Re-feed posts to wordpress?

  • Sorry if this has been addressed, but I’m not finding an answer to my question here. I’m wondering how I can pull RSS from one blog and automatically post the content of each post in another blog.

    For instance, if I have ‘Blog A’ about Cars and Boats, and ‘Blog B’ about just Cars, I would like to post my original content to ‘Blog A’, then simply pull the Car-related content from there and display each car-related post on ‘Blog B’, the Cars only website. Is there a plugin that does this already, or a codex example of how it can be done? I am fairly comfortable working with PHP scripts, (though I’m far from expert), so that would be an option as well if someone has any good leads.

    One thing: I am not interested in simply posting a feed with titles or headlines. I am also not interested in posting portions or summaries of articles that simply link back to the original source. I would like to have WordPress set up to check the feed on a specific timeline, (or the press of a button), grab any new posts, and publish them as if I had created a completely new (and separate) post for each post in the RSS feed.

    Ideas?

    Thanks!

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  • Hey MacWise,

    What your describing sounds an awful lot like auto blogging. If you own both “Blog A” and “Blog B” then your desire to cross post articles from a feed is probably legitimate. Unfortunately, most people who auto blog abuse the heck out of it. One developer of a plugin that did what you are asking said this:

    This plugin was intended so I could aggregate some of my and my family members blogs together on my front page using an all-Wordpress solution. However, it seemed to attract spammers who abused it, which is even worse for me, because it puts “Post by XXXXX and software by me” on the bottom of every import, leading some people to believe that I am a spammer.

    concluding with:
    I will not provide this plugin, or anything like it, because the potential for abuse is way too high.

    Honestly, if you own both “Blog A” and “Blog B” consider keeping them separate (one for cars and one for boats) or join them together. Duplicating articles can have some negative SEO effects anyway, and posting non original content on your blog has far less benefit then you might think.

    There are plugins that do what your asking, but the potential for abuse is high enough that your probably best searching google on your own.

    Best of luck which ever you decide,

    Aaron

    Thread Starter macwise

    (@macwise)

    So am I to understand that there is no way to generate posts based off of RSS feeds? How about a plugin that creates and sends emails from your wordpress admin interface to an account that is set up to accept email posts?

    Actually, wpcast didn’t say anything like that. Just gave insight about the possible issues related to “re-blogging”.
    a) if both are yours, you may end up penalized for duplicate content
    b) if the source site is not yours… that’s copyright infringement

    Now, that you know that, try a search for “feedwordpress plugin”

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