“Quoramatic - Questions and Answers Post Generator for WordPress” Help by CodeRevolution

---

“Quoramatic - Questions and Answers Post Generator for WordPress Help”

---

Table of Contents

1. About the plugin
2. WordPress installation
3. Plugin Settings
4. Summary
5. Sources and Credits

---

About this plugin - top

This plugin will allow you to build from scratch an autoblogging system using questions and answers from Quora, based on queries you define. This plugin provides one solution to the ongoing search for new blog content. It not only provides a steady stream of rich, searchable content, it also helps to keep your website up to date with the latest questions and answers from Quora. You can build rules that will generate posts that are near to unique in website crawlers's eyes. They require none to very little customization.
The goal is to achieve the following:
Quoramatic - Questions and Answers Post Generator will import questions and their top answers from Quora. Resulting blog posts are fully customizable and rich in content. List of customizable stuff for each post:

• post author user name
• post status (published, draft, pending, private, trash)
• automatically generate post categories or tags from posts
• manually add post categories or tags to items
• generate post or page or any other custom post type
• automatically generate a featured image for the post
• enable/disable comments for the generated post
• enable/disable pingbacks/trackbacks for the generated post
• customize post title and content (with the included wide variety of relevant post shortcodes)

Other plugin features:

• Google Translate support ' select the language in which you want to post your articles
• Text Spinner support ' automatically modify generated text, changing words with their synonyms ' great SEO value!
• Keyword Replacer (replace relevant keywords with your links)
• Random sentence generator (relevant sentences - as you define them)
• detailed plugin activity logging
• scheduled rule runs

---

Plugin requirements:

PHP curl

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 'Quoramatic - Questions and Answers Post Generator'. First thing first, let's head over to Settings > Quoramatic - Questions and Answers Post Generator and take a look at what options are available.

Plugin Settings - top

Refreshingly, Quoramatic - Questions and Answers 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:

• Quoramatic - Questions and Answers Post Generator Main Switch: Enable or disable the Quoramatic - Questions and Answers Post Generator. This acts like a main switch.
• Do Not Check For Duplicate Posts: Choose if you want to skip checking for duplicate posts when publishing new posts (check this if you have 10000+ posts on your blog and you are experiencing slowdows when the plugin is running. If you check this, duplicate posts will be posted! So use it only when it is necesarry.
• Do Not Check Generated Posts In Rule Settings: Check this to force the plugin not check generated posts in rule settings. Improves performance if you have 100k posts generated using this plugin.
• Draft Posts First, And Publish Them Afterwards: Check this to force the plugin to make draft posts before they would be fully published. This can help you you use other third party plugins with the automatically published posts.
• Allow Custom Ciphers In Curl Requests: This is a debug feature (experimental). Input a cipher list, if you get this (or similar) error in curl requests: 'gnutls_handshake() failed: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.'
• Secret Word Used For Manual/Cron Running: Select a secret word that will be used when you run the plugin manually/by cron. See details about this below.
• Strip Links From Generated Post Content: Choose if you want to strip links from the generated post content.
• Do Not Check For Duplicate Posts: Choose if you want to skip checking for duplicate posts when publishing new posts (check this if you have 10000+ posts on your blog and you are experiencing slowdows when the plugin is running. If you check this, duplicate posts will be posted! So use it only when it is necesarry.
• 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.
• User-Agent To Use When Getting Web Pages: Set the user-agent to use when downloading web pages.
• Web Proxy Address: If you want to use a proxy to crawl webpages, input it's address here. Required format: IP Address/URL:port
• Web Proxy Authentification: If you want to use a proxy to crawl webpages, and it requires authentification, input it's authentification details here. Required format: username:password
• Link Generated Post Titles To Source Articles: Select if you want to link generated post titles to source articles. This option will be overwritten if you set it also from rule settings.
• Shorte.st API Token: If you wish to shorten outgoing links using shorte.st, please enter your API token here. To sign up for a new account, click here. To get your API token after you have signed up, click here. To disable URL shortening, leave this field blank.
• Date Format for the %%item_date%% Shortcode: Set the date format for the %item_date% shortcode. Example: Y-m-d H:i:s . You can read more about date formats, here. To leave this at it's default value, leave this field blank.
• 'Read More' Button Text: Set the 'Read More' button text. This button is generated using the %%item_read_more_button%% shortcode. If you leave this field blank, the default value is 'Read More'.
• Google Translator API Key (Optional): If you wish to use the official version of the Google Translator API for translation, you must enter first a Google API Key. Get one here. Please enable the 'Cloud Translation API' in Google Cloud Console. Translation will work even without even without entering an API key here, but in this case, an unofficial Google Translate API will be used.
• Skip Posts That Did Not Translate Correctly: Choose if you want to import also posts that were not translated correctly - they will be imported in original language. If you check this, posts that failed translation will be not imported.
• Keep Original Link Source After Translation: Do you want to keep original link sources after translation? If you uncheck this, links will point to Google Translate version of the linked website.
• Do Not Spin Title: Do you want to not spin title (only content)?
• Excluded Word List (For Built-In Spinner and SpinRewriter) Select a list of comma separated words that you do not wish to spin (for built-in spinners and SpinRewriter).
• 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.
• Post Types to Skip: Skip these 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 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.
• Do Not Copy Featured Image Locally: Click this option if your want to set the featured image from the remote image location. This settings can save disk space, but beware that if the remote image gets deleted, your featured image will also be broken.
• Strip Featured Image From Generated Post Content: Choose if you want to strip featured image from the generated post content.
• Featured Image Resize Width: Resize the image that was assigned to be the featured image to the width specified in this text field (in pixels). If you want to disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Featured Image Resize Height: Resize the image that was assigned to be the featured image to the height specified in this text field (in pixels). If you want to disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• MorgueFile App ID: Insert your MorgueFile App ID. Register here. Learn how to get an API key here. If you enter an API Key and an API Secret, you will enable search for images using the MorgueFile API.
• MorgueFile App Secret: Insert your MorgueFile App Secret. Register here. Learn how to get an API key here. If you enter an API Key and an API Secret, you will enable search for images using the MorgueFile API.
• Pexels App ID: Insert your Pexels App ID. Learn how to get an API key here. If you enter an API Key and an API Secret, you will enable search for images using the Pexels API.
• Flickr App ID: Insert your Flickr App ID. Learn how to get an API key here. If you enter an API Key and an API Secret, you will enable search for images using the Flickr API.
• 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).
• Pixabay App ID: Insert your Pixabay App ID. Learn how to get one here. If you enter an API Key here, you will enable search for images using the Pixabay API.
• Image Types To Search: Filter results by image type.
• Results Order: Order results by a predefined rule.
• Image Category: Filter results by image category.
• Image Min Width: Minimum image width.
• Image Max Width: Minimum image height.
• Safe Search: A flag indicating that only images suitable for all ages should be returned.
• Editor's Choice: Select images that have received an Editor's Choice award.
• Filter Language: Specify default language for regional content.
• Enable Unsplash API Usage: Select if you want to enable usage of the Unsplash API for getting images.
• Enable Pixabay Direct Website Scraping: Select if you want to enable direct scraping of Pixabay website. This will generate different results from the API.
• Image Types To Search: Filter results by image type.
• Image Orientation: Filter results by image orientation.
• Results Order: Order results by a predefined rule.
• Image Category: Filter results by image category.
• Image Min Width: Minimum image width.
• Image Min Height: Maximum image height.
• Royalty Free Image Attribution Text (%%royalty_free_image_attribution%%): Please set a the image attribution shortcode value. You can use this value, using the %%image_attribution%% shortcode, in 'Prepend Content With' and 'Append Content With' settings fields. You can use the following shortcodes, in this settings field: %%image_source_name%%, %%image_source_website%%, %%image_source_url%%. These will be updated automatically for the respective image source, from where the imported image is from. This will replace the %%royalty_free_image_attribution%% shortcode, in 'Generated Post Content' settings field.
• Enable broad image search: Do you want to enable broad search for royalty free images?
• Do Not Use Original Image If No Free Image Found: Do you want to not use article's original image if no royalty free image found for the post?
• PhantomJS Path On Server: Set the path on your local server of the phantomjs executable. If you leave this field blank, the default 'phantomjs' call will be used.
• Timeout for PhantomJs Execution: Set the timeout (in milliseconds) for every phantomjs running. I recommend that you leave this field at it's default value (15000). If you leave this field blank, the default value will be used.
• 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.

Quora To Posts:

• ID This is the ID of the rule.
• Quora Search Query Select the search query for Quora.
• 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 Plugin Settings Dropdown Screen:

•  
• Remember Last Posted Item And Continue Search From It Do you want to remember last posted item and continue search from it the next time the importing rule runs?
• 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%%, %%item_show_image%%, %%item_image_URL%%, %%author%%, %%author_link%%
• Generated Post Content: Set the content of the generated posts for user rules. You can use the following shortcodes: %%item_read_more_button%%, %%item_media%%, %%custom_html%%, %%custom_html2%%, %%random_sentence%%, %%random_sentence2%%, %%item_date%%, %%item_media%%, %%item_title%%, %%item_description%%, %%item_content%%, %%item_content_plain_text%%, %%royalty_free_image_attribution%%, %%item_url%%, %%item_cat%%, %%item_tags%%, %%item_show_image%%, %%item_image_URL%%, %%author%%, %%author_link%%
• Strip Images From Content: Do you want to strip images from generated content?
• Limit Title Word Count: Do you want to limit the title's lenght to a specific word count? To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Limit Content Word Count: Do you want to limit the content's lenght to a specific word count? To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Run Regex On Content: Run regex on post content. To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Replace Matches From Regex (Content): Replace the above regex matches with this regex expression. If you want to strip matched content, leave this field blank.
• Disable Post Excerpt: Do you want to disable post excerpt generation?
• Get Post Publish Date From Item: Do you want to to set the post published date as the date grabbed from the article? If you disable this feature, the date when the rule is run will be used.
• Generated Post Format: If your template supports "Post Formats", than you can select one here. If not, leave this at it\'s default value.
• 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?
• Post Custom Fields: Set the custom fields that will be set for generated posts. The syntax for this field is the following: custom_field_name1 => custom_field_value1, custom_field_name2 => custom_field_value2, ... . In custom_field_valueX, you can use shortcodes, same like in post content. Example (without quotes): 'title_custom_field => %%item_title%%'. You can use the following shortcodes: %%item_read_more_button%%, %%item_media%%, %%custom_html%%, %%custom_html2%%, %%random_sentence%%, %%random_sentence2%%, %%item_title%%, %%item_description%%, %%item_content%%, %%item_content_plain_text%%, %%royalty_free_image_attribution%%, %%item_url%%, %%item_cat%%, %%item_tags%%, %%item_show_image%%, %%item_image_URL%%, %%author%%, %%author_link%%
• Post Custom Taxonomies: Set the custom taxonomies that will be set for generated posts. The syntax for this field is the following: custom_taxonomy_name1 => custom_taxonomy_value1A, custom_taxonomy_value1B; custom_taxonomy_name2 => custom_taxonomy_value2A, custom_taxonomy_value2B; ... . In custom_taxonomy_valueX, you can use shortcodes. Example (without quotes): 'cats_taxonomy_field => %%item_title%%; tags_taxonomy_field => manualtax2, %%item_title%%'. You can use the following shortcodes: %%item_read_more_button%%, %%item_media%%, %%custom_html%%, %%custom_html2%%, %%random_sentence%%, %%random_sentence2%%, %%item_title%%, %%item_description%%, %%item_content%%, %%item_content_plain_text%%, %%royalty_free_image_attribution%%, %%item_url%%, %%item_cat%%, %%item_tags%%, %%item_show_image%%, %%item_image_URL%%, %%author%%, %%author_link%%
• 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)?
• Replace Article Image With Royalty Free Image: Do you want to replace the imported article's image with a royalty free image? Please note that for this feature to function you must configure the plugin (add API keys) in the plugin's 'Main Settings' menu -> 'Royalty Free Featured Image Importing Options' section.
• 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.
• Do Not Spin/Translate Posts Generated By This Rule: Do you want to skip spinning/translating of posts generated by this rule?
• Automatically Translate Content To: Do you want to automatically translate generated content using Google Translate? If set, this will overwrite the 'Automatically Translate Content To' option from plugin's 'Main Settings'.
• Translation Source Language: Do you want to automatically translate generated content using Google Translate? Here you can define the translation's source language. If set, this will overwrite the 'Automatically Translate Content To' option from plugin's 'Main Settings'.
• Set Custom Cookies For The Request: Select the cookie values you want to send with each request. The syntax for this field is the following: cookie_key1=cookie_value1; cookie_key2=cookie_value2 . To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Try to Get More Answer Content (Level 1): Do you want to try to get full article content from the linked URL? This will replace the content of the %%item_content%% shortcode.
• Use PhantomJs To Get More Answers (Level 2): Do you want to try to use PhantomJS to try to parse JavaScript from crawled pages (for pages that create dynamic content, on page load, using JavaScript)? Please note that for this to work, you must have PhantomJs installed on your server. You can configure the path to PhantomJS from your server, from plugin's 'Main Settings'.
• Phantomjs Wait Before Rendering Pages (ms): Set the number of milliseconds that phantomjs should wait before rendering pages (1000 ms = 1 sec).
• Max Number Of Answers to Add: Set the max number of answers to add.
• Multiple Answer Separator: Select the separator to use for multiple answers.
• Short Rule Description: Input a short description for the current rule. This will appear in the help for for the current rule, next to rule's ID. This field is not used in plugin's activity and running.

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_original_content%% - includes the original content of the article (in case full post content was grabbed)
• %%item_image_URL%% - includes the article's image URL (if it exists)
• %%item_url%% - includes the article's URL
• %%item_cat%% - includes the article's category (if it exists)
• %%item_read_more_button%% - includes a 'Read More' button, pointing to the 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)
• %%author%% - includes the post's author's name
• %%author_link%% - includes the post's author's URL (on )
• %%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.

Summary - top

Quoramatic - Questions and Answers 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

---