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This plugin will allow you to build from scratch an autoblogging system, based on Webz.io as a content source and Google Trends as a hot keyword source.
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 news. 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:
Trendomatic Webz.io Post Generator will import articles/blogs/reviews/e-commerce products from any website that was crawled by Webz.io service. 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 marketplace items
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 variaty 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 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
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 'Trendomatic Webz.io Post Generator'. First thing first, let's head over to Settings > Trendomatic Webz.io Post Generator and take a look at what options are available.
Refreshingly, Trendomatic Webz.io 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:
Trendomatic Webz.io Post Generator Main Switch: Enable or disable the Trendomatic Webz.io Post Generator. This acts like a main switch.
Webz.io API Key: Insert your Webz.io API Key. Learn how to get one here.
Copy Images From Content Locally: Click this option if your want to save images found in post content locally. Note that this option may be heavy on your hosting free space..
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.
Verify Featured Images If Not Corrupt: .Click this option if your want to check images if they are not corrupt. If you have issues with featured image generation, uncheck this option.
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. This feature only works if you leave 'Do Not Copy Featured Image Locally' checkbox unchecked.
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. This feature only works if you leave 'Do Not Copy Featured Image Locally' checkbox unchecked.
Disable Automatic Excerpt Generation: Disable excerpt automatic generation for resulting blog posts.
Add Attributes to Internal Links: Input the attributes you want to set for each internal link from content.
Add Attributes to External Links: Input the attributes you want to set for each external link from content.
Replace All URLs from Content With This URL: Do you want to replace all URLs from generated posts content with this predefined URL?
Delay Between Rule Running: Define a number of seconds the plugin should wait between the rule running. Use this to not decrease the use of your server's resources. Leave blank to disable.
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.
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.
Automatically Translate Content To: Do you want to automatically translate generated content using Google Translate?
Do Not Continue Importing Posts If Google Trends Fails: Select if you want to continue importing posts if Google Trends call was unsuccessful.
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.
Rules List Settings Screen:
ID: This is the ID of the rule.
Query String: A string query containing the filters that define which posts will be returned. Example: Find any posts containing either bitcoin or Zcash: (bitcoin OR Zcash). You can also input filters. Ex: (name:smartwatch OR name:"smart watch"), (language:french OR language:italian), (description:wireless AND description:charger), (section_title:wear), brand:gopro, price:<300, offer_price:<300, in_stock:true, on_sale:true, categories:computers, (site:walmart.com OR site:ebay.com), country:DE, best_rating:5, aggregated_rating:>3.5, worst_rating:1, reviews_count:>10. Full filter reference: here. Info about syntax: here.
Use Google Trends: Use Google Trends to get automatically keywords? You can configure this process in the rule's 'Settings'.
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:
Use Enriched API (nseFilter endpoint: Checking this checkbox will switch the plugin from using the filterWebContent API endpoint to using the nseFilter API endpoint from webz.io
Google Trends Category: Select the category where you want to search Google Trends.
Google Trends Period: Select the time period in days, from when you want to return the Google Trends.
Google Trends Search Words: Set the search word(s) for Google Trends to base search upon. Multiple words should be separated by comma.
Google Trends Language: Select the language you want to use for Google Trends.
Google Trends Country: Select the country you want to use for Google Trends.
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_img_url%%, %%item_url%%, %%item_cat%%, %%item_tags%%
Sort Results By: Select how you want to sort results. By default the results are sorted by the recommended order of crawl date.
Import Starting From: Return results that were crawled after this timestamp. You can input a date or you can describe it in natural language. Ex: '3 days ago'.
Categories To Remove: Input a list of categories that you want to remove from the list of automatic categories. Input more categories, separated by comma. Ex: remove1, remove2, remove3
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?
Remove WP Default Post Category: This feature will try to remove the WordPress's default post category. This may fail in case no additional categories are added, because WordPress requires at least one post category for every post.
Get Post Publish Date From Feed: Do you want to to set the post published date as the date grabbed from the feed article? If you disable this feature, the date when the rule is run will be used.
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.
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.
Strip Images From Post Content: Do you want to strip images from generated post content?
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.
Limit Article Word Count: Set the maximum word count for the article. If you set this value, a "Read More" link will be automatically appended to the end of the article for articles that where shortened. To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
Automatically Translate Content To: Do you want to automatically translate generated content using Google Translate?
Hide Google Translate Popup: Do you want to hide the Google Translate Popup that shows when hovering on the resulting translated text, containing the original text before translation?
'Read More' Button Text: Set the text to be shown for the 'Read More' link. If you leave this field blank, the global setting will take effect, defined in the plugin's 'Main Settings' -> ''Read More' Button Text'.
Automatically Delete Post: Do you want to automatically delete generated posts after a period of time? To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
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
%%item_cat%% - includes the article's category (if it exists)
%%item_show_image%% - will display the image
%%domain_rank%% - will display the domain rank of the original article
%%facebook_likes%% - will display the facebook like count of the original article
%%facebook_comments%% - will display the facebook comment count of the original article
%%facebook_shares%% - will display the facebook share count of the original article
%%gplus_shares%% - will display the google plus share count of the original article
%%pinterest_shares%% - will display the pinterest share count of the original article
%%linkedin_shares%% - will display the linkedin share count of the original article
%%stumbledupon_shares%% - will display the stumbleupon share count of the original article
%%vk_shares%% - will display the vk share count of the original article
%%ord_in_thread%% - will display the ordinal in thread of the original article
%%language%% - will display the language of the original article
%%rating%% - will display the rating of the original article
%%source_site%% - will display the source webpage name
%%section_title%% - will display the section title on the source website
%%replies_count%% - will display the replies count of the article
%%participants_count%% - will display the participants count to the discussion on the article
%%site_type%% - will display the source website type
%%country%% - will display the article source country
%%spam_score%% - will display the spam score of the article
%%performance_score%% - will display the performance score of the article
%%item_pub_date%% - will display the item publication date
%%author%% - will display the item author name
%%author_link%% - will display the item author link
%%item_read_more_button%% - includes a 'Read More' button linking to the original article source
%%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:
Available shortcodes: [trendomatic-list-posts] to include a list that contains only posts imported by this plugin and [trendomatic-display-posts] to include a WordPress like post listing. Usage: [trendomatic-list-posts type='any/post/page/...', order='ASC/DESC', orderby='title/ID/author/name/date/rand/comment_count', posts=number_of_posts_to_show, category='posts_category', ruleid='ID_of_echo_rule'].
Example: [trendomatic-list-posts type='any', order='ASC', orderby='date', posts=50, category= '', ruleid='0']
Example 2: [trendomatic-display-posts include_excerpt='true' image_size='thumbnail' wrapper='div']
Available parameters for the [trendomatic-display-posts] shortcode:
author
Specify the post author
Default: empty
Example: [display-posts author="bill"]
category
Specify the category slug, or comma separated list of category slugs
Default: empty
Example: [display-posts category="fishing,hiking"]
category_display
Specify 'true' to display the categories the current post is in. Specify a taxonomy slug (e.g., 'post_tag') to list a different taxonomy
Default: empty
Example: [display-posts category_display="true"]
category_label
If using category_display, specify the label that appears before the list of categories.
Default: "Posted in: "
Example: [display-posts category_display="true" category_label="Categorized as: "]
content_class
Specify the class name used for the post content
Default: content
Example: [display-posts include_content="true" content_class="dps-listing-content"]
date_format
Specify the date format used when include_date is true. See Formatting Date and Time on the Codex for more information.
Default: '(n/j/Y)'
Example: [display-posts include_date="true" date_format="F j, Y"]
date
Specify a date to query for posts published that date.
Default: empty
Example: [display-posts date="2014-09-07"]
date_column
Specify which date column to use for all date queries.
Default: post_date
Example: [display-posts date="Yesterday" date_column="post_modified_date"]
date_compare
Specify the comparison operator used for all date queries.
Default: =
Example: [display-posts date="-1 year" date_compare=">"]
date_query_before
Specify the before argument for a date query.
Default: empty
Example: [display-posts date_query_before="2015-12-31" date_query_after="2015-01-01"]
date_query_after
Specify the after argument for a date query.
Default: empty
Example: [display-posts date_query_before="2015-12-31" date_query_after="2015-01-01"]
date_query_column
Specify the date column used for this query.
Default: post_date
Example: [display-posts date="Yesterday" date_query_column="post_modified_date"]
date_query_compare
Specify the comparison operator used for this query.
Default: =
Example: [display-posts date="-1 year" date_query_compare=">"]
excerpt_length
Specify the number of words used in an excerpt.
Default: empty (set by your theme)
Example: [display-posts include_excerpt="true" excerpt_length="20"]
excerpt_more
Specify the more text that appears after the excerpt.
Default: empty (set by your theme)
Example: [display-posts include_excerpt="true" excerpt_more="..."]
excerpt_more_link
Specify whether or not to link the excerpt_more text to the post
Default: false
Example: [display-posts include_excerpt="true" excerpt_more="Continue Reading" excerpt_more_link="true"]
exclude_current
Specify whether or not to exclude the current post from the query
Default: false
Example: [display-posts exclude_current="true" taxonomy="category" tax_term="current"]
id
Specify a specific post ID (or multiple post IDs) to display.
Default: empty
Example: [display-posts id="9, 10"]
ignore_sticky_posts
Specify whether or not to ignore sticky posts
Default: false
Example: [displa-posts ignore_sticky_posts="true"]
image_size
Specify an image size for displaying the featured image, if the post has one. The image_size can be set to echo_preview_image, thumbnail, medium, large (all controlled from Settings > Media), or a custom image size.
Default: empty
Example: [display-posts image_size="thumbnail"]
include_author
Specify whether or not to include the post's author name.
Default: false Example: [display-posts include_author="true"]
include_content
Specify whether or not to include the full post content. Note that [display-posts] will be stripped out of the content to prevent infinite loops
Default: false
Example:[display-posts include_content="true"]
include_date
Include the post's date after the post title. The default format is (7/30/12), but this can be customized using the 'date_format' parameter.
Default: empty
Example [display-posts include_date="true"]
include_excerpt
Include the post's excerpt after the title (and date if provided).
Default: empty
Example: [display-posts include_excerpt="true"]
include_title
Include the post's title
Default: true
Example: [display-posts include_title="false" image_size="thumbnail"]
meta_key
Specify a meta key, for meta queries or ordering
Default: empty
Example: [display-posts meta_key="price" orderby="meta_value_num" order="ASC"]
meta_value
Specify a meta value, for meta queries
Default: empty
Example: [display-posts meta_key="color" meta_value="blue"]
no_posts_message
Specify a message to display if no posts are found
Default: empty
Example: [display-posts category="on-sale" no_posts_message="Sorry, no items are currently on sale"]
offset
The number of posts to pass over
Default: 0
Example: [display-posts offset="3"]
order
Specify whether posts are ordered in descending order (DESC) or ascending order (ASC).
Default: DESC
Example: [display-posts order="ASC"]
orderby
Specify what the posts are ordered by. See the available parameters here.
Default: date
Example: [display-posts orderby="title"]
post_parent
Display the pages that are a child of a certain page. You can either specify an ID or 'current', which displays the children of the current page.
Default: empty
Example: [display-posts post_type="page" post_parent="8"]
post_status
Show posts associated with a certain post status
Default: publish
Example: [display-posts post_status="publish, future"]
post_type
Specify which post type to use. You can use a default one (post or page), or a custom post type you've created.
Default: post
Example: [display-posts post_type="event"]
posts_per_page
How many posts to display.
Default: 10
Example: [display-posts posts_per_page="5"]
tag
Display posts from a specific tag, or tags. You must use the tag slug(ex: example-tag), not the tag's name (ex: Example Tag).
Default: empty
Example: [display-posts tag="tag1, tag2"]
taxonomy, tax_term, and tax_operator
Use these parameters to do advanced taxonomy queries. Use 'taxonomy' for the taxonomy you'd like to query, 'tax_term' for the term slug (or terms) you'd like to include, and 'operator' to change how the query uses those terms (most likely this field will not be needed).
Default: 'taxonomy' = empty , 'tax_term' = empty , 'tax_operator' = 'IN'
Example: [display-posts taxonomy="color" tax_term="blue, green"]
time
Specify the time, to be used in a date query.
Default: empty
Example: [display-posts date="Yesterday" time="9:00am"]
title
Give the list of posts a title heading
Default: empty
Example: [display-posts title="Recent Posts"]
wrapper
What type of HTML should be used to display the listings. It can be an unordered list (ul), ordered list (ol), or divs (div) which you can then style yourself.
Default: ul
Example: [display-posts wrapper="ol"]
wrapper_class
Class applied to the wrapper tag for custom css formatting for this instance.
Default: display-posts-listing
Example: [display-posts wrapper="div" wrapper_class="my-grid-layout"]
wrapper_id
Specify an unique ID to be used on the wrapper of this listing
Default: empty
Example: [display-posts category="cars" wrapper_id="cars-listing"]
Trendomatic Webz.io Post Generator is a simple, yet powerful tool you can use to create a profitable affiliate marketing webpage. 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!
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.