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Unfortunately it only works with all topics at this point. I’ll put it on our list as an option to run a single topic for the next update.

Hi Michael,

You have cancelled your Pro Plan subscription on 9/25/13. MyCurator will not work without a paid subscription for more than one Topic.

You need to go to My Account on our site or to the My Account link in the MyCurator page in your WordPress Dashboard. There you will be able to resubscribe to your Pro Plan and again receive new articles from MyCurator.

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I’ll post the final resolution here when we are done.

Good catch! Some css (referencing non-existent tiny texture images) for the tabs we use in the admin that wasn’t cleaned up correctly. I’ll get it out in the next release.

You need to be logged in as an Admin to save a Topic. Editor roles can just view a Topic.

Hi Jan,

1. Training does not affect the volume of articles as you’ve found. They all still appear. The classification does give you a way to ‘prioritize’ your work with good articles being the first to review, then the other classifications less often.

Using keyword filters will reduce the volume. Articles that don’t meet the filter will not show up on the training page. If you are confident in your keywords, this will certainly help. If there are ways to write good articles without using your keywords, you may miss some good content.

2. One primary topic with a lot of keywords in the 2nd field should work. The more keywords in the 2nd field, the higher the volume of articles that will make it through the filter.

Training across multiple related topics should still yield some benefit. You will get more ‘good’ articles than a narrow topic. As a way to prioritize, you should still see that the good articles are usually more on target than the bad.

A trick that may help is to ‘bias’ the training. If you train a lot more bad than good, the classification will tend to find more ‘bad’ articles. Similarly if you overweight the training with good articles it will tend to find more good ones.

Finally, doing the round-up at the end will certainly work. You’ll have to remember which of all of the multi articles belong to which post.

In a week or so we are coming out with Notebooks in our next release. This should make your round-ups much easier. You can save articles in multiple notebooks, then use them in a post just like the multi. It should be much easier to organize your round-ups that way.

Mark

Yes, that is exactly the way to think about it. The Relevance engine should be much better at distinguishing the different categories with training than if you try to do it with keywords.

You should expect a few articles that do get classified as good in multiple categories as training is not 100% accurate. Also, an article that talks equally about Solar and Wind energy would naturally show up in both Solar and Wind categories.

I would be interested in how it works out. When you have some results, you can use the Contact Us menu item on our site to send an update if you have time.

I always like questions!

The Multi articles stay on the training page and they have a Class of Multi. You can use the Show All Relevance drop-down to filter just them.

When you are ready to use the Multi articles, you just Make Live any one of them (or use Make Draft depending on Options used). This becomes the ‘primary’ post in Draft and its title and excerpt are in the Editor. All of your other Multi articles are now displayed in tabs in the Saved Page metabox for this post. You can grab quotes and attribution from any of them.

The Multi articles all stay in your Training Page while the Primary article is in Draft mode. When you publish the primary article, all of the Multi articles are trashed from the Training Page.