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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] I cannot post any moreAre you using the new version 2.1.1 of MyCurator? Older versions did have some problems with changing users. The newest version, released Sunday, should fix that.
If you do upgrade, it won’t fix the old posts, just the new ones should come in with the tags. You could go to Logs and Reset Logs to force MyCurator to grab the older posts again.
Also after upgrading go to Options and Save Options to make sure Cron is working.
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] I too have issuesPlease send a contact us from our site and we’ll get in touch as we will probably need to exchange some information in private to dig into this issue.
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] I too have issuesSee if that article (same title) shows up in your training posts now. It should be there as this message says it posted.
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] I too have issuesGo to the Logs menu item under MyCurator. Do you see any listing there? If so, there should be a message of what happened to each article.
If empty, choose Error from the drop down named Activity and see if you see any error messages.
If both are empty, choose Process from the drop down and see if there are any entries.
Please reply with any messages you don’t understand. You could also send us a Contact Us with any screen shots of these logs.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] Settings MigrationYou can migrate the Options by copying the option value mct_ai_options in the wp_options table. You could copy the wp_links entries, but you will have to recreate the links categories manually.
You will need to re-enter the Topics as they also have entries in the taxonomy tables that are set up when the Topics are added.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] Highlighting on hover is intermittent at bestUnfortunately, not everyone uses good html practice in identifying block elements such as paragraphs, outlines etc. That means we can’t identify the element and can’t highlight it (though you can clearly see it, the computer needs some tags to see it). If they don’t highlight you can cut and paste as a work around.
Please post some links here to the articles you are having problems with. We’ll try to add any new techniques that we can identify to future releases.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] Post to Custom PostWe are beta testing the custom post capability for our next release. If you are interested, send a Contact Us from our site and we can arrange for you to try it out on your site. Thanks
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] Post to Custom PostWe have our click-copy capability to add any images in the full article text into the post while you are in the post editor. So when Get It saves the post as a draft you can follow it into the editor (Save as Draft & Edit button) and add images, other paragraphs as well as access to all of the other plugin and theme features that are in your editor.
We’ve decided not to put images into the actual Get It window as we would have to duplicate much of the full editor capability. I think it is cleaner to have a quick, easy Get It implementation with the option to follow into the editor for more detailed work.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] Permanently deleting trash takes foreverYes, we do keep the full text after the post is live. This file will only grow with your live posts, and most hosts give you plenty of space for files. It is also indexed so it will not slow anything down, and is not used on your live site so won’t impact your page load for visitors.
We’ve kept the full article text around because you may want to edit the post in the future and have access to the original article text.
Also, web pages are always disappearing. One of our development projects is to look at replacing your link to the original web page if it disappears with a link to this ‘Readable Page’. That way your post can still reference the article and display it even if the original gets taken down.
We will also investigate an option to remove saved pages from the file for live posts for those who would like to.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] Post to Custom PostI’ve heard this a few times, so I’m adding it to the next release. For each Topic, I will add a drop down to post to a custom post type instead of a regular post. That way you can vary where you post by Topic (or set them all the same).
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] Permanently deleting trash takes foreverI tried it out on several of my test sites and couldn’t recreate this problem. We only perform any processing on delete if the post was originated by MyCurator (ie Made Live from the training posts) or is a Training Post. Try deleting some regular posts (drafts) that you create and have nothing to do with MyCurator. See if they take as long.
If not, we do two things on the delete. First, if it is a MyCurator originated post or training post, we remove any images from the media library that are associated with it. We use standard core WP functions to do this so I can’t imagine this being a problem.
Next we have to delete the saved page text from a separate file – wp_sl_pages. Using phpmyadmin you could check and make sure that this file has an index on the field sl_post_id. If that index was gone, it could slow down the delete.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] Using Notebook link on training pageI haven’t heard of that. It could be formatting issues (some themes may have CSS that disrupts the popup) or it might be a javascript collision. Maybe you could use our Contact Us form to get in touch as I might need access to your site.
When WP ‘creates’ an excerpt it doesn’t handle formatting well…
Since your theme also had settings for the RSS feed, it is probably controlling the output rather than core WP. You might check with the theme support to see what is the problem with the full text being delivered.
Editing the little extraneous stuff out of some posts is probably the way to go. We use a service called Diffbot to extract the article text from the web page. Its actually a very difficult thing to do as every web page can be so different in how its formatted.
They use visual AI techniques to figure out what is the real article versus what are ads, promotional links and other extraneous material. But in your WSJ examples, those little phrases could just as well be an important lead-in set of bullets. The machine just can’t really understand the words and make a decision.
You are right to use the ‘content’ instead of ‘excerpt’ on the home page and RSS feeds. MyCurator also has an option where we won’t store anything into the excerpt of a post. In the admin tab of the Options menu item, check the “Do Not Save to Excerpt Field in Post”. Then, if you want to use the excerpt, WordPress will build an excerpt using the post content you’ve saved. If you do this, it doesn’t work retro-actively, only on future posts found by MyCurator.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] Menu under training posts not showing any moreThe duplicate key error is just a warning. It comes about because we check the database configuration whenever you save your Options. It is a warning due to the way keys work in different database setups. We’ll be fixing it in the next release.
For the training tags problem, please send a contact us from our site and we’ll get in touch as we will probably need to exchange some information in private.