So I set up WP-o-Matic, a wordpress plugin, which auto blogs using RSS feeds. This has caused degrees of pain around the BView blog however with a little hacking it is becoming useful. In order to share what I did and help stop others from repeating my mistakes here are some tips to auto blogging:

1. Decide why you are auto blogging and what value you intend to create or time you intend to reduce. This is a very powerful tool. Great power, great respons…

2. If you are setting up auto blogging on an existing blog then any subscriber to your generic WP rss feed will receive all of your new posts. This could be an issue if you don’t want your auto blogs to be distributed that way.  I have now changed the rss equivalent for the blog to not include the category that auto blogs appear in.

3. Same applies to your home page – I have stopped my auto blog category from appearing on the home page.

4. Using regex and rewrites is almost impossible and you will have to edit the PHP in WP – be prepared

My apologies to anyone who gets our blog feed if they have received multi-updates. I hope that this will not happen again!