A plugin for running a syndication planet using Planet Venus through its cache directory, with complete support for multi author feeds and categories.
This plugin monitors a Planet Venus cache
directory and syndicates new entries as posts.
It automagically creates users and categories as necessary.
The plugin was originally released on Binary Relations by Morten Frederiksen.
Screenshots
Venus Options
Merging Users
Link Category Mapping
Do I really need cron to use this plugin?
No.
If you are unable to schedule cron jobs, you may instead uncomment the very last line of the plugin (the one with ‘wp_head’ and ‘update’). That will make the plugin look for posts on page loads, but only as often as specified in the update interval configuration. This is not the recommend method, as it slows down page loads for (some) visitors. Also, you likely need cron to run Venus itself anyway…
ChangeLog
1.3
- Added per-source and per-link tagging etc.
- Added optional parent category for new categories.
- Added category defaults, splitting and mapping per blogroll link.
- Now uses configuration for comment/ping open/closed defaults.
- Various fixes.
1.2
- Fixed file includes for WordPress MU.
1.1
- Added option for tagging with source URL.
- Added button for immediate update from cache.
- Added user consolidation mantainance.
- Added selectable default user role.
- Improved compatibility with WordPress MU.
- Fixed problem with Gengo-compatibility.
- Fixed category parsing.
1.0
- Released on http://svn.wp-plugins.org/wp-venus/
0.6
- Added flag for optional checking of entry file size for detecting updates
- Added debug log
- Fixed GUID generation
0.5
- On post delete now also removes cache file, if possible
0.4
- To improve response time, a separate GET of the plugin is now needed
- Better category handling
- Improved user consolidation
- Permalinks also supported for guid
- Fixed bug regarding using atom:id as permalink
0.3
- Added complete feed support
- Fixed invalid permalinks
0.2
- Improved handling of missing categories and excerpts
- Better author identification and creation
- Fixed permalink generation
- Added user consolidation routine
0.1
