TTC1

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Hi @habibjh ,

The process is pretty simple, in Feedzy you have to set External image ON: (see screenshot)
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/afic79xxb8qd65eq5pdo0/Capture-d-cran-2024-07-08-140427.jpg?rlkey=vzsnd2fbv3g4w4r26gq2j293z&st=2uenn89j&dl=0

This setting tells Feedzy not to save images it fetches to the database. The images don’t appear in the articles. And the result is this: (see screenshot)
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vo7qzyvifmej7vo2m2uw5/Capture-d-cran-2024-07-08-142704.jpg?rlkey=gbh30qi0t6u3ubyngik33z0u9&st=fz8d4clv&dl=0

When this setting is deactivated: (see screenshot)
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/y7joqgk5keegunjqyayn6/Capture-d-cran-2024-07-08-140210.jpg?rlkey=ij7x86srjwf4pwljcn3fjy5xw&st=w1q7sm7k&dl=0

the images are appearing in the articles.

Hope this helps.

• This reply was modified 4 months, 2 weeks ago by TTC1.
• This reply was modified 4 months, 2 weeks ago by TTC1.

Thanks @andreearadacina21 for the timely response. Much appreciated.

“Unfortunately, there is no method available in the free version to display the source URL.”
It would be nice to have that option. But it is not a deal breaker for me.
What would be really nice though is to have the option to change the wording of that link.
Right now it is “Read More”, my site is mostly in French so changing this wording would be an appreciated option.
Another option could be to have the actual URL of the original article with the [#item_source] magic tag.
I don’t know how [#item_source] and [#item_url] behave in the paid version but having both clickable to the original URL would be fantastic.

By the way, I didn’t see any specific documentation mentionning that you can add text in the magic tag field. I got the hint from reading something else in the documentation. Now I have:

Source: [#item_source] – [#item_url]

in the Content field. It makes for a nicer “footer” of the article excerpt.
It would be nice to make this option more obvious in the documentation.

I’m creating this autoblogging/news aggregation site as a learning experimentation. I’m quite at ease to do simple static sites but blogging, I had no idea. That’s why I’m using only free plugins for now.
If I ever decide to make it a commercial endeavour, I’ll go the paid plugins way. There are lots of limitation, understandably, with free plugins but it forces you to be creative and find solutions.

Anyway, thanks again for the quick reply and for adding the feature request.
Have a great day.

• This reply was modified 4 months, 2 weeks ago by TTC1.

Thanks @habibjh for the response.

I actually figured out what was the “problem”.
I was configuring Feedzy to not upload the images to the server.
My guess is Feedzy uses the URL of the image to show it on the frontend.
I presume your plugins need to have the images on the server because as soon as I let Feedzy download the images on the server, your plugins were able to serve the images.

Sorry but I don’t have a screenshot to show you since the images are now on the server.
Your plugin was showing the “broken image” icon: https://www.codespeedy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Chrome-Broken-Image-Icon.png , when the images were not on the server.
The text and eveything else was OK.

Thanks Andrea.
Great job to the developpers.
All seems to work fine now.

Thanks again.

Thanks Andrea for the quick reply.
Unfortunately, just adding ?[#item_image]? doesn’t always solve the problem.

I did try your wp-config.php trick but it breaks my WordPress. I loose access to my dashboard. I get a “htm error 500” message. As soon as I take that line out, everything is back to normal.

@aipe Well, your solution seems to be the proper one.
I was having the same problem and did what you did, activate another theme and reactivating my actual theme. This did the trick.
Actually, it seems to have cleared the site’s cache by switching themes thus resolving the issue.

Thanks for this.

Still incomplete… 4 months later.

No, I had started working with a theme but it was too complicated to do any customisation to it so I deleted everything and I am just starting again.

What I’m looking for is, let’s say I have already created categories and tags for the posts. Now, I want people who upload a file to be able to select categories and tags that matches the one I created for the posts.
And then, I want to be able to list the files on the front end filtered with these categories/tags for other people to download.

Hope this make sense.

I forgot to add, some of the categories have sub-categories too.
How could these be added for the uploader to choose from?

Well, thanks MPyogi for the recommendation but… I just tried it and even though it told me it changed so many occurences, nothing was changed.
The Site URL and Home entries were still the same and if tried to change one manually, in the settings/general page, it broke the site.

I read the docs but didn’t see anything special to do before using the plugin.

Lost here.

That’s what I thought, by doing so, just editing the Site URL and Home entries in the _options table to “blog.mysite.com”, the blog does show up but all the links are broken. I get error 500 on all pages and even part of the theme custom modifications I have done are missing from the front page.

I guess I have to change every reference in the database from “mysite.com/wordpressDirectory” to “blog.mysite.com”

But I wonder if I have to change all references in all the tables or just the ones in the _options table. I just want to be sure. I don’ want to have to redo it all a second time.

No. It was already setup on my server. I actually scraped a previous install that went wrong after an update and a non compatible plugin.
I simply forgot to change those entries in the “settings/general” section for the WordPress address and Site address before setting up my theme/child theme.
I had done it this way on my first install, manually entering “blog.mysite.com” as the address for both field.
I guess it worked because the database wasn’t populated much yet with the theme info and all.

Anyways, so if I read you correctly, by simply editing Site URL and Home entries in the _options table, all should be fine, right?
Well, nothing like trying it out and see the result.
I will be back.
Thanks for the help.

Try Notepad++ if you want something quite simple to work with, and it’s fast.
Or, if you want something with more power, try Aptana Studio 3. It is a complete IDE and it is similar to Dreamweaver minus the visual preview. (actually, you can have a preview in Aptana if you connect your broswer to it. I use 2 secreens so I don’t need that, really)
Both of them are free. A quick Google search will lead you to their respective download page.

‘Members’… I guess one of my two brain cells was asleep, I never tought of that term to search upon. Thanks for the wake upcall. ??

@brian, it would be nice if you were to share a link to the other thread where you found your solution.