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  • WordPress on AutoPilot - Automatic Posting Google Reader to WordPress

    Posted on June 29th, 2007 admin 112 comments

    Why use Google Reader with WordPress?

    Google Reader aggregates RSS feeds and allows you to read them from any browser. This makes it easy to keep up on your content anywhere, anytime.

    I have used Google Reader all over the world and have been able to post to my site as well as keep up with what is going on.

    It is great!

    Want to make it even better? Then post your finds back to your WordPress site automatically and put your site on AutoPilot.

    Here is how.

    What do you get?
    As you read the content from Google Reader you can “tag” articles. This assigns an identifier for that content. Then you can use this identifier to create an RSS feed. The RSS feed allows you to post content back to your WordPress site.

    It only takes a few minutes to set this up and then you have fresh content posted to your sites that will super-glue your readers to your postings.

    3 Steps to Automatically Adding Google Reader Feeds to WordPress

    1. Tag Feeds in Google Reader
    2. Make the Feed Public
    3. Add RSS Feed to WordPress (Widget or direct Post)

    Tag Your It! - Tagging Feeds in Google Reader
    As you read through your RSS feeds press “t” to open the tags window. Then type in the tag you want for the category to post on your blog. For example, I use the tab “blog-writing” for posts that are related to how to writing articles for your blog. Then I send the RSS feed to my WordPress site.

    I Want My RSS! - Getting the RSS Feed out of Google Reader

    Setting up Tags as RSS Feeds
    You need to make the tags public so Google will generate an RSS feed for the tags. At this time Google does not support tags for private feeds.

    In Google Reader select Settings to open up the RSS configurations.

    Select Tags and select the tag and change it to Public. This will generate the RSS feed for the tag.

    Click on “View Public Page” to see all the articles that you have tagged with that specific tag. On the right side of the page is an RSS feed labeled “a feed” with an RSS icon by it.

    Click on this link to display the RSS feed for this page.

    {UPDATE - Google Reader has removed the RSS icon on the page follow the steps below to get the RSS feed}

    Use FireFox browser with Google Reader and you can get an RSS feed.

    On the Public Page look for the RSS icon up by the URL for your public page. Click your mouse on the RSS icon and it will take you to a page to subscribe to the RSS feed. Highlight the RSS feed on the page and add this to your Autoblogging software. The feed should look something like:

    http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user/044789485648142527054/label/

    where

    Now you will have the RSS feed to add back to your Autoblogging software program.

    Also, if the RSS feed is not fully displayed in your RSS feed reader then this is what will be posted on your site. You can only post as much as is published and you will see this problem with sites that post limited feed information on their article. Full feeds will post all the text.

    {end of UPDATE}

    This is the feed that you will copy into your WordPress RSS Feed Reader (ie FeedWordPress or WP-o-Matic).

    Adding RSS Feed to WordPress
    You have 2 options for adding content to WordPress. You can display the content in an RSS widget or post the content to your Blog or CMS.

    Creating the RSS Widget
    Create a RSS Widget in WordPress (Presentation, Widgets) and insert the feed in the widget so it will update automatically.

    Customize Widget Look
    I use the “None” setting for formatting the clip when adding it to WordPress themes. This way the formatting from the clip doesn’t interfere with the theme. Experiment and see what works for you.

    Embedding in Posts
    You can also store the RSS feeds into Posts in WordPress if you want to keep this information in your Blog, Content Management System, or Static Web Site.

    To do this install an RSS WordPress posting program to import your RSS feeds into WordPress. I like FeedWordPress and WP-o-Matic to import feeds and convert them into posts.

    Once you have installed the plug-in then add the RSS Google Reader tag feed to your plug-in and it will post the new tags into WordPress. You can use WP-CRON to automate the import process so every time you add new tags they will be automatically imported into WordPress as new Posts.

    I use FeedWordPress and import the RSS feed into blog as “draft” posts so I can make any changes I want before making the content available on my site.

    The other alternative is to direct post the content. This is a quicker process and populates the site in less time.

    All Done!

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    Author Bio
    Steve Casey is a serial web entrepreneur and ebook publisher and his upcoming book is WordPress on Autopilot. Visit the site at http://www.chimp-simple.com and subscribe to the Chimp Newsletter.

     

    112 Responses to “WordPress on AutoPilot - Automatic Posting Google Reader to WordPress”

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    2. You can also use this same technique to add this RSS feed to your Google Desktop web clips reader! So collect ‘em in Google Reader, and keep up with the latest entries on Google Desktop. Tres cool!

    3. Thanks Glenn, I will give that a try as well.

      Steve

    4. I tried to add the RSS feed to the widget and things display fine - all is great, but none of the links work?

    5. I have had mixed success with the RSS widget. I have found problems with the length of the titles. Next I’m trying one of the advanced plug-ins to format the feeds better.

    6. You can also download the “WordPress on AutoPilot - Automatic Posting Google Reader to WordPress” Special Report with all the images from this link:
      http://www.chimp-simple.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/google-reader-posting-to-wordpress.pdf

      Enjoy,
      Steve

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    18. good post.. ill try technique.. thank you…

    19. This is a cool plugin in but it only pulls the summary and not the entire story. It doesnt even pull the links to the entire story which makes it kind of pointless

      Or am I missing something

    20. @RP, it all depends on the RSS feed. If the feed is a summary only then that is what you get. If it is a full feed then you will get the whole story.

    21. Hi,

      I have a wordpress.com blog and I do not have a server to use wordpress.org. I want to automatically post content to my blog from rss feeds. Does anyone know of any way to do this with a wordpress.com blog?

      Any help will be much appreciated,

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    22. Thanks for ur information :)

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    24. Unfortunately neither FeedWordPress nor WP-o-Matic seem to be fully stable (or even functional in some cases) with WordPress 2.5 or 2.5.1…

      We tested WP-o-Matic on a couple of development sites running WP 2.5 and 2.5.1, and it resulted in out of control processes generating many duplicate posts on the import.

      We ultimately had to turn them off - at least the developers of both plug-ins appear to be aware of the program and are going to update for WP 2.5.x

      Robin

    25. Robin, thanks for the information about WP 2.5. I run most of my sites on WP 2.2 or 2.3. They both work with the plugins and are stable. Just recently I installed WP 2.5 on a new site and have noticed some database connection problems. I’m glad the archives have all the old version of WordPress.

      Thanks Again,
      Steve

    26. Don’t think this works anymore. The tagged items no longer display RSS feeds described in step 2.

    27. I tested it,but the posts from the google reader only has title no any content.

    28. Definitely doesn’t work anymore because the right hand side button to get the feed url no longer exists. You should pull this page as it is completely obsolete, a web dead end or fix it or do something to stop people wasting an hour trying to follow obsolete instructions.

    29. I will take a look at this and see if it is still work. Thanks for the feedback.

      S

    30. @Paul, Google Reader will still create an RSS feed but you do have to change the steps. I have updated the article on how you can do this.

      Thanks for pointing out the change in Google Reader.

      CS

    31. Where I can download the updated article ?
      Thanks.

    32. Can I get the full contente if the RSS feed only display the first paragraph ?
      Thanks.

    33. @John, if you are only getting the first paragraph then the site is probably using excerpt feeds and not the full feed. Look at the feed in a feed reader like Google Reader and see if the full paragraph is displayed, if not, they are using excerpt feeds.

      Good Luck,
      S

    34. @Renny, I will see if I can put another article together with the updates.

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    39. Same Alex Matthews, Can I get it on wordpress.com, Does anyone know of any way to do this.
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    40. @Matt, this won’t work on WordPress.com sites. You need to setup a wordpress self-hosted site. They cost about $5 per month for a hosting account to run one of these sites. It will work with 1and1.com hosting.

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