“Flickomatic Automatic Post Generator for WordPress Help”

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Plugin requirements:

PHP DOM -> how to install it (if you don't have it, but probably you already have it): http://php.net/manual/en/dom.setup.php
PHP 5.5

Wordpress installation - top

Youtube video tutorial:

I also provided a Quick Install Guide to feature an easy plugin installation for everyone.

To make this plugin work, first, you'll need to install the plugin. The easiest method is to take the .zip file you've downloaded and upload it via Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin in the WordPress Dashboard. Once the plugin is installed, be sure to Activate it.

Now that you've installed and activated the plugin, you'll see a new menu item created inside WordPress called 'Flickomatic Automatic Post Generator'. First thing first, let's head over to Settings > Flickomatic Automatic Post Generator and take a look at what options are available.

Plugin Settings - top

Refreshingly, Flickomatic Automatic Post Generator has a super-simple settings screen. Let's look at first at the settings panel:

Here you can find the steps needed in configuring your plugin even if you have no HTML knowledge at all. You can find options for:

HINT! Don't forget to click the Save button every time you modified your settings, otherwise the modifications will be lost!

Main Settings:

• Flickomatic Automatic Post Generator Main Switch: Enable or disable the Flickomatic Automatic Post Generator. This acts like a main switch.
• Flickr App ID: Insert your Flickr App ID. You can get one here.
• Flickr App Secret: Insert your Flickr App Secret. You can get one here.
• Enable OG Meta Tags: Choose if you want to add Open Graph meta tags to your generated pages (this feature will improve page sharing experience on Flickr).
• Strip Links From Generated Post Content: Choose if you want to strip links from the generated post content.
• Show Extended Item Information Metabox in Post: Choose if you want to show an extended information metabox under every plugin generated post.
• Enable Logging for Rules: Do you want to enable logging for rules?
• Enable Detailed Logging for Rules: Do you want to enable detailed logging for rules? Note that this will dramatically increase the size of the log this plugin generates.
• Automatically Clear Logs After: Choose if you want to automatically clear logs after a period of time.
• Timeout for Rule Running (seconds): Set the timeout (in seconds) for every rule running. I recommend that you leave this field at it's default value (3600).
• Send Rule Running Summary in Email: Choose if you want to receive a summary of the rule running in an email.
• Email Address: Input the email adress where you want to send the report. You can input more email addresses, separated by commas.
• Video Embed Height: Set the embed height for the videos.
• Video Embed Width: Set the embed width for the videos.
• Minimum Title Word Count: Set the minimum word count for post titles. Items that have less than this count will not be published. To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Maximum Title Word Count: Set the maximum word count for post titles. Items that have more than this count will not be published. To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Minimum Content Word Count: Set the minimum word count for post content. Items that have less than this count will not be published. To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Maximum Content Word Count: Set the maximum word count for post content. Items that have more than this count will not be published. To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Banned Words List: Do not include posts that's title or content contains at least one of these words. Separate words by comma. To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Required Words List: Do not include posts that's title or content does not contain at least one of these words. Separate words by comma. To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Strip HTML Elements from Final Content by ID: Strip HTML elements from final content that have this IDs. You can insert more IDs, separeted by comma. To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Strip HTML Elements from Final Content by Class: Strip HTML elements from final content that have this class. You can insert more classes, separeted by comma. To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Flickr Post Types to Skip: Skip these Flickr post types when inserting blog posts. Valid values are: link, status, photo, video, event, offer. Separate multiple entries by comma. Ex: 'status, offer, link'. To disable this feature, leave this textfield blank. For more info about Flickr post types, check plugin documentation.
• Automatically Translate Content To: Do you want to automatically translate generated content using Google Translate?
• Skip Posts That Do Not Have Images: Choose if you want to skip posts that do not have images.
• Skip Posts Older Than a Selected Date: Choose if you want to skip posts that are older than a selected date.
• Choose if you want to skip posts that are older than a selected date. Select the date prior which you want to skip posts.
• Spin Text Using Word Synonyms: Do you want to randomize text by changing words of a text with synonyms using one of the listed methods? Note that this is an experimental feature and can in some instances drastically increase the rule running time!
• First List of Possible Sentences (%%random_sentence%%): Insert some sentences from which you want to get one at random. You can also use variables defined below. %something ==> is a variable. Each sentence must be sepparated by a new line.
• Second List of Possible Sentences (%%random_sentence2%%): Insert some sentences from which you want to get one at random. You can also use variables defined below. %something ==> is a variable. Each sentence must be sepparated by a new line.
• List of Possible Variables: Insert some variables you wish to be exchanged for different instances of one sentence. Please format this list as follows:Variablename => Variables (seperated by semicolon)Example:adjective => clever;interesting;smart;huge;astonishing;unbelievable;nice;adorable;beautiful;elegant;fancy;glamorous;magnificent;helpful;awesome
• Custom HTML Code #1: Insert a custom HTML code that will replace the %%custom_html%% variable. This can be anything, even an Ad code.
• Custom HTML Code #2: Insert a custom HTML code that will replace the %%custom_html2%% variable. This can be anything, even an Ad code.
• ID (Affiliate Keyword Replacer Tool Settings:) This is the ID of the rule.
• DEL (Affiliate Keyword Replacer Tool Settings:) Do you want to delete this rule?
• Search Keyword (Affiliate Keyword Replacer Tool Settings:) This keyword will be replaced with a link you define.
• Replacement Keyword (Affiliate Keyword Replacer Tool Settings:) This keyword will replace the search keyword you define. Leave this field blank if you only want to add an URL to the specified keyword.
• Link To Add (Affiliate Keyword Replacer Tool Settings:) Define the link you want to appear the defined keyword. Leave this field blank if you only want to replace the specified keyword without linking from it.

Flickr to Posts Settings Screen:

• ID This is the ID of the rule.
• Query Parameter Input your desired query. A free text search. Photos who's title, description or tags contain the text will be returned. You can exclude results that match a term by prepending it with a - character. WARNING! The photos on Flickr are owned by the users. In a case like this you would have to get permission from the owners of the photo, the people who posted them, because they might be the ones that could file a lawsuit. I strongly suggest asking the actual owner/photographers for permission first.
• User ID The NSID of the user who's photo to search. If this parameter isn't passed then everybody's public photos will be searched. Get the userID from here. To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Schedule (Hours) Select the interval in hours after which you want this rule to run.
• Max Posts At A Time Select the maximum number of posts that this rule can create at once. 0-50 interval allowed..
• Del: Do you want to delete this rule?
• Post Status: Select the status that you want for the automatically generated posts to have.
• Item Type : Select the type (post/page) for your automatically generated item.
• Post Author :  Select the author that you want to assign for the automatically generated posts.
• Active: Do you want to enable this rule? You can deactivate any rule (you don't have to delete them to deactivate them).
• Info: The number of items (posts, pages) this rule has generated so far.
• Actions: Do you want to run this rule now? Note that only one instance of a rule is allowed at once.

Advanced Settings Screen:

• Generated Post Title: Set the title of the generated posts for user rules. You can use the following shortcodes: %%random_sentence%%, %%random_sentence2%%, %%item_title%%, %%item_description%%, %%item_content%%, %%item_cat%%, %%item_tags%%
• Generated Post Content: Set the content of the generated posts for user rules. You can use the following shortcodes: %%custom_html%%, %%custom_html2%%, %%random_sentence%%, %%random_sentence2%%, %%item_title%%, %%item_description%%, %%item_content%%, %%item_content_plain_text%%, %%item_read_more_button%%, %%item_show_image%%, %%item_image_URL%%, %%author%%, %%author_link%%, %%facebook_like_button%%, %%item_url%%, %%item_cat%%, %%item_tags%%. More details about these see below.
• Search for Tags: Do you want to search for tags? A comma-delimited list of tags. Photos with one or more of the tags listed will be returned. You can exclude results that match a term by prepending it with a - character.
• Tags Search Mode: Either 'any' for an OR combination of tags, or 'all' for an AND combination. Defaults to 'any' if not specified.
• Photo License: The license id for photos to be searched.
• Search Results Order: The order in which to sort returned photos. Deafults to date-posted-desc (unless you are doing a radial geo query, in which case the default sorting is by ascending distance from the point specified).
• Area Bounding Box: A comma-delimited list of 4 values defining the Bounding Box of the area that will be searched. Format: Location1X, Location1Y, Location2X, Location2Y. The 4 values represent the bottom-left corner of the box and the top-right corner, minimum_longitude, minimum_latitude, maximum_longitude, maximum_latitude. Longitude has a range of -180 to 180 , latitude of -90 to 90. Defaults to -180, -90, 180, 90 if not specified. Unlike standard photo queries, geo (or bounding box) queries will only return 250 results per page. Geo queries require some sort of limiting agent in order to prevent the database from crying. This is basically like the check against 'parameterless searches' for queries without a geo component. A tag, for instance, is considered a limiting agent as are user defined min_date_taken and min_date_upload parameters ' If no limiting factor is passed we return only photos added in the last 12 hours (though we may extend the limit in the future). Get the coordinates from Google Maps. To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Area Bounding Accuracy: Recorded accuracy level of the location information.
• Machine Tags Query: Aside from passing in a fully formed machine tag, there is a special syntax for searching on specific properties :Find photos using the 'dc' namespace : "dc:".Find photos with a title in the 'dc' namespace : "dc:title=".Find photos titled "mr. camera" in the 'dc' namespace : "dc:title=\"mr. camera\".Find photos whose value is "mr. camera" : "*:*=\"mr. camera\"".Find photos that have a title, in any namespace : "*:title=".Find photos that have a title, in any namespace, whose value is "mr. camera" : "*:title=\"mr. camera\"".Find photos, in the 'dc' namespace whose value is "mr. camera" : "dc:*=\"mr. camera\"".Multiple machine tags may be queried by passing a comma-separated list. The number of machine tags you can pass in a single query depends on the tag mode (AND or OR) that you are querying with. "AND" queries are limited to (16) machine tags. "OR" queries are limited to (8).
• Generated Post Format: If your template supports "Post Formats", than you can select one here. If not, leave this at it\'s default value.
• Machine Tags Search Mode: Either 'any' for an OR combination of tags, or 'all' for an AND combination. Defaults to 'any' if not specified.
• Media Type: Select the media type you want to search.
• Has Geotagging: Select if the media should have geotagging or not.
• Query Latitude: A valid latitude, in decimal format, for doing radial geo queries.
• Query Longitude: A valid longitude, in decimal format, for doing radial geo queries.
• Query Radius: A valid radius used for geo queries, greater than zero and less than 20 miles (or 32 kilometers), for use with point-based geo queries. The default value is 5 (km).
• Radius Units: The unit of measure when doing radial geo queries. Valid options are "mi" (miles) and "km" (kilometers). The default is "km".
• Group ID: The id of a group whos pool to search. If specified, only matching photos posted to the group's pool will be returned. Get the ID of the group from here.
• Location ID: A 32-bit identifier that uniquely represents spatial entities. (not used if "Area Bounding Box" argument is present). To disable this feature, leave this field blank. Get the location ID here (under the WOEID entry): here
• Search Only Commons Content: Limit the scope of the search to only photos that are part of the Flickr Commons project. Default is false.
• Search Only Gallery Content: Limit the scope of the search to only photos that are in a gallery? Default is false, search all photos.
• Search Only Getty Content: Limit the scope of the search to only photos that are for sale on Getty. Default is false.
• Search Only Public Content: Limit the scope of the search to only photos that are marked as public. Default is false.
• Additional Post Category: Select the post category that you want for the automatically generated posts to have.
• Automatically Add Post Categories From Items: Do you want to automatically add post categories from the feed items?
• Automatically Add Post Tags From Items: Do you want to automatically add post tags from the feed items?
• Additional Post Tags: Select the post tags that you want for the automatically generated posts to have.
• Enable Comments For Generated Posts: Do you want to enable comments for the generated posts?
• Enable Pingbacks/Trackbacks For Generated Posts: Do you want to enable pingbacks and trackbacks for the generated posts?
• Automatically Get Featured Image for Generated Post: Do you want to set featured image for generated post (to the first image that was found in the post)?
• Default Featured Image if No Image Available for Item: Insert a link to a valid image that will be set for the featured image for the posts that do not have a valid image attached or if you disabled automatical featured image generation. To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Remove Emojis from Content: Do you want to strip emojis from the generated post content?
• Import Comments: Do you want to automatically generate post comments from item's comments feed?

Posts To Flickr Settings Screen:

• Flickomatic Automatic Post to Flickr Main Switch: Enable or disable automatic posting to Flickr every time you publish a new post (manually or automatically).
• Flickr Post Title Template: Choose the template of your Flickr post titles. You can use the following shortcodes: %%featured_image%%, %%post_cats%%, %%post_tags%%, %%blog_title%%, %%author_name%%, %%post_link%%, %%post_title%%, %%post_content%%, %post_excerpt%%
• Flickr Post Message Template: Choose the template of your Flickr posts. You can use the following shortcodes: %%featured_image%%, %%post_cats%%, %%post_tags%%, %%blog_title%%, %%author_name%%, %%post_link%%, %%post_title%%, %%post_content%%, %post_excerpt%%
• Manual Add Tags: Input the tags list you want to manually add to the post on Flickr.
• Also Add Post Tags: Do you want to also automatically add post tags?
• Is Public Post: Do you want to set the post as public post?
• Is Friend Post: Do you want to set the post as friend post?
• Is Family Post: Do you want to set the post as family post?
• Disable Autoposting of 'Posts': Do you want to disable automatically posting of WordPress 'posts' to Flickr?
• Disable Autoposting of 'Pages': Do you want to disable automatically posting of WordPress 'pages' to Flickr?
• Disable Autoposting of Selected Categories: Do you want to disable automatically posting of WordPress 'posts' to Flickr?
• Disable Autoposting of Selected Tags: Input the tags for which you want to disable posting. You can enter more tags, separated by comma. Ex: cars, vehicles, red, luxury. To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Post Only Local Media: Do you want to post only local media (that reside on your host)?

Activity and Loggind Screen:

• Rules Currently Running: These rules are currently running on your server.
• Restore Plugin Default Settings: Hit this button and the plugin settings will be restored to their default values. Warning! All settings will be lost!
• Delete All Posts Generated by this Plugin: Hit this button and all posts generated by this plugin will be deleted!
• Activity Log: This is the main log of your plugin. Here will be listed every single instance of the rules you run or are automatically run by schedule jobs (if you enable logging, in the plugin configuration).

How to customize resulting posts with built in shortcodes?

You can use the following shortcodes in post title and content editing:

• %%random_sentence%% - generates a random sentence (as you have defined them in plugin config.) More on how to configure the random sentence generator, check plugin documentation (down)
• %%random_sentence2%% - generates a random sentence (from the second geenrator) (as you have defined them in plugin config.) More on how to configure the random sentence generator, check plugin documentation (down)
• %%custom_html%% - includes the custom HTML you defined in the Main Settings interface (Custom HTML Code #1:)
• %%custom_html2%% - includes the custom HTML you defined in the Main Settings interface (Custom HTML Code #2:)
• %%item_title%% - includes the item title
• %%item_description%% - includes a short description of the article
• %%item_content%% - includes the item full HTML content
• %%item_content_plain_text%% - includes the items plain text content
• %%item_image_URL%% - includes the article's image URL (if it exists)
• %%item_url%% - includes the article's URL
• %%post_image_embed%% - embeds the posts image in the content
• %%pin_domain%% - outputs the domain name of the pin
• %%likesCount%% - outputs the like count of the original pin
• %%commentsCount%% - outputs the comment count of the original pin
• %%repinCount%% - outputs the repin count of the original pin
• %%pin_link%% - outputs the link of the original pin
• %%board_url%% - outputs the board url of the original pin
• %%board_name%% - outputs the board name of the original pin
• %%board_image%% - outputs the board image of the original pin
• %%author_image%% - outputs the author image of the original pin
• %%author_user_name%% - outputs the author user name of the original pin
• %%item_cat%% - includes the article's category (if it exists)
• %%item_read_more_button%% - includes a 'Read More' button, pointing to the facebook post from which the article was generated
• %%item_show_image%% - includes the item image in the HTML page (the full image, not only it's URL)
• %%item_show_video%% - includes the video image in the HTML page (the full video, not only it's URL)
• %%item_show_media%% - includes the video or if it is not available, then the image in the HTML page (the full video or image, not only it's URL)
• %%author%% - includes the Flickr post's author's name
• %%author_link%% - includes the Flickr post's author's URL (on Flickr)
• %%item_tags%% - includes the article's tag (if it exists)

How to work with 'Random Sentence Generator'?

You can use the Random Sentence Generator by inserting list of sentences to the 'First List of Possible Sentences (%%random_sentence%%)' text field. Here, you can add full sentences, or sentences with variables. Variables are structured as: %something. A possible list of sentences can be:

• Meet this %adjective %noun %sentence_ending
• This is the %adjective %noun ever%sentence_ending
• I %love_it %nouns , because they are the %adjective %sentence_ending
• My %family says this plugin is very %adjective %sentence_ending
• These %nouns are quite %adjective %sentence_ending

You can define variables in the 'List of Possible Variables:' textfield. Here you can define values to variables, values which will be used in the random sentence forming. Variables can be defined as follows:

variable_name1 => variable_value1;variable_value2;variable_value3

variable_name2 => variable2_value1;variable2_value2;variable2_value3

You can also use variables in variable definition. Example:

noun_with_adjective => %noun;%adjective %noun

An example of variable definition:

adjective_very => %adjective;very %adjective;

adjective => clever;interesting;smart;huge;astonishing;unbelievable;nice;adorable;beautiful;elegant;fancy;glamorous;magnificent;helpful;awesome

noun_with_adjective => %noun;%adjective %noun

noun => plugin;WordPress plugin;item;ingredient;component;constituent;module;add-on;plug-in;addon;extension

nouns => plugins;WordPress plugins;items;ingredients;components;constituents;modules;add-ons;plug-ins;addons;extensions

love_it => love;adore;like;be mad for;be wild about;be nuts about;be crazy about

family => %adjective %family_members;%family_members

family_members => grandpa;brother;sister;mom;dad;grandma

sentence_ending => .;!;!!

These random sentences can be used in post titles or post content, by adding the %%random_sentence%% or %%random_sentence2%% shortcode.

Available shortcode

Available shortcodes: Available shortcodes: [flickomatic-media] to include an Flickr media (photo or video), [flickomatic-save-button] to add a 'Save' button to your page, [flickomatic-follow-button] to add a 'Follow' button to your page, [flickomatic-embed-pin] to embed a pin to your page, [flickomatic-embed-board] to embed a board to your page, [flickomatic-embed-user] to embed a user profile to your page. Usage: [flickomatic-media url="Flickr post URL"], [flickomatic-save-button type="any" round="yes" tall="yes" description="cool content"], [flickomatic-follow-button username="sfatfarma" fullname="SfatFarma"], [flickomatic-embed-pin pinid="99360735500167749" pinsize="small" hidedescription="yes"], [flickomatic-embed-board url="https://www.flickr.com/flickr/official-news/" size="square"], [flickomatic-embed-profile username="sfatfarma" size="header"]

Summary - top

Flickomatic Automatic Post Generator is a simple, yet powerful tool you can use to create an autoblog with ease. The setup and settings of the plugin couldn't have been easier. Now, let's go and enjoy the results of this great plugin! Have fun using it!

Sources and Credits - top

This component was made by Szabi CodeRevolution, for more information and support contact us at support@coderevolution.ro

Once again, thank you so much for purchasing this item. As I said at the beginning, I'd be glad to help you if you have any questions regarding this plugin and I'll do my best to assist.

CodeRevolution

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