Frecuent Asked Questions

You can replace the text with a custom filter in your functions.php file like follow

add_filter('wpematico_addcat_description', "My_function_name");
function My_function_name($catdescription, $catname){
	$catdescription= "My NEW COOL DESCRIPTION";
	return $catdescription;
}

Check the option inside the campaign editing screen in the metabox Options for this campaign.

Post title links to source

This will make in the index and archive pages that all the permalinks go to the original webpage instead of enter in the single page of the post.

If you get problems with it: https://etruel.com/question/post-title-links-source-seems-not-working/.

There are too many WPeMatico plug in’s and all have similar functions. Which one should I buy ? For example, difference between professional, full content, make me feed full, make me feed good – they all look the same.

I believe that the better options are the bundled packages: WPeMatico Make me Feed Full , WPeMatico PRO or WPeMatico The Perfect Package

Make me Feed Full contains Full Content and Make me feed addons with a good discount.
PRO contains Full Content and Professional addons with a good discount.
The perfect package has a bigger discount but contains all the addons, that’s why you need more money, but you win a lot more.

There is an addon to make RSS Feeds in your WordPress website with contents from external sources.

Take a look at its features on WPeMatico Make me Feed Good

Installing the Free Version of WPeMatico

Like any plugin in WordPress.  You can follow the steps in the plugin Installation page.

After install and learn how to use it, you can make some tests.

WPeMatico core has a lot of free features that you should give a try before to buy an addon. If you love it, then proceed with…

Install an AddOn

After the purchase of an Addon you should receive an email with all your licenses keys and direct links to your purchased downloads.

This links expires in 24hs, after that (or if you don’t receive the email), you must go to your account to find and manage all your data, licenses keys, downloads and subscriptions.

Proceed with the installations

1. Download all your files to your computer and upload them to your wordpress Plugins from the Add New Plugin item in your dashboard.
   • If you can’t upload the plugins from your WordPress admin, you must upload the unziped folders of the files to your server through FTP to the plugins directory of your site ( /wp-content/plugins)
   • Take care on don’t upload the zip files.  You must decompress it in your computer and then upload the entire folder of the addon.
     ie:
     /wp-content/plugins/wpematico_professional/
     /wp-content/plugins/wpematico_fullcontent/
     /wp-content/plugins/wpematico_thumbnail_scratcher/
   • If the folders already exists you should delete them before upload the new files.
2. Go to plugins page in your admin and activate the plugins.
3. Go to your Licenses page and fill in all the license keys received on the purchase email.
   The Check License button appears when a key is pressed in the License Key input field.
   If you have doubts on what license to use, take a look at this FAQ.

Proceed with the updates

Time in time a new version of every addon is released.  When this happens, you should be notified in your wordpress admin.

At this time you must go to the updates page or to the item Plugins->WPeMatico Add-ons

1. If you entered the licenses keys, activated them and are still active (not expired) you can update like any other WordPress plugin by clicking Update Now
   
2. The second option is do it by FTP to the plugins directory of your site ( /wp-content/plugins)
   If the addon’s folder already exists, you must delete it before upload the new files.

When the addon is updated the pink banner should disappear.

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The number of the items imported every time that the campaign runs, are limited by the items in the source feed URL. Normally they don’t have more than 10.
Anyway it’s not recommendable more than 3 or 5 items at a time.
You can see the feed content by opening the feed URL in Firefox browser.

The option are enable by default.  When you save a campaign the feeds URLs are tested, if some feeds are not correct, an error banner is displayed and the campaign is not saved.

If you want to avoid this behaviour you can deactivate the check process in WPeMatico Settings by checking the option: “Disable Check Feeds before Save“; anyway you can check the feeds url by hand just the first time 😉

This feature works with the Permalink() method of WordPress. It changes the link of the post to the link of the source website, but only if the post was added with WPeMatico.

Note: “Read more” links are also changed because they works with the same permalink() function.

If you aren’t using the function “permalink()” in your theme files, this feature has no effect for you.

See also How can I include the original source and the author’s name in every post.

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.

You can do this with the Post Template feature inside WPeMatico campaign editing screen.

Take a look in the HELP Tab when are editing a campaign.  You’ll find some examples there.  See below the screenshot.

For Campaign Options Metabox:

For better and quick performance you can try by checking Avoid search redirection to source permalink and see once if the campaign works well with the content and permalinks running it manually.

Full content Feature needs very much resources, then I recommend when you can use almost all data from the feed, take from there.
I mean if the feed has in its item the full content, don’t check “Get full content from source webpage”, this will avoid a lot of resources if you have too many campaigns.

I also recommend that you deactivate these options from the Full Content metabox:

If the source webpage don’t have articles with multipage, then uncheck:
Searches for multi-page articles

By Default the title are in feeds item, then uncheck:
Get the Title from the source webpage

Also the Date are in feeds item, then uncheck:
Get the Date for the post from the source webpage

The Author normally is just a nick. You can set it in your Campaign Options and uncheck this.
Get the Author from the source webpage

Also this item take very much resources because if the author don’t exists in your wordpress wpematico will create it taken some time and resources.
Create the Author if not exist.

The WPeMatico free version works with feed contents as any other feed.

Google News or Google Alerts are special feeds because shows articles from many different websites.  Google news works with many websites at a time getting the contents from them to make their feeds and each site is different.

Professional Addon cleans the URLs for Google news by checking the option  “Sanitize Googlo News permalink.” in the campaign editing screen.

Full content Addon works automatically for almost all sites.  If it fails with a website, you can make a config file for that domain by pointing where the full content is.  There are many websites that don’t need a config file, but it will be necessary for others.  Full content addon will try to detect the correct content for all the articles in each source site, but can be erratic for some of them.

Then, the addon will works with many of the websites, but may not work for others. For these will need a custom config file for each one, because the plugin goes to each source website to take the full content.  If you see which are these websites you could make a config file for each one in the WPeMatico Settings screen -> Full Content Tab.  Take a look at the examples and the Help tab to see the basic instructions and learn how to make a config file for a website.  Or you can order a premium support to us do it for you.

Sometimes there is a misunderstanding on how the cron scheduling works.

You should select the time when the campaign is going to be run and NOT the hour interval for the campaign execution as in other plugins.

If you want to run the campaign every two hours, you must select 0,2,4,6,8,10 … etc in the “Hours” list.

If you want to run the campaign every hour- at the minute 30 of each hour-, you should select 30 in the “Minutes” list and Any (*) in the list of Hours and others.

If you want to run the campaign once a day, you should select the time: Hour and Minutes on each list and leave Days, Months and Weekday as “Any (*)”. Example: At 3am.

Example: Every monday at 3am.

Not wildcards, but you can use PHP Regular expressions. Remember to check the “Regex” field.

See some tips in Help Tab in Campaign edition screen.
Also see tutorials like http://regexone.com/references/php
http://php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax.php

and a Regex live site to make tests with a sample text: http://www.phpliveregex.com/

The post template don’t works on real time, just when fetch and save the post.

The “Post Template” feature works when the campaign is running.  This means that take the content of the feed item, parses it like is given the format that you’ve made in the post template and then the post is saved.

Sound like cURL is not activated in your hosting.

Can you see on your WP Settings -> Writing below on WPeMatico Section ?

Try checking Hide Reviews on Settings

The name of the option in the Settings is Continue Fetching if found duplicated items. (The first name in the past was Jump Duplicates)

Take in mind that the campaign works with the items in order as they are in the feed. If an item duplicated is found, that means that all the following items were previously fetched in a previous executed campaign. (This happens when the campaign has some time running automatically. Not the first times)

That’s why the campaign is interrupted when find the first duplicated.

• Is strongly recommend if you can deactivate Jump Duplicates to get better behaviours.

If you deactivate “Jump Duplicates” option, you can run the campaign more times in an hour to don’t lose any post.

You will not lose new posts because the feed items are ordered by datetime in almost all cases.  When the campaign runs, goes item by item from newest to oldest, and stops when found the first duplicated item, this mean that all items following (the old ones) are also duplicated.

We are talking about autoblog, this means new items added automatically.  Focus your mind to the future, not to the past. 😉

Example 1: if you fetch 4 of ten items in feed, then you lost 6 but just the first time.  After the first run the campaign stops when found the first duplicated post or item number 4.  Then if you run the campaign fast enough, will not lose any post unless the feed adds too many posts between running the campaign.

Example 2: If you have a feed that have 34 items then:

You must set the campaign to work from now to the future, then you can deprecate old items (or try to run manually a campaign to fetch the 34 items, but is useless for the main purpose )

Then you must know how much new items are added in an hour (or two hour or in a day) This depends of the source site.

If you see that the main site are adding 10 posts around a day, you can think that get 2 post per hour is enough.  You’ll get better performance if this value is as lower as you can, and you don’t loose any item because the main site don’t have more than 1 new post in an hour.

If you think that more than 2 posts can be added in an hour then you can fetch every 30 minutes.

This is also better for performance.

• If you are using Custom Titles Feature from Professional version, you’ll also lose Duplicated Titles checking, because the original title will be saved always as a different title.

Try this on WPeMatico Settings
Remember: the feed must have images in its content.

There is a post with more detailed instructions here:

http://www.wpematico.com/set-images-featured-wpematico/

It includes a licence to get all the upgrades for a year. If the you don’t want to continue with updates after a year, you can continue using the plugin forever.

Take a look at the article https://etruel.com/software-licensing-for-automatic-updates/

And also our Terms & Conditions.

The support is for free with our tickets system. Any error in the plugin will be solved for free and included in a next release.

If you have some hard issue at your side that you can’t solve, you can access to premium support.

The free version is pulling partial content, can the professional version pull the complete content ? Is this something you can verify ?

Free version works with the feeds contents, no matter if they have partial or full contents.

Professional Addon does not have the feature to take the full content.  May be it is confused with the PRO Bundled package that contains Full Content and Professional Addons.

Using the Full Content Addon the plugin goes to the source site and take the content from there.

If you have problems with the content taken you can make a config file to “tell” the plugin where is the article content in that domain.  If you want to know if a feed works with the Full Content without problems you could send the feed URL to make a test.

First step, to enable Custom Titles go to Settings and enable Custom title feature.

This will show the custom titles metabox inside the campaign editing screen.

After enable each option will show the fields to use the feature.

You can use the variable tags {title} that will be replaced by the source feed item title and the {counter} that will be replaced by the below counter number (if Add counter to Post Title option is enabled)

Only if you have issues with duplicated posts after activate this options, you should activate Add an extra filter to check duplicates by Custom Post title.

Professional Add-on has the feature ‘Custom fields with dynamic values’
This allows to add as many fields as you want with the possibility of adding values as variables which are replaced on the fly when the campaign is running. This allows you to add custom fields, values like permalink, images urls, etc.

If you need more custom data, the plugin allows add a wordpress filter ‘wpem_meta_data’ to add names and values of custom fields
example:

add_filter('wpem_meta_data', 'my_custom_meta_data' );
function my_custom_meta_data ($currentmeta ){
	$arraycf = array(
		'mycf1' => $value1,
		'my_cf2' => 1025
	);
	return array_merge($currentmeta, $arraycf) ;
}

​(not tested)​

Also take in mind that all extra support from our part to do something like this for you will require ​the premium support service.

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Installing the Free Version of WPeMatico

Like any plugin in WordPress.  You can follow the steps in the plugin Installation page.

After install and learn how to use it, you can make some tests.

WPeMatico core has a lot of free features that you should give a try before to buy an addon. If you love it, then proceed with…

Install an AddOn

After the purchase of an Addon you should receive an email with all your licenses keys and direct links to your purchased downloads.

This links expires in 24hs, after that (or if you don’t receive the email), you must go to your account to find and manage all your data, licenses keys, downloads and subscriptions.

Proceed with the installations

1. Download all your files to your computer and upload them to your wordpress Plugins from the Add New Plugin item in your dashboard.
   • If you can’t upload the plugins from your WordPress admin, you must upload the unziped folders of the files to your server through FTP to the plugins directory of your site ( /wp-content/plugins)
   • Take care on don’t upload the zip files.  You must decompress it in your computer and then upload the entire folder of the addon.
     ie:
     /wp-content/plugins/wpematico_professional/
     /wp-content/plugins/wpematico_fullcontent/
     /wp-content/plugins/wpematico_thumbnail_scratcher/
   • If the folders already exists you should delete them before upload the new files.
2. Go to plugins page in your admin and activate the plugins.
3. Go to your Licenses page and fill in all the license keys received on the purchase email.
   The Check License button appears when a key is pressed in the License Key input field.
   If you have doubts on what license to use, take a look at this FAQ.

Proceed with the updates

Time in time a new version of every addon is released.  When this happens, you should be notified in your wordpress admin.

At this time you must go to the updates page or to the item Plugins->WPeMatico Add-ons

1. If you entered the licenses keys, activated them and are still active (not expired) you can update like any other WordPress plugin by clicking Update Now
   
2. The second option is do it by FTP to the plugins directory of your site ( /wp-content/plugins)
   If the addon’s folder already exists, you must delete it before upload the new files.

When the addon is updated the pink banner should disappear.

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Since version 1.4 Professional extension has a new feature to allow to use the same image already obtained previously, but without downloading it again, if it has the same name.

This can be confusing because different images, from different sites or not, may have the same name, then different posts will use the same featured image.

Just use the WordPress standards to avoid this behaviour.  You’ll upload all the images, but don’t wrongly repeating them.

• Download the add-ons from your account or from downloads links in the purchase notification email.
• Upload and install them in your WordPress plugins page.
• Activate them in WPeMatico Add-Ons Page (Subitem of Plugins in your WordPress Menu)
• Go to Settings, Licenses tab and you will see the new input fields for your license keys.
• Paste the keys and then click on activate button (may be twice)
• If you don’t see a button to submit, just enter the license in the field and press Enter.

If you purchase the PRO bundled product, you’ll receive three license keys.  Be aware to use the correct:

Example: After buy you’ll receive a receipt with the license keys as follow:

Licenses:
WPeMatico PRO – License for two websites: 75xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx7d
(Not used in the licenses Screen, it is just for renewals on etruel.com)

WPeMatico Professional – License for two websites: 9cfxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx0xxa8
(Use this key for WPeMatico Professional Addon)

WPeMatico Full Content – License for two websites: f8dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxb88bc
(Use this key for WPeMatico Full-Content Addon)

I wrote this note to clarified when I released 1.3 version.  If you have old version of the plugin, you must login into your account and download both new plugins to replace the old PRO version.

For automattic updates

Since 1.3 version Professional and Full content Addons has their own licenses keys, and PRO license key is used just for upgrade suscriptions of bundled purchases in this website.

You must use your Professional license key in your Settings and click on Activate button until it say Activated.

At this time, you must see all your license keys on your account.  If not, please open a support ticket.

To enable html strip from items titles go to Settings and enable Custom title feature.  (This will show the custom titles metabox inside campaigns)

Save the settings and go to edit a campaign.

Now you must see a metabox as below; just check the metabox for Strip HTML Tags From title and save the campaign.

Now for every item added as post (type) the campaign will checks the title and if it has html tags, will delete them.

Feature available on Professional version

It includes a licence to get all the upgrades for a year. If the you don’t want to continue with updates after a year, you can continue using the plugin forever.

Take a look at the article https://etruel.com/software-licensing-for-automatic-updates/

And also our Terms & Conditions.

The support is for free with our tickets system. Any error in the plugin will be solved for free and included in a next release.

If you have some hard issue at your side that you can’t solve, you can access to premium support.

The free version is pulling partial content, can the professional version pull the complete content ? Is this something you can verify ?

Free version works with the feeds contents, no matter if they have partial or full contents.

Professional Addon does not have the feature to take the full content.  May be it is confused with the PRO Bundled package that contains Full Content and Professional Addons.

Using the Full Content Addon the plugin goes to the source site and take the content from there.

If you have problems with the content taken you can make a config file to “tell” the plugin where is the article content in that domain.  If you want to know if a feed works with the Full Content without problems you could send the feed URL to make a test.

If you have any problem on move the folder and files or non standards permissions in your directories, you can manually create a folder wherever you want and then add a WordPress filter in your functions.php file pointing to your custom folder in the following way:

add_filter( ‘wpematico_fullcontent_folder’,  ‘wpematico_configfiles_folder’,20,1 );
function wpematico_configfiles_folder($customconfigdir) {

$mynewdir = ‘INPUT HERE THE FULL PATH’;
// ie: /home/user/htdocs/wp-content/uploads/myfolder/config/custom/

if( !is_dir( $mynewdir ) ) return $customconfigdir;

return $mynewdir;

}

I’ll give you some actions that you can do to see what happens:

1. Identify what is the campaign with the issue.
2. Click on Yellow icon at right of Feed URL to Test if the feed is working well with the plugin.
3. Click in the feed url link to open it in a new tab of your browser.  (Better if you can test it with firefox)
4. Take a look if the source webpage has change its layout.  You can do this by clicking in an item in the feed URL.
5. If everything is fine, you can open the WPeMatico Settings, in Full Content Tab and make some tests there.
   For more details with this, check out the answer here: https://etruel.com/question/cant-get-full-content-full-content-add/.

For Campaign Options Metabox:

For better and quick performance you can try by checking Avoid search redirection to source permalink and see once if the campaign works well with the content and permalinks running it manually.

Full content Feature needs very much resources, then I recommend when you can use almost all data from the feed, take from there.
I mean if the feed has in its item the full content, don’t check “Get full content from source webpage”, this will avoid a lot of resources if you have too many campaigns.

I also recommend that you deactivate these options from the Full Content metabox:

If the source webpage don’t have articles with multipage, then uncheck:
Searches for multi-page articles

By Default the title are in feeds item, then uncheck:
Get the Title from the source webpage

Also the Date are in feeds item, then uncheck:
Get the Date for the post from the source webpage

The Author normally is just a nick. You can set it in your Campaign Options and uncheck this.
Get the Author from the source webpage

Also this item take very much resources because if the author don’t exists in your wordpress wpematico will create it taken some time and resources.
Create the Author if not exist.

When the content fetched is blank or wrong or if I want to add more sections of source site to the content, I do it in firefox in this way:

• Open in browser the test_url http://www.wpematico.com/set-images-featured-wpematico/
• See “some word in content” that you want to pull
• Press CTRL+U to open a new tab with Page Source Code
• Search with CTRL+F for “some word in content” and look in what <div> id or class it is. Like <div class=”entry-content”>
• Add this tag in “body:” line in you config file. This should look like:
  body: //div[@class=’page-header-image-single grid-container grid-parent generate-page-header’] | //div[@class=’entry-content’]

This will work with all posts fetched from wpematico.

I try to give you all necessary tools and to explain all you need for do it yourself, but this can be difficult for someone. There is an alternative if you want to buy premium support, I can Make it for you. 🙂

The WPeMatico free version works with feed contents as any other feed.

Google News or Google Alerts are special feeds because shows articles from many different websites.  Google news works with many websites at a time getting the contents from them to make their feeds and each site is different.

Professional Addon cleans the URLs for Google news by checking the option  “Sanitize Googlo News permalink.” in the campaign editing screen.

Full content Addon works automatically for almost all sites.  If it fails with a website, you can make a config file for that domain by pointing where the full content is.  There are many websites that don’t need a config file, but it will be necessary for others.  Full content addon will try to detect the correct content for all the articles in each source site, but can be erratic for some of them.

Then, the addon will works with many of the websites, but may not work for others. For these will need a custom config file for each one, because the plugin goes to each source website to take the full content.  If you see which are these websites you could make a config file for each one in the WPeMatico Settings screen -> Full Content Tab.  Take a look at the examples and the Help tab to see the basic instructions and learn how to make a config file for a website.  Or you can order a premium support to us do it for you.

Full Content Add-on works for almost all sites but If you see that can’t gets automatically the content from a website you will need a configuration file to get full content.

You can make it in WPeMatico Settings -> Full Content Tab  ( Image 1 )

Image 1

Is strongly recommended that you move the files to Uploads folder by clicking the “Move to Uploads” button.

After that, press F5 to refresh the page and use the “Browse” button to upload a config file. Also you can click in a file to load it and “Save as” to another domain name and edit it as you want.

You must see the new file in green list with the other files.  Once the file is uploaded or created, you can’t delete it from this screen.  You must go for it from FTP or another way.

To select elements for extraction or removal, we use XPath. If you’re not familiar with the syntax, there’s a nice tutorial, examples, and some other instructions in “Help” tab in up-right corner. ( Image 2 )

Or if you want to buy premium support, I can Make it for you.

Image 2

Continue on How to pull more content from source ?

Seems to be a problem with the WordPress Permalinks.

Try this: Go to WordPress Settings, Permalinks and save the options.  This would fix the WordPress permalinks.

There is an addon to make RSS Feeds in your WordPress website with contents from external sources.

Take a look at its features on WPeMatico Make me Feed Good

I will do an example creating a feed for www.wpematico.com.

WordPress and plugins are installed.
I’m going to use the plugins WPeMatico, the Addon WPeMatico Full Content and Make Me Feed (Good)

1. 1. I’m going to the administration of WordPress.
   2. WPeMatico Settings-> Full Content Tab.
   3. I modify the wpematico.com.txt configuration file to get the content I want.
   4. I’m going now to the list of Feeds created (none yet) and I give click to Add Feed.
   5. Typing “WPeMatico.com test” as a title.
   6. I add the index URL of the site which I will read the titles and links of remote items.
   7. I added the maximum number of items that I want to get. Others will be ignored.
   8. As I have installed the Addon WPeMatico Full Content, check the option to get the full content of each article: “Get Full Content from source permalinks to use as feed item content.”
      
   9. I open the remote site in a new tab, by clicking on the link to the right of the text field.
   10. Now we need to find the element in the DOM that contains titles with a link to the article. I come to find classes or IDs CSS containing the element:
       • Using Firefox (in chrome is very similar), give right click on any of the titles that I want to get, and in the drop-down menu on “Inspect Element“.
         
       • Looking for the id or class of the HTML tag surrounding the link, in this case the code that interests me is as follows:
       • <h2 class=”entry-title” itemprop=”headline”>
         <a href=”http://www.wpematico.com/set-images-featured-wpematico/” rel=”bookmark”>Get and Set Images as Featured with WPeMatico</a>
         </h2>
       • I will use what is in red to obtain what is green: as “a” label does not identify or CSS class, I’ll use the “h2” that contains it.
       • Click to open image in new browser tab.
       • The identifier for this element is found with the “entry-title” starting with a “.” for being a class. (If it’s id is added “#“) and the identifier in the same way that is done with jQuery, we will add it in the next field in the edition of the feed:
         .entry-title a
       • If there are more titles with different format, I can continue to add IDs and they will be adding to the list by eliminating the repeated links.
   11. It is almost ready! It remains to be seen if I was not wrong to choose the identifier. For this I have the button “Test Area” used after recording the data, in this instance I can save the feed as a draft for not doing this public yet. When you click on the “Test Area” button will open a popup with a sample of what you will get in the final feed.   The first time may take a bit to load data from the remote site because you do not have generated a cache but then it goes faster.
   12. To see the final Feed I can open “View post” or click on the “Preview Changes” button.
   13. Two ways to get the feed permalink:
       After save the feed.
       

       In the created feeds list, on over it title you’ll see the quick action: View.
       

    

    

WPeMatico Better Excerpts only saves excerpts, it don’t touching the post contents.  If you’ll use just excertps in your website, it can do the job.

But if you want to use the post content with images, links or other html tags inside, you’ll need WPeMatico Professional AddOn

Feature Words counters filters.

Strip the HTML and count how many words or letters are in content and allows assign a category, cut the content or skip the post.