PDF to WordPress Automatic Post Generator

About this plugin

This plugin will allow you to build from scratch an autoblogging system, based on pdf files that you upload to your WordPress install, which will be used as article sources.
This plugin provides one solution to the ongoing search for new blog content. It not only provides a steady stream of rich, searchable content. 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:
Pdfomatic Automatic Post Generator will generate posts from an unlimited number of articles, imported from uploaded pdf files. 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 pdf file’s meta keywords
• manually add post categories or tags to items
• generate post or page
• 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:

• access pdf file meta info, like: title, keywords, author, creation date and more
• 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

WordPress installation

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 ‘Pdfomatic Automatic Post Generator’. First thing first, let’s head over to Settings > Pdfomatic Automatic Post Generator and take a look at what options are available.

Plugin Settings

Refreshingly, Pdfomatic 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:

• Pdfomatic Automatic Post Generator Main Switch: Enable or disable the Pdfomatic Automatic Post Generator. This acts like a main switch.
• Use Alternative Library For PDF Parsing: Check this checkbox if pdf is not imported correctly for you. This may fix you issue. This will disable image importing from pdf files.
• 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.
• Automatically Translate Content To: Do you want to automatically translate generated content using Google Translate?
• 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.

PDF Rules to Pages Settings Screen:

• Upload PDF: Upload a PDF file, so you can use it for importing.
• ID This is the ID of the rule.
• Pdf File Select the pdf file from which you want to import content from. You must upload the respective file first, using the file uploader from above.
• Extract From These Pages Input a range of pages that should be imported. If you want to extract the whole pdf content, leave this field blank. You can use also the ‘-‘ range operator. Ex: 1,2,3,4,10-20
• 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.
• 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:

• Generated Post Title: Set the title of the generated posts for user rules. You can use the following shortcodes: %%random_sentence%%, %%random_sentence2%%, %%custom_html%%, %%custom_html2%%, %%post_title%%, %%post_content%%, %%pdf_subject%%, %%pdf_keywords%%, %%pdf_creator%%, %%pdf_producer%%, %%pdf_creation_date%%, %%pdf_modified_date%%, %%pdf_page_count%%
• Generated Post Content: Set the content of the generated posts for user rules. You can use the following shortcodes: %%pdf_images%%, %%random_sentence%%, %%random_sentence2%%, %%custom_html%%, %%custom_html2%%, %%post_title%%, %%post_content%%, %%pdf_subject%%, %%pdf_keywords%%, %%pdf_creator%%, %%pdf_producer%%, %%pdf_creation_date%%, %%pdf_modified_date%%, %%pdf_page_count%%
• 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?
• 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.
• Run Regex On Content: Run regex on post content. To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Replace Matches From Regex: Replace the above regex matches with this regex expression. If you want to strip matched content, leave this field blank.
• 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?
• Auto Featured Image: Do you want to try to extract featured image from pdf document? This feature is available only if you don’t enable the ‘Alternative Library For PDF Parsing’ option in the Main Settings.
• Maximum Number Of Images: Select the maximum number of images to appear in the %%pdf_images%% shortcode. This feature is available only if you don’t enable the ‘Alternative Library For PDF Parsing’ option in the Main Settings. If you leave this field blank, all images will be extracted. Set this to 0 to disable image manipulation.
• Overlay Text To Images: Inout a text that you want to be overlayed on generated images.
• Overlay Text Color: Select the overlayed text color.
• Overlay Text Location: Select the overlayed text location. Input coordinates. Example: 100,50
• 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.

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!
• Delete All Uploaded PDFs And Delete All Rules: Hit this button and all uploaded pdfs 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:

• %%pdf_images%% – the images, that were extracted from the pdf file
• %%post_title%% – the title of the pdf document, extracted from the pdf meta values
• %%post_content%% – the content of the pdf document
• %%pdf_subject%% – the subject of the pdf document, extracted from the pdf meta values
• %%pdf_keywords%% – the keywords of the pdf document, extracted from the pdf meta values
• %%pdf_creator%% – the creator of the pdf document, extracted from the pdf meta values
• %%pdf_producer%% – the producer of the pdf document, extracted from the pdf meta values
• %%pdf_creation_date%% – the creation date of the pdf document, extracted from the pdf meta values
• %%pdf_modified_date%% – the modified date of the pdf document, extracted from the pdf meta values
• %%pdf_page_count%% – the page count of the pdf document, extracted from the pdf meta values
• %%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:)

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: [pdfomatic-list-posts] to include a list that contains only posts imported by this plugin and [pdfomatic-display-posts] to include a WordPress like post listing. Usage: [pdfomatic-display-posts type=’any/post/page/…’ title_color=’#ffffff’ excerpt_color=’#ffffff’ read_more_text=”Read More” link_to_source=’yes’ order=’ASC/DESC’ orderby=’title/ID/author/name/date/rand/comment_count’ title_font_size=’19px’, excerpt_font_size=’19px’ posts=number_of_posts_to_show category=’posts_category’ ruleid=’ID_of_echo_rule’].

Example: [pdfomatic-list-posts type=’any’ order=’ASC’ orderby=’date’ posts=50 category= ” ruleid=’0′]

Example 2: [pdfomatic-display-posts include_excerpt=’true’ image_size=’thumbnail’ wrapper=’div’].

Summary

Pdfomatic 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

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