{"id":9049,"date":"2015-04-22T12:01:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T18:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=9049"},"modified":"2015-04-22T09:45:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T15:45:17","slug":"crossposting-and-crontab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=9049","title":{"rendered":"Crossposting and Crontab"},"content":{"rendered":"

About 15 minutes after I\u00a0wrote the below post my dissatisfaction with that\u00a0plugin and Jetpack’s Publicize (which posts to social media like Facebook and Twitter) sent me looking for an all-in-one solution. The most popular plugin seemed to be SNAP<\/a> (Social Networks Auto Poster), so I gave it a try. It does require you to create an app in both Facebook’s and Twitter’s developer pages but the step-by-step instructions were detailed and flawless.<\/p>\n

As a result I now am using the plugin on neverforever.ca and it auto-posts all new content to all three (and more if I want) sites.<\/p>\n

Slick-er<\/p>\n

I have been neglecting this blog after a great start to the year… sigh. It was mostly a conflation of an\u00a0issue of the magazine, buying a boat and then setting up another blog for the boat. I have read a lot of boat blogs leading up to our decision and thought I would document our ‘journey’ for the edification of others.<\/p>\n

Anyway one of the things I wanted to set up to help alleviate the problem was a way to post to both blogs at once. When we get going it is unlikely I will have the time or bandwidth to maintain both blogs. My initial attempt is using a plugin called feedwordpress<\/a>. What it does is allow this blog (macblaze.ca) to monitor the RSS feed from neverforever.ca<\/a> and then, when a new post appears, syndicate (repost) it here.<\/p>\n

It’s not the simplest interface I have come across and so far the bells and whistles don’t seem to functioning as advertised but the basic premise is ok. The big\u00a0issue was I couldn’t get it to do it automatically without digging through the wiki<\/a>. It seems I needed to set up a cronjob on my web server. Now I am pretty lucky and my server has a great interface. I just went to the crontab button and added the command:<\/p>\n

 *\/10 * * * * \/usr\/bin\/curl --silent http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?update_feedwordpress=1<\/code><\/pre>\n
And then I added a test post and voila! What this does is tells the server to go to the url\u00a0“macblaze.ca\/?update_feedwordpress=1”\u00a0every 10 minutes. By doing that the plugin does an update on the RSS feed and then posts anything new.<\/p>\n
Slick.<\/p>\n
The issues comes with the options to control the post categories and post authors. To date I haven’t been able to make those options work. But I’ll keep trying. And I will have to remember to remove the cron job if I dump this particular plugin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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