02.24.08

wp-o-matic quick & dirty duplicate post fix

Posted in Open Source, wordpress tagged , , , , , , at 12:23 am by linuxil

I’m getting a lot of duplicate posts using wp-o-matic and if you are reading this, you probably have the same problem.

Instead of fixing wp-o-matic (that’s the developer’s job) I just changed my local wordpress to ignore posts with the same title.

Here is how it works :

  1. Open up wp-includes/post.php in your favorite editor
  2. at approx line 703 you will find the following line :
    if ($post_name_check || in_array($post_name, $wp_rewrite->feeds) ) {
  3. After this insert a new line of code :
    return 0;
  4. save (you did make a backup, right?).
  5. All done.

02.21.08

wp-o-matic cron install problem

Posted in Linux, Open Source, wordpress tagged , , , , , , at 2:57 am by linuxil

WP-o-Matic is a cool auto-blogging plugin for wordpress.

After installation you’ll have to change cron.php if you want to use automatic feed fetching via crontab.

  1. take note of the code wp-o-matic will give you on installation.
  2. open cron.php in your favorite editor
  3. add this piece of code after the <?php opening tag :
    if ($argc > 0)
    {
    for ($i=1;$i < $argc;$i++)
    {
    parse_str($argv[$i],$tmp);
    $_REQUEST = array_merge($_REQUEST, $tmp);
    }
    }
  4. fire up crontab -e and add something like the following line to it :
    */20 * * * * php /DIR_TO_WP/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cron.php code=YOURCODE
    change DIR_TO_WP with you path to wordpress and YOURCODE with the code you noted in step 1
  5. Save the file and cron will run your fetcher every 20 minutes.
  6. You’re done, go add some rss feeds.

02.20.08

What is Linux?

Posted in Linux, Open Source tagged , , at 9:07 pm by linuxil

This page will describe about Linux, the operating system, kernel, it’s creators and more.

02.04.08

Joomla! 1.5

Posted in Israel, Linux, Open Source tagged , , at 1:44 am by linuxil

Joomla! 1.5 is out.

Hebrew speaking users should read about Joomla! here.

There is also a demo available for the curious …