Posts Tagged ‘plugin’

Today we’ve released an update to CSVPiG, our WordPress datafeed import plugin.

The new features only apply to the Pro Version but the Free version should be updated too.

• Brand new post templating option replaces column mapping, now just paste tokens into the WP content elements you want. Post Content areas can contain tokens and HTML!
• Clone settings now includes your BlogPiG API key so that CSVPiG is ready to run with all your custom settings as soon as the plugin is activated
• You can now use commas inside text delimeters in the header row e.g. column1,column2,”column2,b”,column3
• CSVPiG now keeps the case of column headers (previously it changed headers to lowercase)

The last two features were added as a result of user requests.

Please don’t forget we’re a community driven development company. We build features and product that YOU ask for! So don’t be shy drop us a note with anything you think will help you work faster and make you more money.

You can download the updates of CSVPiG Pro & Free inside the BlogPiG members’ area.

CSVPiG Free can also use the auto plugin update in WP Admin.

More features coming soon.

The CommentPiG launch is going extremely well this week, I’ve had some repeated pre-sales questions come through so I’ve posted the answers here for everyone to see:

I’m interested in buying commentpig but I’d like to try it for a few days. Is it possible?

We can’t issue a trial license at the moment. We do of course offer a full no questions asked money back gaurantee for 30 days after purchase which is much better than trialling it for a couple of days.

Where do the comments come from?

The comments come from a variety of sources. When running in full auto-pilot uses your selected matching criteria (probably a tag from your post) to find comments from:

• YouTube – videos that are tagged with the keyword
• Twitter – using your keyword to search for tweets
• FriendFeed – using your keyword to search for comments
• Yahoo Answers – using your keyword to search for questions and using answers as comment
• Own Comments – you can harvest comments from any source and clean them yourself before uploading as DB to CommentPiG, this is the most powerful way to use CommentPiG

Do you happen to have a demo blog to see this working?

Not currently only live sites that I’m not keen to expose, I’ll put up a demo site asap and post the link.

Can I install the plugin on several my blogs?

Yes you can install CommentPiG on as many sites as you own.

Do you guys do installations?

Not officially, i.e. we don’t have installs on the price list but we’re more than happy to help out if you have any problems. Installing CommentPiG really should be as quick as uploading and activating and WordPress plugin. The only that occasionaly requires a little extra work is the ioncube loaders as about 1/10 hosts don’t run them by default. Most will add them if requested.

You can read all about CommentPiG here

Just click the support tab at the top of the page if you have any more questions.

We’ve just released a new update of CSVPiG to the WordPress Plugin Repository. This is Version 2.0.0.796

The key changes are listed below:

• Removed the ‘Disable Post Publishing’ check box
• Added a ‘Post Status’ drop-down box with the following options: Published, Pending Review, Draft and None
• Adjusted the initial settings file and some log messages

So now you can choose whether to import you posts as live posts or keep them as drafts for publishing later.

Just a quick update about a new feature that is available in CSVPiG our Worpress CSV Import Plugin.

You can now enter multiple categories into the ‘category’ field of your import CSV file e.g.:

• Entering ‘products,wordpress plugins,csvpig’ into the category field would result in the post appearing in 3 categories
• Entering just ‘csvpig’ into the category field would result in the post appearing in just the child category

You don’t need to update your CSVPiG if you’ve already done it recently as this feature is already built in, we just forgot to document it! I’ll be adding it to user guide shortly.

If you don’t already have CSVPiG you can download it here:

Due to popular demand I have decided to start releasing a selection of the BlogPiG plugins under GPL license. The first to be launched is TagPiG our WordPress AutoTagger.

TagPiG is an auto-tagging plugin for WordPress. TagPiG has been designed to overcome the manual bottle-neck by completely automating your tagging process. Here are some of the key features of TagPiG:

• Automatic post categorisation
• Automatic tag publishing
• Automatic tag filtering
• Automatic internal linking of common tags
• Automatic tag rotation

TagPig is simple to install and setup on your WordPress blogs. Once the plugin is activated it will run in the background, silently categorising, tagging and linking your blog posts automatically. With TagPiG installed you get all the great benefits of tagging without any of the additional manual overheads.

You can get an immense amount of benefit from correctly tagging all of your blog posts. Tags not only help you organize large quantities of content, but they also help define your site as a whole. If you post good content and you consistently tag every post you make with maybe 5-10 relevant keywords then, over time, your blog will become a very valuable resource to people interested in those keywords. They can actually come to your blog and get better, more reliable, less spammy, more focused search results than by doing a Google search! While this all sounds very desirable in theory the extremely manual nature of categorising and tagging blog posts has been a major bottle-neck for webmasters who build a lot of blogs and/or post to them frequently.

By Using TagPiG to automate your tagging will:

• Deliver additional keyword density into your blog posts
• Expand the keyword reach of new blog posts
• Get traffic boosts from Technorati and other tag aggregators
• Thematically organise your blog posts
• Provide an intelligent internal linking structure for your blog

TagPig has a comprehensive pdf user manual detailing every aspect of it’s setup, configuration and installation.

You can download TagPiG immediately here…