Autoreader 1.1

[mgmirkin]

Sorry, what was your question?

Not sure, what was your answer? ^_^

Sorry if I'm a bit verbose. Just trying to get things set up and seem to be running across a number of things that I think could be improved (such as things that are very non-obvious or function less-than-efficiently or could have a few features added to really make things work smoothly)... For what it's worth.

And, please, don't mistake nit-picking or making suggestions / comments as negativity. In fact, I've been quite pleased with how well things have worked straight out of the box (other than a few bumps with the initial install) and the fact that, by and large, it has a feature set that I've been unable to find with other CMSes in order to get done some pretty specific things for a potential project / web site I'm poking around with starting up. There are just a few areas that I could see room for improvement so that future installs and workflow maybe goes just that much smoother or the CMS and modules are just that much more robust and efficacious.

Best,
~Michael

[jganesh]

I installed all the plugins(bookmarking.zip) and the auto reader. When I add RSS feeds, it either says "Error Occured" after a few seconds or when I try to save the campaign, it says "there was an error in getting data". Can you please advise me if I am missing anything?

This perfectly worked fine when I had the site in my local server(wamp).

Only one thing I noticed was, it said BCmath module not installed. I am assuming that this doesn''t have to do anything with the RSS auto reader. Is there any problem with the cron?

regards

[jganesh]

can you please tell me which part of code you had to tweak to get the random voting?

[baadier]

Im using the RSS Reader to import feeds and currently the all the posts get attributed to Administrator regardless of whether i change the username. Some of the feeds have real bloggers attached to them so the attribution is important.

[Nick]

Im using the RSS Reader to import feeds and currently the all the posts get attributed to Administrator regardless of whether i change the username. Some of the feeds have real bloggers attached to them so the attribution is important.

I don't use AutoReader so it's hard to say, but scanning the code, I see line 692 in /libs/autoreader_functions.php:

'author'        => $h->cage->post->testAlpha('campaign_author'), 

"testAlpha" will only work if the username is strictly aA-zZ. Maybe your users have numbers, hyphens or underscores in their names?

If so, try changing it to "testUsername" instead of "testAlpha". You may have to reassign the feeds to their authors to get the campaigns to update themselves.

[baadier]

I'm pretty sure not all of the usernames had underscores,numbers etc in them but I might be mistaken,I'll give it a shot later.

[Nick]

I'm pretty sure not all of the usernames had underscores,numbers etc in them but I might be mistaken,I'll give it a shot later.

Well, if not, maybe this will be helpful: Author Select. I haven't got round to putting it in the forums yet, but it should work and lets you change the author from the post edit page (as well as setting the author during manual post submission).

[baadier]

testUsername didnt seem to help Nick,il do the Author Select plugin when i get a chance tomorrow.

[cecilporter]

the autoreader settings page stopped working for me after upgrading to hotaru 1.4.1 & autoreader 0.6.

The "dashboard" did not appear and the "dashboard," "campaigns" and "options" links were unresponsive.

I reverted back to autoreader 0.5 and things were back to normal.

[cecilporter]

this may not be the right place to post this, but I just noticed that on the "Plugin Management" screen, even though I downgraded autoreader to 0.5, it still shows the version number as 0.6.

To downgrade it I disabled the plugin, uploaded the old version, and reenabled the plugin. That's the correct procedure, right?