Autoblog WordPress Plugin for Reddit Content

About this plugin

This plugin will allow you to build from scratch an autoblogging system, based on Reddit feeds 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 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:
Redditomatic Automatic Post Generator will import items from any content from public Reddit groups or Reddit pages, you define to your blog. 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 Reddit 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
• import comments from the Reddit post as blog comments
• 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!
• Supports Reddit public groups and pages (Note that if you want to post from a private user’s profile, your App needs user_posts permission. Details here)
• Using Faceook Graph API
• Keyword Replacer (replace relevant keywords with your links)
• Random sentence generator (relevant sentences – as you define them)
• detailed plugin activity logging
• scheduled rule runs

This plugin requires a Reddit API Aceess Token. How do I get one?

First you need an application id and secret so reddit knows your application. You get this information by going to https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps and clicking “are you a developer? create an app…”

When registering your app, it’s important to choose the correct and relevant app “type,” as ‘Web app’.

Be sure to give the app a reasonable name and description. The redirect URI is important – for web apps, it points to a URL on a web server that you control. Define it as the plugin instructs you.

The part underlined in red is your client secret. You should never share this. Non-confidential clients (installed apps) do not have a secret.

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

WordPress installation

Youtube video tutorial:

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

Also, you can check out the ‘Reddit online marketing guide’ that is bundled with this plugin – here.

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

Plugin Settings

Refreshingly, Redditomatic 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:

• Redditomatic Automatic Post Generator Main Switch: Enable or disable the Redditomatic Automatic Post Generator. This acts like a main switch.
• Reddit App ID: Insert your Reddit App ID. Learn how to get one here. Please set Set the App ‘redirect uri’ as : http://localhost/wp/wp-admin/admin.php?page=redditomatic_reddit_panel&fb_auth_done=1
• Reddit App Secret: Insert your Reddit App Secret. Learn how to get one here. Please set Set the App ‘redirect uri’ as : http://localhost/wp/wp-admin/admin.php?page=redditomatic_reddit_panel&fb_auth_done=1
• Add Reddit Share Button To Posts: Choose if you want to add after every post a Reddit ‘share’ button.
• Automatically Shorten URLs: Choose if you want to automatically shorten URLs using Goo.gl URL shortener.
• Goo.gl API key: Insert your goo.gl api key.
• 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.
• Reddit Post Types to Skip: Skip these Reddit 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 Reddit 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!
• Reddit Pixel Code: Insert your Reddit Pixel code. To learn how to get one please click here.
• 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.
• Subreddit URL Input your queried subreddit URL.
• 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:

• 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%%, %%reddit_like_button%%, %%item_url%%, %%item_cat%%, %%item_tags%%. More details about these see below.
• Generated Post Format: If your template supports “Post Formats”, than you can select one here. If not, leave this at it’s default value.
• Import Text Posts: Do you want to import text Reddit posts?
• Import Image Posts: Do you want to import image Reddit posts?
• Import Video Posts: Do you want to import video Reddit posts?
• Import Gif Posts: Do you want to import gif Reddit posts?
• Import Link Posts: Do you want to import link Reddit posts?
• Only Public Posts: Do you want to import only public Reddit posts?
• Spoiler Post Import Policy: Select if you want to import posts that are categorised as “spoilers”.
• Gilded Post Import Policy: Select if you want to import posts that are categorised as “gilded”.
• Brand Safe Post Import Policy: Select if you want to import posts that are categorised as “brand safe”.
• Over 18 Post Import Policy: Select if you want to import posts that are categorised as “over 18”.
• 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.
• Import Comments: Do you want to automatically generate post comments from item’s comments feed?

Posts to Reddit:

• Delay Posting By (Seconds): Do you want delay posting with this amount of seconds from post publish? This will create a single cron job for each post (cron is a requirement for this to function). If you leave this field blank, posts will be automatically published on post creation.
• Subreddits Where To Post: Input a list of comma separated subreddit names where you want to automatically post your new post content. Here, you can also use the %%post_categories%%, %%post_tags%% shortcode, which will be replaced by all category slugs, that the current post has assigned.
• Timeout When Posting To Multiple Subreddits: If you wish to post to multiple subreddits, please check this feature. Do you want add a timeout between multiple posting requests? This is needed when you have low karma on Reddit, because you will be easily rate limited (the rate limit of the Reddit API depends of the karma of the user). Values is expressed in seconds. To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Reddit Post Message Template: Choose the template of your Reddit posts. You can use the following shortcodes: %%post_source%%, %%featured_image%%, %%post_cats%%, %%post_tags%%, %%blog_title%%, %%author_name%%, %%post_link%%, %%random_sentence%%, %%random_sentence2%%, %%post_title%%, %%post_content%%, %post_excerpt%%. You can also post content from custom post meta values or custom post taxonomies, if you use shortcodes in this format: %%meta_%% or %%meta_hash_%% (where you replace with the slug of the post meta) and %%taxonomy_%% or %%taxonomy_hash_%% (where you replace with the slug of the post taxonomy).
• Link Reddit Post To First Link In Post Content: Do you want to link Reddit post to first link in post’s content instead of the published post URL? If the post does not contain any links, the published post URL will be used.
• First Post Comment Template: Choose the template of your first comment on the submitted Reddit post. To disabled this feature, leave this field blank. You can use the following shortcodes: %%post_source%%, %%featured_image%%, %%post_cats%%, %%post_tags%%, %%blog_title%%, %%author_name%%, %%post_link%%, %%random_sentence%%, %%random_sentence2%%, %%post_title%%, %%post_content%%, %post_excerpt%%. You can also post content from custom post meta values or custom post taxonomies, if you use shortcodes in this format: %%meta_%% or %%meta_hash_%% (where you replace with the slug of the post meta) and %%taxonomy_%% or %%taxonomy_hash_%% (where you replace with the slug of the post taxonomy).
• Maximum Post Count Per Time Interval: Set the maximum number of posts to be submitted each predefined time interval (default is 1 hour, you can change this in the ‘Maximum Post Count Interval’ settings from below. To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Maximum Post Count Interval (Minutes): Set the maximum number of posts to be submitted each predefined time interval.
• Disable Autoposting of ‘Posts’: Do you want to disable automatically posting of WordPress ‘posts’ to Reddit?
• Disable Autoposting of ‘Custom Post Types’: Do you want to disable automatically posting of WordPress ‘custom post types’ to Reddit?
• Disable Autoposting of ‘Pages’: Do you want to disable automatically posting of WordPress ‘pages’ to Reddit?
• Disable Autoposting of Selected Categories: Do you want to disable automatically posting of WordPress ‘posts’ to Reddit?
• 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.

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:

• %%facebook_share_button%% – adds a facebook share button to the post
• %%twitter_share_button%% – adds a twitter share button to the post
• %%google_share_button%% – adds a google plus share button to the post
• %%pinterest_share_button%% – adds a pinterest share button to the post
• %%item_media%% – displays the item media

%%item_description%%

• %%item_img_url%% – displays the item image url
• %%item_containing_url%% – displays the link that is shared by the Reddit post
• %%item_score%% – displays the item score
• %%item_all_images%% – displays all images that are contained in the post
• %%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_read_more_button%% – includes a ‘Read More’ button, pointing to the reddit 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 Reddit post’s author’s name
• %%author_link%% – includes the Reddit post’s author’s URL (on Reddit)
• %%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 WordPress shortcode

Available shortcode: [redditomatic-embed-feed] to include a Reddit feed. Usage: [redditomatic-embed-feed user=”sfatfarma” sort=”hot” date_range=”hour” limit=”10″ two_column=”0″ voting=”0″ background_color=”ffffff” border_color=”000000″].
Possible shortcode parameters: user=”user_name” input the username from which you want to get the feed. If you do not specify this parameter, the default Reddit feed will be displayed.
sort=”” – possible values: hot, new, top – specify the sort order for resulting feed
date_range=”” – possible values: hour, day, week, month, all – specify the time interval from when you want to grab the feed
limit=”” – specify the maximum number of entries in the feed – must be a number to work
two_column=”” – valid values 0, 1. To display a two column feed, set this to 1.
voting=”” – valid values 0, 1. To display inline voting for feed items, set this to 1.
background_color=”” – valid values range from 000000 to ffffff (hex color codes). Set the color of the background of the feed.
border_color=”” – valid values range from 000000 to ffffff (hex color codes). Set the color of the border of the feed.

Summary

Redditomatic 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