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In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] First Time Using Multi Articles FunctionNo option to move items back to the Training page at this time. I’ll add it to the to do list for next release – could come in handy.
Thanks for taking the time to tell us about how you use curation!
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In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] First Time Using Multi Articles FunctionUnfortunately, you do have to save the articles to the training page to use the Multi function. We are planning a new Notebook feature where you can save articles and then use them for creating posts, not limited to using them once as the Multi feature is.
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In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] My Training Page is blankGo to the Training Posts menu item in the Dashboard. Are there are any posts there?
If there are no posts in the Training Posts menu item, MyCurator has not posted any training items.
Go to the Logs menu item under MyCurator which shows what happened to each article found by MyCurator. If you see activity in the Log, there will be messages describing what has happened to the articles. See the Logs documentation for more details.
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In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] Articles LibraryIf you are looking for help in separating the articles into the 10 categories, unfortunately, MyCurator is just a binary classifier, separating articles into ‘good’ or ‘bad’ (with a ‘not sure’ gray area). What you would really need is a tool that can classify articles into one of 10 categories.
I don’t know of any article classifiers that work as a plugin. You might do a Google search on web based article classifiers and see if there is one that might help.
If you are looking for help in searching the articles, you might look at yolink as well as search the wordpress plugin repository for ‘search’ which brings up several plugins.
Sounds like a great project, good luck!
Jack,
Only the thumbs up or the thumbs down actually tell MyCurator to use the article for training as good or bad. When you click Thumbs up MyCurator remembers this is a good article. What happens after that is optional. If the Option “Keep good trainees on Training Page?” in the Curation tab is Not Checked, then the article will be made a Draft and you will go into the editor. That is the default and is what you described above.
If you Check this option, then when you click the thumbs up the article is used to train MyCurator, but then nothing else happens.
When you click the Thumbs Down, MyCurator is trained that this is a bad article and we always remove the article because you didn’t like it.
Clicking the Trash icon, Make Live, Quick or Make Draft all do not do any training. They just perform their function. So you can use these if you don’t want to do any training yet use or delete the article.
I hope that helps.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] Saving and Quickly Retrieving “Get It” ArticlesThe new Get It that allows you to post an article to Draft is now available with the 1.3.3 update of MyCurator
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In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down, Trash ButtonsBill,
There is an option for that! Even though only Admins and Editors can see the training tags and trash button (not visitors or even subscribers), it is nice to be able to turn it off all together.
Go to the Format tab in the MyCurator Options menu. Just Check the option “Do Not Show Training Tags on Live Site for Admins” and then Save Options. You won’t see the tags anymore.
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In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] Saving and Quickly Retrieving “Get It” ArticlesBill,
Unfortunately, they are saved without anything different from other articles found by reading Sources. You can sort the training page from oldest to newest. Just click on the Date column title twice. This may help you to quickly get to older get it posts. The other option is to sort by title by clicking on the Title column – this may help if you remember the title.
We are adding a feature to allow Get It to post an article as a Draft post, bypassing the training page. This will help if you know you will be creating a post in the future from the article. You can also save to Draft then immediately Edit the article with this new update.
The new update should be out in a couple weeks.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] How do I post to a specific page?Bob,
I don’t have much experience with affiliate links, but I do think there are a lot of plugins that will automatically insert affiliate codes as well as ‘hide’ the affiliate codes/links. You might try searching the plugin repository for affiliate links, link hiding/cloaking etc.
If you can’t find a plugin, you’d probably have to edit the attribution link manually and add your codes.
Mark
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In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] Attribution link location?Brandon,
In researching this issue, I have been thinking that since we are displaying the full text of the article on the single post page, it seems that we should keep the link at the top. This makes it much clearer – right up front – that the article came from another website. I think putting the link at the bottom will not be as clear and can open up copyright and plagiarism issues.
I’d like to not have an option to move it, but I would like to hear your views (or others who are following this topic) if you think that is the wrong way to go. Thanks,
Mark
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In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] Source it doesnt open windowIt seems you just have a bookmark for the source it page. That usually means the drag and drop didn’t work, most often because it didn’t drop on a bookmarks bar. You need to drag the source it button to the ‘Bookmarks Bar’ in Chrome, the ‘Favorites Bar’ in IE or the ‘Bookmarks Toolbar’ in Firefox. These are special bars that take a dropped item. They usually appear below the address bar.
If that doesn’t help, maybe you could send along which browser you are using and some screen shots of where you are dragging the source it button?
The preview is controlled to some degree by your theme. I would hope that it isn’t displayed that way on a live post, but even if so, I think we can get rid of it.
From what I can see, the content at the top of the page is from the post field called ‘the excerpt’. This is not the full post content as it doesn’t contain your comments as you can see in your screen shot.
In MyCurator you can suppress the saving of this ‘excerpt’ field (doesn’t effect the excerpt in the post). Go to the Admin tab in the Options menu item in MyCurator. Click the “Do Not Save to Excerpt Field in Post” checkbox. Now the excerpt field won’t be saved and so your theme shouldn’t be able to display anything.
This option isn’t ‘retroactive’ so any item previously found by MyCurator still has the excerpt. You can manually remove the excerpt as follows. In the Post Editor, click the Screen Options in gray in the upper right. A list of checkboxes will appear. Click the Excerpt checkbox. Now scroll down until you see a metabox titled Excerpt and delete the contents of the field. After updating, see if the preview looks good.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] How do I post to a specific page?MyCurator creates Posts, just like a manual post you would create using Add New in the Posts menu item in the Dashboard. Each post MyCurator creates is also assigned a Category.
To get a post to show up on a page can be done a few different ways. Your theme may have a page Template that allows a page to show posts from a specific category. Here is a thread to create your own template to do this.
Here is a plugin that does it.
I hope this helps, maybe you can elaborate a little more if not.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] Attribution link location?We have been releasing on a roughly monthly schedule, with the last one on 4/7, so I expect sometime in early/mid May.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] Attribution link location?Unfortunately, there are no options to move the link. We will work on an option to place the link at the top or bottom of the saved page in our next release.