Automatic Daily posts to WP, Is there a Plugin?

  • I scanned a few hundred of the Plugins and didn’t find what I am looking for.

    I would like to automatically make postings to WP, every day, from a directory that has new content (short articles), waiting to be posted. I am thinking this would be activated by a Cron job.

    Does anyone know of such a plugin, or can you point me in the right direction?
    I am a PHP developer, but do not want to re-invent the wheel ??

    Many thanks,
    Robert

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  • Reinvent. Reinvent. Reinvent. lol.

    Actually, can’t you just accomplish this by using the schedule posts option in the editing window? Just compose your posts ahead of time and set the date and time for when they should be published… I do this all the time on my blog.

    If, however, you are looking for something more robust, that can import ‘text’ and automatically format or use the HTML in the files in the directory, I don’t think that there is a plugin out there that does it. But if you create the plugin, be sure to release it for the rest of us. ??

    Thread Starter rpalma

    (@rpalma)

    Thanks for your post.

    What I have is a large collection of articles – some are one paragraph and some are longer. I’m an R&D engineer and have been writing about what I have been designing for 39 years so I have tons of stuff (articles).

    I want to put this content on the web a little at a time for the purposes of continually “adding content”. So I’d like to have a piece of code take a couple of these, each day, and put them on the blog. The blog will ping the various RSS services, yada, yada, yada.

    Yes I could do it manually, but I have soooo much to do and I’m a “one guy” organization.

    I have found a plugin library that might give me a kick start so I have just about decided to ro0l my own.

    Yeah and on the topic of “creating” content, I have looked at that too. They are commercial products that subscribe to RSS/ATOM feeds. Parse out the URL for the real content, then scrape the content and post it. I don’t need that since I have lots of content. Also it could be messy or a lot of work to get the sources to actually allow you to republish their content.

    All the best to you,
    Robert

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