you can install AutoBlogged at www.example.com and www.example.com/support but not at support.example.com.

What is a multi-site license?

A multi-site license means that you can install AutoBlogged on up to fifty different sites. It is equivalent to ten single site licenses and the definition of a site follows the definition of a single site license.

What is a developer’s license?

A developer license means that you can install AutoBlogged on as many sites as you wish and you can resell those sites as long as AutoBlogged is part of the functionality of the site. The purchaser of the site will have the equivalent of a single site license. When you own a developer’s license, your support requests are always tagged as Urgent,  you can contact us via instant messenger, and your feature requests always get the highest priority.

Can I resell my AutoBlogged license?

You may sell your license if you transfer all rights to that license to the purchaser. You will no longer be the owner of the license and can no longer use the software. When you sell your license, you must contact us to transfer ownership and issue a new serial number to the purchaser.

Can I become an AutoBlogged reseller?

We do not have a reseller program, but if you own a developer’s license you may resell a web site that uses AutoBlogged as part of the functionality of the site. You can also join our affiliate program and earn 20% from every sale.

I bought your script from someone else in a forum or message board, is my license valid?

Your license is only valid if you received a license transfer confirmation and a new serial number from autoblogged.com. Unfortunately, if you did not receive a license transfer, your license is not valid.

If I buy a single site license or multi-site license, can I later upgrade to a higher license level?

You may upgrade your license at any time. If you wish to do so, please send your request including your serial number to support@autoblogged.com and we will give you an upgrade coupon code.

Can I get a demo copy of AutoBlogged?

We do not offer demo copies, but we do have a 30-day money back guarantee if you are not happy. You may also want to browse our screenshots to get a feel for what it does.

What is your upgrade policy?

When you purchase AutoBlogged you get all minor version upgrades for free. For example, if you purchase version 2.o, you will get 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, etc. for free. When we come out with a major version you can upgrade to that version for a modest upgrade fee.

Do I get technical support with my purchase?

Yes, we do provide free technical support via e-mail and our support forums. Our primary support hours are 9am to 5pm MST (GMT-0700) Monday through Friday. Support is available after hours, on weekends, and on US holidays but expect a longer response delay during these times.

The quality of your autoblog highly depends on the feeds that drive your site. Poor quality feeds can quickly fill your site and certainly will give visitors the impression that your site is spam.

So here are some links to help you out:

Yahoo! Pipes – This is by far the most powerful RSS aggregator with great filtering capabilities. You can even pull content from a CSV file and convert it to a RSS feed.

MySyndicaat – Similar to Yahoo! Pipes. Easier to use but not nearly as powerful.

BoardTracker – Allows you to search discussion boards and save that search as a RSS feed. I use this to watch forums for people looking for an autoblog script!

Feed43 – Another powerful service that lets you extract content from a regular HTML page and convert it to a RSS feed. I have used this in the past to pull posts from forums that do not support RSS. Its a little complicated at first but once you get used to it, you won’t be able to live without this. Recently I made myself a feed to monitor the “wanted to buy” forums on a number of domain boards, fed those feeds into Yahoo! Pipes for some filtering, then into my RSS reader.

What is a single site license?

A single site license means that you can use AutoBlogged with one web site for one domain. Multiple copies can be used in subdirectories of a web site but not with a subdomain. In other words you can install AutoBlogged at www.example.com and www.example.com/support but not at support.example.com.

What is a multi-site license?

A multi-site license means that you can install AutoBlogged on up to fifty different sites that you own. It is equivalent to fifty single site licenses and the definition of a site follows the definition of a single site license.

What is a developer’s license?

A developer license means that you can install AutoBlogged on as many sites as you wish and you can resell those sites as long as AutoBlogged is part of the functionality of the site. The purchaser of the site will have the equivalent of a single site license. When you own a developer’s license, your support requests are always tagged as Urgent,  you can contact us via instant messenger, and your feature requests always get the highest priority.

Can I resell my AutoBlogged license?

You may sell your license if you transfer all rights to that license to the purchaser. You will no longer be the owner of the license and can no longer use the software. When you sell your license, you must contact us to transfer ownership and issue a new serial number to the purchaser.

Can I become an AutoBlogged reseller?

We do not have a reseller program, but if you own a developer’s license you may resell a web site that uses AutoBlogged as part of the functionality of the site. You can also join our affiliate program and earn 20% from every sale.

I bought your script from someone else in a forum or message board, is my license valid?

Your license is only valid if you received a license transfer confirmation and a new serial number from autoblogged.com. Unfortunately, if you did not receive a license transfer, your license is not valid.

If I buy a single site license or multi-site license, can I later upgrade to a higher license level?

You may upgrade your license at any time. If you wish to do so, please send your request including your serial number to support@autoblogged.com and we will give you an upgrade coupon code.

Can I get a demo copy of AutoBlogged?

We do not offer demo copies, but we do have a 30-day money back guarantee if you are not happy. You may also want to browse our screenshots to get a feel for what it does.

What is your upgrade policy?

When you purchase AutoBlogged you get all minor version upgrades for free. For example, if you purchase version 2.o, you will get 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, etc. for free. When we come out with a major version you can upgrade to that version for a modest upgrade fee.

Do I get technical support with my purchase?

Yes, we do provide free technical support via e-mail and our support forums. Our primary support hours are 9am to 5pm MST (GMT-0700) Monday through Friday. Support is available after hours, on weekends, and on US holidays but expect a longer response delay during these times.

RSS Feed Sources

• Configure multiple RSS feed sources with the ability to enable or disable individual feeds.
• Support for RSS 0.9, 0.91, 0.92, 1.0, 2.0, and Atom 0.3 and 1.0 feeds.
• Integrated feed caching, HTTP Conditional GET support, and support for GZIP-compression to improve performance and reduce bandwidth usage.
• Support for dozens of RSS modules including Dublin Core, GeoRSS, ITunes, Media RSS, RSS 1.0 Content, W3C WGS84 Basic GEO, XML 1.0, and XHTML 1.0.
• Numerous pre-defined searches to locate articles via Google Blog Search, Technorati, Blogdigger, Blogpulse, MSN Spaces, Yahoo! News, Flickr, YouTube, and others.
  
• RSS Feed autodiscovery–if you don’t know the exact feed URL, just enter the page address and AutoBlogged will find it for you.
• Built-in feed viewer to help with setting up and troubleshooting feed sources.
• Ability to override the automatically extracted feed data, such as author or source, with your own static values or values.
• Set the default post status to Published, Pending, Draft, or Private

Feed Processing

• Process feeds automatically using built-in pseudo cron feature so an external scheduler is not required.
• Set a range of intervals for random update scheduling.
• Manually process all feeds or one feed at a time.
• Preview feed processing without importing any posts.
• Disable cron operations without disabling the entire plugin.
• Allow other feeds to notify your autoblog of updates using an XML-RPC ping.
• Configure individual feeds to update every time AutoBlogged runs or after every each number of runs you set.
  
• Include all posts from each feed, set a limit on posts added per feed, or have AutoBlogged select random posts based on a percentage you set.
• Automatically create text-only excerpts based on number of words, sentences, or paragraphs.

Post Filtering

• Domain blacklist blocks posts from certain domains. Excellent way to block sites with spammy content, invalid HTML, or to allow webmasters to exclude their site from your blog.
• Block posts based on any portion of the URL to prevent posts from a specific type of sites such as forums or to block feeds from certain types of software.
• Keyword blacklists to exclude posts that contain keywords you specify.
• Duplicate post checking based on title and/or URL.
• Automatic filtering of malicious content in posts including SQL injection and cross-site scripting.
• Feed-specific filtering based on all words, any words, exact phrase, or none of the words specified.
  
• Feed-specific search and replace features using regular expressions to rewrite words, URLs, fix invalid content, replace affiliate IDs, etc.
• 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

• Assign each feed to one or more blog categories or subcategories or have AutoBlogged randomly select from a list of categories you specify.
• Search each post for existing blog categories and add them as additional categories or as tags on the post.
• Visits the original URL to extract additional tags not found in the feed using our own powerful tagging engine–an important SEO feature that will load your blog with related keywords.
  
• Add extra tags using the Yahoo! tagging API.
• Include categories from the original post and add missing categories to your blog if you choose.
• Tag blacklists prevent certain tags from appearing on a post.
• Common tags list increases the frequency of popular tags used by Technorati and other tagging sites or modify the list to add important tags for your niche.
• Provide a list of tags to randomly add to each post to increase the density of long tail phrases and other targeted keywords.
• Set the maximum and minimum tag length to ensure consistency and readability of your tags.
• Set the maximum number of tags to add to any post.

Authors

• Specify the author to use for new posts, assign a rando m 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.

• Use additional author information from your blog when adding new posts.

Post Templates

• Post templates let you randomly select from one or more post formats to ensure variety and to accommodate any number of site requirements.
• Apply different post templates to each of your feeds.
• Insert variables from the post, original feed, or any values you define.
• Random Select Lists to add variety to each post.
• Conditional Select Lists to show alternate fields if one is empty.
• Include images, video, flash and other content in your blog posts using an embedded video players.
• Specify a custom player for playing FLV or MP3 files.
• Build custom post templates to use with affiliate and other non-standard feed formats.
• Include text-only summaries or entire feed content as your post.
• Add custom HTML to each post to include NoFollow tags, Javascript, or even WordPress quick tags.
• Custom fields allow you to create your own post variables and include items as additional custom fields fin Wordpress.
• Automatic image, logo, and favicon extraction.
• Include any elements from the original feed based on dozens of supported RSS modules.
• And of course, you can simply show the original feed content untouched.

WordPress Integration

• Takes advantage of internal tagging and category engines to ensure strong keyword coverage and site navigation.
• Full integration with WordPress security and user permission features.
• Attribute posts to WordPress authors when incoming posts use that author’s name.
• Uses site information from WordPress blogroll when that site already exists in your blogroll.
• Automatically adds fields for images, videos, and thumbnails to support a variety of premium themes.

Other Features

• Set the HTTP Referer and User-Agent strings to use when visiting the original sites to advertise your site or provide opt-out instructions or contact info to other webmasters.
• Huge speed and performance improvements over previous versions.
• Commented PHP source code included.
• Support forum and e-mail support for all registered users.
• Free minor version updates included.

System Requirements

• PHP v4.3.2 or later
• WordPress v2.5 or later
• SimplePie Core Plugin v1.1 or later
• PHP cURL extension required
• PHP Zlib extension recommended

Note that servers with safe_mode enabled or an open_basedir set will have reduced image retrieval and tagging capabilities.