Auto Content Generator for Blogs

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Installing Auto Content Generator for Blogs Script

If you want to install this script yourself, you just have to follow the following steps:

  1. First of all, ensure that you have word press blog installed and running on your server.
  2. Then unzip the contents of this zip file on your local PC.
  3. Upload all the files to your webserver. You can use any FTP client such as WS FTP, Cute FTP etc to do that.
  4. The files must be uploaded in the same folder as the word press blog. Make sure that the wp_config.php file (the config file for Word Press) is there in the folder in which you are uploading this file.
  5. This script will automatic create database tables in Word Press database. 
  6. That's it. Your Auto Content Generator for Blogs script installation is over.
  7. The next section talks about accessing admin area.

Accessing the control panel

You can access the control panel by visiting http://yourserver/WordPress/rsstoblog1.php
(or any location where you uploaded the file)

Use the following username and password to login.
Username: demo
Password: demo

Category Summary :

This section gives an overview of the contents in all the categories of Word Press
Here you will see information like:

- Category Details :The category names which are available in Word Press Blog.
- Total Blogs : Total number of blog entries which is in each category.
- Last Update : Last date when auto content was inserted by this script in that category.
- Update Content Settings:  Click this to set content generation conditions for each category.

Please note that you will have to add/modify/delete categories from the admin area of word press.
Management of categories is NOT done using this script.

 Update Content Setting

When you click on "Update" link of update content setting on the overview page, you are taken to the area where you can specify content generation condition for the selected category.

1: Post Blogs From RSS FEEDs
Here you specify the conditions for generating the contents. Here you will have the following options

- Blogs Limit for every RSS Feed : Number and  position of news to be fetched from each RSS FEED. For example, if you set it from 3 to 7 then from each RSS, news #3, #4, #5, #6 and #7 will be picked and inserted in the blog.
- Check New RSS Item every N days: Here you define the frequency when you want to check for new contents in the RSS blogs. The minimum value is 1. This is to ensure that your traffic will not put extra load on the RSS servers.
- Insert Site URL in every Blogs : Every RSS news has a site url where the details are stored.
If you check YES here, then the URLS will be appended to each entry and the users can read the details that URL.
If you set it to No, then the URL will not be displayed.
- Enter RSS FEED(s): In this text area, you can enter any number of RSS Feeds URLs from which you want to fetch content for your blogs.
Each URL should be in a new one i.e. ONE URL PER LINE.

2. Add Text Above or Below each entry of the blog

To make the contents of your blog entry unique, you can insert custom text/comments/feedback either above the news or below it.
In this area, you define the conditions for inserting the comments.

You can specify any number of comments for the Blog posts. You will have to separate multiple entries with the keyword  #BREAK#.
Please make sure that #BREAK# is in all UPPER CASE.

You comments can be of multiple lines and can have any html content in them.

Then you can specify, how you want the contents to be inserted.

- Insert Text in Blog Description : You can insert this custom text Before or After RSS news text.
- You can insert this custom text sequentially or Randomly. If you set it to Random, then one of the comments that are separated by #BREAK#, will be randomly selected and appended either above or below( as specified by you) in the news post.
If you set it to sequential, then the comments will be picked one after the other and will be appended to news items.
When the last entry is made, the loop will start again from the beginning.

After inserting all the information you just press Save All Settings.

Inserting contents from RSS to Blogs

There are TWO ways to fetch the contents.

1. Manual Method to Fetch Contents
You will see a link at the bottom of the page to Insert Content in Blog immediately.
FIRST SAVE YOUR SETTINGS and then press » Click Here To Insert Content In Blogs «

This will IGNORE the frequency settings and will check for new contents Immediately.

2. Automated Method to Fetch Contents

You can copy and paste this following tag at the bottom of any of your html/php pages that is visited daily by users.

<img src="http://yourdomain/Word Press/insert_rss.php" height="1" width="1">
(Replace this URL by the actual location on which you uploaded this script)

This will create a 1 px by 1 px image (virtually invisible image) at the bottom of the page and everytime this page is visited by any visitor, the rss will be checked for new contents based on your frequency settings.

Getting Help:

If you have any questions regarding the setup or operation of this software, you can contact with us through the HelpDesk at TurboHelpDesk.com