WP Blogs’ Planetarium
Little of history
Hello dude! as you may know, I’ve spent some time writing a Blogs’ Planetarium about my country’s blogs (spanish link). At that time I started a project Another PHP Blogs’ Planetarium (APBP, as you can see I am not good choosing names), the project is still in dev. because it is very big, and I am adding it a lot of features and I am planning more and more (most of them are AI related). So, yesterday I was with some lazy time and I got a brilliant idea while I was writing something in my blog, “I can write the WP plugin version of APBP”, since WP is a very cool framework development, yes it is, it is much more than only best blogging system.
So after 2 hours, I finished the first alpha version, which is usable just take a look at the Devel version of Pygosfera. Of course, a lot of things are missing, what I got in mind right now are (my official to-do list):
- Add a better link to the original post.
- List blogs’ URL in the blogroll automatically.
- Create WP users for every blogs’ author (right now the author with ID 1 inserts all the posts).
- Write good doc for developers and final users.
- … (If you want to something, feel free to ask).
How to install.
- Download the last version of the WBP, and uncompress into your plugin folder, enable the plugin.
- Go to options (admin page), and add blogs url at the “Blogs Planetarium” tab.
- Configure the crawling task.
- At this stage of the project (dev. stage), it only supports by console crawling executions, this means that you need to exec it directly. It may sounds complex but it isn’t (at least if you’re using a cool OS). Supose you have your WP installed at /var/www/html/wp, then simple write the follow script cd /var/www/html/wp; php index.php and place at your crond. IMHO 1 hour of crawling is enough,
- Soon I’d like to add also add a directly I add the crawling execution, i.e http://wp-example.com/?wbp_key=foobar, in order to use in shared hosting, also I am planning to offer a free service that “pings” out every hour to every WBP.
License
I give away the project, it is public domain, except the http.php(BSD) and the rss.php (GPL) which are not written by me. My idea freeing the project is shown how easy is extend your WP.
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¡A probar este release!
hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
Regards
hey dude!
No problem, :), I always like to share my source code.
Feedback are always welcome.
Hello César,
I followed links here looking for more information on this plugin “Planetarium” does? Please excuse my ignorance if I’ve missed something, but I’m not clear on this subject.
My WP blog is new and I’ve almost crashed it twice with a couple of plugins that were not compatible.
I’d be much obliged if you could explain more in detail.
Thank you.
Sunny
Hello Sunny,
Sorry because my description is not enough, as you can see English is not my first language (actually it is my 3rd lang.).
The “planetarium” as you can see (http://www.go-mono.com/monologue/, http://planet.perl.org/, http://www.mechanicalcat.net/pyblagg.html and http://devel.pygosfera.com/ -> [the live version of the plugin]). Basically is a place where you all the blogs that you want to follow (usually about a project, about a country, etc), then the “planetarium” visits those blogs extract all the info and inserts as your posts, always adding a link to the original posts.
I don’t know if my explanation is clear, please feel to ask any doubt.
Best regards,
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This plugin appears to be not compatible with WP 2.7. It says only up to 2.1. What,s up with that 2.1 is way old man. When activated i get this error “Cannot load wbp/wbp.php.”
Hello Jonathan,
That error is weird, can you please upload an screenshot elsewhere and copy the link here?
I do use in a bunch of installations (WP 2.5, 2.1, 2.7, and the last one).
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Some kind of error:
“http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Erasmus-Lietuva-Italija
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Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in /home/ramulis/xxx.tikra.info/wp-includes/post.php on line 1443
Adding Finito tutto! Fiesta!”
Hello,
In some installation I got that warning and I can’t figure out why, I can fix it by adding @ before call the add post function, but I want to understand why I got that error, do you have any idea?
I had the same problem, and your fix worked for removing the error message at least, thanks!
I did find this brief thread that at least gives some hint on the cause:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/235068#post-958622
Tie your function to a hook, so the rewrite rules can be populated before your function runs:
add_action(’init’,'myfunction’);
I could not get that to work for me because my function call generating the error is inside a class.
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