WP Autoblog: A Syndication Plugin
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.
This software is PERMANTLY ON HOLD. Go use Feedwordpress, you vile spammers, or the recently announced WP o’ Matic. I will not provide this plugin, or anything like it, because the potential for abuse is way too high.
I am not, and I encourage you to go after anyone abusing this with a DMCA notice. You can follow these instructions, which should get the offending site removed in short order. I’ve had my own sites ripped off by people abusing this plugin, and filed dozens of DMCA notices against spammers. In the web 2.0 world, information is money, and there are far too many people–often located outside of the US–who want to rip off your work, rather than writing for themselves.
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on August 10th, 2007 at 4:28 am
[…] TeaQuality.com is up and running; however, the rss feed mechanism to incorporate news from yahoo and google news with keyword search function of “tea” is not working. So I went back and did some more research and apparently there are two popular wordpress rss feeders which is feedwordpress and AutoBlog, yet autoblog is not available due to the author’s fear of abuse of the code. This creates problems for me. I think it might be the CDATA tags in the yahoo news feeds that are creating problems with feedwordpress, but that mean I will have to spend time going threw the rss.php code file to figure out how the parser works… sigh and who knows how long that is going to take. […]
on August 16th, 2007 at 9:12 am
[…] I found a couple of plugins that would do this by taking an RSS feed and converting the ’s into Wordpress entries. The first one I came across was WP-Autoblog by Elliot Back however that assigned categories to syndicated posts based on the categories assigned to them in the original feed. Since the feed’s I was using didn’t assign categories to the entries, this wasn’t really a viable option. […]
on August 25th, 2007 at 11:31 am
So is the any solution to prevent WP-AutoBlog plugin getting or download my rss feed? Please help
on August 30th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
i love it
thank you
on September 5th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
exists some solution to avoid that they copy my contents?
on September 6th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
[…] RSS Aggregator plugin for Wordpress Mo implementasi RSS Aggregator plugin buat wodpress untuk pandawa5 koq susahnya minta ampun ya, udah nyoba beberapa plugin mulai dari feedwordpress, BDP RSS Aggregator, dll ternyata masalahnya sama… gak bisa dapetin feed dari wordpress.com duh… dan akhirnya nemuin yang namany WP-Autoblog tapi ternyata sudah discontinued dengan alasan “because the potential for abuse is way too high.” kata si empunya. Tp gw temukan juga source aslinya disini. Dengan interface yang simple daripada feedwordpress dan BDP RSS Aggregator tapi ternyata bisa jalan dengan baek walaupun harus menyesuaikan format feed yang bisa dimasukin… Satu contoh, feed dari blognya friendster adalah RDF, setelah diconvert pake feedburner gk berhasil, akhirnya pake feedblender baru berhasil, but make me happy […]
on September 18th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
After someone copied my feed and it looked like his post, I started using a plugin called: ©Feed, Plugin URI: bueltge.de/wp-feed-plugin/204/
It can attach a report of copyright, a digital fingerprint and the IP of the feed reader to your Wordpress feed (each entry)
Works great for me, just as a tip for people trying to find out how to stop content theft…
on October 1st, 2007 at 4:28 pm
[…] Automated RSS postings If you’ve ever looked around webmaster marketplaces and found an "auto-updated blog" for sale, it’s probably just running the infamous WP Autoblog syndication plugin by Elliot Back. However, if you check the link, you’ll find the twonk has gone and provided free advertising to other potential spam tools: FeedWordpress WP o Matic RSS Aggregator Thanks Elliot. Actually, the RSS Aggregator may be especially good for a couple of projects I’m developing - not for blackhat content theft, but instead to consolidate feeds from a blog network onto a central site. So there you go. __________________ Search Engine Optimisation consultant Need search engine traffic? I can help: Britecorp SEO services […]
on October 5th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
I hate people that have to ruin things for everyone else. I too am looking to incorporate content from multiple sites that are in my network, and want to do it the right way with links, credits etc. to original posts…oh well…all those other version out there cater to the:
“and there are far too many people–often located outside of the US–who want to rip off your work, rather than writing for themselves”
on October 20th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Does somebody was brainstorming why Google have bought Feedburner? Do you really think Google does not know which post is original and which is stolen? Real nursery…
Chris, is the right way to steal is to write where it was stolen? And do you really think spamdexers are located in the rest of your small world more often than otherwise? You forgot U.S. is the country of spam origin.
on October 29th, 2007 at 11:49 am
Good choice mate.
on November 8th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
[…] WP-Autoblog has been around for single-installations of WordPress for a while now which does a nice job of aggregating content into blog posts from various feeds around the web -much like WP-o-Matic discussed here. I like WP-o-Matic a lot because it uses SimplePie parsing that does an excellent job with images and other objects, while being relatively feed agnostic. Unfortunately, WP-o-Matic is not compatible with WPMu just yet. WP-Autoblog, on the other hand, has been made to play nice with WPMu (get the WPMu version of this plugin here) and it is a really dead simple interface that allows for an easy cut and paste approach to including feeds. So, I got to thinking a couple of things: […]
on November 9th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Is great plugin, very usefull. Thanks for you work.
on November 19th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
[…] WP-Autoblog has been around for single-installations of WordPress for a while now which does a nice job of aggregating content into blog posts from various feeds around the web -much like WP-o-Matic discussed here. I like WP-o-Matic a lot because it uses SimplePie parsing that does an excellent job with images and other objects, while being relatively feed agnostic. Unfortunately, WP-o-Matic is not compatible with WPMu just yet. WP-Autoblog, on the other hand, has been made to play nice with WPMu (get the WPMu version of this plugin here) and it is a really dead simple interface that allows for an easy cut and paste approach to including feeds. So, I got to thinking a couple of things: […]
on November 27th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
[…] Eliott Back, criador do plugin, explicou em seu blog que sua intencao ao criar o plugin era apenas agregar seus diversos blogs pessoais e de familia num unico. E depois de perceber o quanto seu plugin favorecia o abuso de spammers ou “sploggers”, retirou o plugin de circulacao em 06/06/2006, mas obviamente algumas copias ficaram por ai, e podem ser rodadas nas versoes antigas do Wordpress. […]
on December 6th, 2007 at 8:22 am
[…] Nur weil ein Beitrag mit iPhone (oder ähnlichem) getagt ist, heißt das nicht, dass er einfach so geklaut werden darf. Meine Inhalte gehören mir und stehen unter keiner CC-Lizenz oder ähnlichem. Wenn die Contentklau-Software das nicht erkennen kann, wäre es klüger sie abzuschalten, als auf eine Abmahnung der Urheber der geklauten Inhalte zu warten. Die Software klaut sogar diesen Beitrag. Ich habe ihm eine Frist bis morgen 12 Uhr gesetzt, die Inhalte von mir zu löschen und die rechtlichen Schritte für den Fall, dass er die Frist verstreichen lässt, angekündigt. Das Plugin, welches für den Diebstahl verwendet wird heißt WP Autoblog und wird wegen der Missbrauchsgefahr auch nicht mehr weiterentwickelt. 06.12.2007, 13:20 Uhr · Martin Hiegl […]
on December 11th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
To bad those spammers show us their ugly faces every day
I would have loved to use this plugin. I will try one of your linktips (WP´oMatic) maybe those are still online.
Greetings from germany - Flibber
BTW: my son really is named Phoenix (!!)
on December 13th, 2007 at 4:41 am
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on December 16th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
[…] WP-Autoblog has been around for single-installations of WordPress for a while now which does a nice job of aggregating content into blog posts from various feeds around the web -much like WP-o-Matic discussed here. I like WP-o-Matic a lot because it uses SimplePie parsing that does an excellent job with images and other objects, while being relatively feed agnostic. Unfortunately, WP-o-Matic is not compatible with WPMu just yet. WP-Autoblog, on the other hand, has been made to play nice with WPMu (get the WPMu version of this plugin here) and it is a really dead simple interface that allows for an easy cut and paste approach to including feeds. So, I got to thinking a couple of things: […]
on December 18th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Great work, thanks.
@daniel: solution founded ?
on December 27th, 2007 at 3:24 am
1 question: is it possible to modify your plguin in order to avoid the automatic cretion of categories?
ps: respect for your choice!
on January 7th, 2008 at 7:26 am
god this guy has gone completely bonkers
on January 20th, 2008 at 7:51 am
I was able to use your plugin for a good purpose commoditywealth.com was able to collect information about all kinds of commodity trading news, charts and opinions scattered over the web and put them in one place. I am sorry to hear that your plugin caused you so much trouble.
on January 20th, 2008 at 9:54 am
I like WP-o-Matic a lot because it uses SimplePie parsing that does an excellent job with images and other objects, while being relatively feed agnostic.
:)
on February 8th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
[…] The plugin WP Autoblog parses a list of RSS feeds and reposts their contents to a blog. However, the version run on adoption23.info was modified to use a variety of feed aggregates offered by services like Technorati. […]
on February 27th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
[…] dan akhirnya nemuin yang namany WP-Autoblog tapi ternyata sudah discontinued dengan alasan “because the potential for abuse is way too high.” kata si empunya. Tp gw temukan juga source aslinya disini. Dengan interface yang simple daripada feedwordpress dan BDP RSS Aggregator tapi ternyata bisa jalan dengan baek walaupun harus menyesuaikan format feed yang bisa dimasukin… […]
on March 4th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
[…] Originally Posted by itto WP Autoblog can automatically replace content in the syndicated posts.. like you can replace e.g. "hot chicks" with like "nifty hotties" or something. this one? WP Autoblog: A Syndication Plugin by Elliott C. Back no more for download but im sure i can find it but i dont see anyhting about chaning the text of rss feeds. […]
on March 18th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
[…] WP-Autoblog has been around for single-installations of WordPress for a while now, and does a nice job of aggreagating content into blog posts from various feeds around the web, much like WP-o-Matic -which I talk about here. I like WP-o-Matic a lot because it uses SimplePie parsing that does an excellent job with images and other objects, while being relatively feed agnostic -unfortunately it is not compatible with WPMu just yet. However, WP-Autoblog has been made to play nice with WPMu (get the plugin here), and it is a really dead simple interface that allows for an easy cut and paste approach to including feeds. So, I got to thinking a couple of things: […]
on April 13th, 2008 at 5:38 am
Do you have plans to re-launch this product?
on April 19th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
I think that you’re taking the wrong approach here. Yes, software can often be used for good or evil. Email is a great example of this. Should we shut down our mail servers because spammers have taken advantage of that medium to do a great deal of evil? Should we stop providing rss feeds, because they’re one way that splogs steal our content?
Splogs were around well before you provided this plugin, and they’ll be around long after you shut it down. If you have the opportunity to make people’s lives better through this software’s legitimate uses, then it’s worth providing.
on May 6th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Hiya Elliott, Is this software still avaliable from you would you be kind enough to email me it?
Thanks for your time
Regards
Steve
on May 8th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Elliott this software is still available. All people have to do is do a search for a free download of wp-autoblog and BAM!. Instead of distancing yourself from what you created you need to improve upon it. You are still responsible regardless of your denial. I for one love the software. My blog needs this capability and I am not spammer. I write, use PLR, employ guest authors and more. I want to provide content so that people will visit my site. Your plugin allows the post to point to the original post so what is the problem? Let google handle the spammers and the duplicate content, not you. Get off your high horse and fix this because if you don’t, someone will take your code and improve upon it and someone else will make the spam problem worse, Because You Won’t Take Responsibility! Finally, if you don’t want to labeled as a spammer, you need to tell those who still use your plugin how to easily remove your name link script from the plugin.