RSS AutoPilot
RSS AutoPilot is a WordPress plugin capable of downloading Atom and RSS feeds and creating posts in WordPress using either summary provided by feed or grabbing content directly from a website using unique Content Extractor feature that allows you to manually pick content or automatically detect it. This feature moves feed content parsing to the next level.
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Manual Content Extractor
Features
- Feed your website with RSS feeds
- AutoPilot option
- Get news directly from website pages
- Automatic content detector
- Language translation
- Unique “Content Extractor” feature
- Create posts of different types
- Get featured image from content or set it manually per feed
- Fallback featured image
- Ignoring certain blocks from content
- Supports both Atom and RSS feeds
- Automatic links removal
- Post excerpts configuration
- Content filters
- WordPress “More” tag and canoncial URL support
- Translation ready
Future plans
- Have an idea? – Please, feel free to let us know. Let’s make RSS AutoPilot even better!
Release history
Version 1.5.0 – Aug 28, 2017
- NEW: Multiple block selection - NEW: Importing tags and categories - NEW: Fallback Featured image - NEW: Custom HTML code around imported posts - NEW: Extended thumbnails support - IMPROVED: A couple of fixed issues and minor improvements
Version 1.4.0 – Jan 10, 2016
- NEW: Set custom featured image for each feed - NEW: Automatic links removal option - NEW: WordPress "More" tag is now supported - NEW: WordPress Excerpt feature is now fully supported and configurable - IMPROVED: Updated user interface - IMPROVED: A couple of fixed issues and minor improvements
Version 1.3.0 – Nov 1, 2015
- NEW: Automatic translations with Yandex Translator API
Version 1.2.2 – Oct 22, 2015
Minor release with a few fixes reported by customers - IMPROVED: Language support. Tested on Korean, Arabic and Turkish - IMPROVED: Content parsing and thumbnails extraction
Version 1.2.1 – Oct 1, 2015
- NEW: Feed status information (last time updated and the number of posts imported) - NEW: It is now possible to set image as featured and remove it from the contents (useful for themes that display featured image on post page) - NEW: We've added a possibility to set a limit to the number of posts imported in a single run - NEW: “Overwrite” posts feature - IMPROVED: Now posts can be deleted with downloaded images
Version 1.2.0 – Sep 19, 2015
- IMPROVED: Some of our customers experienced an issue related to WordPress that resulted to duplicated content. Workaround for this was added. - IMPROVED: Thumbnails to downloaded images are now generated - IMPROVED: A couple of other minor bugfixes and improvements were done
Up to version 1.1.2
- NEW: Filters: required and disallowed keywords - NEW: Updated add/edit form with hints - NEW: Added feature to "remove" blocks within selected content in Content Extractor - NEW: Download all images option - NEW: Add canonical URL option - IMPROVED: A special trick to work on HostGator shared hosting added - IMPROVED: Fix to YouTube RSS feed - IMPROVED: Other minor fixes and improvements
Requirements
- PHP 5.3 or newer (5.4 recommended)
- libxml php extension
- MBstring php extension
- XML PHP extensions: DOM and SimpleXML
- cURL or Stream Context (allow_url_fopen=On)
- iconv extension