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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] MyCurator Database TablesThe tables are:
- wp_topic – Holds all of your Topics
- wp_postsread – Keeps track of whats been read from feeds so we don’t have duplicates
- wp_sl_pages – Holds the readable page for each article posted
- wp_ai_logs – Holds the log entries
You may have a different prefix than wp_ so adjust the names accordingly.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] Schedule cron job?Since most of the processing is done in our cloud services, you shouldn’t see much load on your blog at all.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] Schedule cron job?We only schedule on regular periods of 3, 6, 12 or 24 hours. We start our schedule in the early morning, so if you chose the daily schedule it would only run once in the early morning.
Another option is to try the plugin WP-Crontrol. It looks like it lets you schedule cron jobs. The hook you need to schedule is mct_ai_cron_process. You would use the tool to delete the current schedules of mct_ai_cron_process and then add new run times using the mct_ai_cron_process hook. Beware that every time you go into and save the Options page of MyCurator it will create a new cron schedule (that you will then have to delete).
I haven’t used the plugin, but the description sounds like what you need.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] "Force" inclusion of articles in training postsTim,
Good timing. We will be releasing our Get It bookmarklet in a week or so with version 1.2. This will allow you to save any article you are looking at in your browser (or iPad/phone) directly to the training page by just clicking on a bookmark (like the WordPress Press This tool). It will also capture the full text and images just like MyCurator’s normal processing and have that available when you curate the post.
Until then, you can go to the Training Posts menu item in the Dashboard (usually up near the Comments item). Just Add new and you can enter the URL as well as any other text and it will save to the Training page. Make sure you choose a Topic and Relevance type of good, bad or not sure in the widgets to the right where the Category/Tags normally are.
After some work offline, it turns out that if you have your wp-content or wp-content/plugins directory set to be Publicly Writeable (usually 777 permission) that WordPress will block access to plugin .php programs through a browser. This causes MyCurator to be unable to run its background Cron process so it can’t find articles for your training page. It also means that when you click on the Training tags, nothing happens.
To fix this, you must make sure that you or your host set the wp-content and wp-content/plugins directories to permission of 755 (or lower).
I don’t think it is a problem with draft mode. It looks like you are using the Blogroll Link Category as your Source for a MyCurator Topic. The Documentation, Plugins etc are actually links to other sites – they are preloaded when you install WordPress. What MyCurator needs are RSS Feeds so it can find and read articles for you.
Our Sources training video can explain this in more detail. It should give you the information you need to set up the appropriate RSS Feeds for MyCurator to read and find articles. You could also try the documentation on Sources.
First, check the error log and see if there is any recent activity. Choose Error from the drop down that says Activity. If so, see if they might be causing the problem.
Next you should check Process log by choosing Process from the drop down. Look to see if you see messages of “Cron starting MyCurator” for today or recently. If not, you may need to restart the Cron for MyCurator. Go to Options and just press save options button, which will reload the Cron process.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] Training Page Missing Thumbs etcA few things to try:
- Are you logged in as Admin?
- Is the right page in the cache – check the permalink for the page and compare, sometimes wordpress changes permalinks, especially if you re-create the page
- Try deactivating the cache plugin and test. If it works now, then there must be some other settings that need to be looked at or changed
- Try deactivating any plugin that is on the new site but not on the old site
Yes, its up on the site at http://www.target-info.com/documentation-2/. It went up with version 1.1.3 release on Sept. 19th.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] [Plugin: MyCurator] Where is Media Stored?Only the text of the saved page is stored, along with a link to the original media. The media are then retrieved from the original site when displayed.
If you choose the option “Save first article picture as featured post thumbnail?” then that one picture is saved in your media library.
Yes, I see it. Once you have made a MyCurator post ‘live’ it looks to WordPress like any other post. You can edit it and see that what you see in the editor is what you get on the blog. This leads me to believe it is probably something to do with your comment settings. If comments are closed, the comment tag usually won’t show up in the metadata if there are no comments to view.
One possibility is that you have your Settings for Discussion set to only allow comments for a certain amount of days. The post date of a post that MyCurator creates is the day it was posted to your training page, Not the day you actually posted it to your live blog. So maybe the post is too old for comments, especially if you only have them open for a short time?
Another possibility is that in your settings a post is normally not open for comment unless you specifically set it. MyCurator would not set this flag when it makes a post live. You could check this by editing the post and looking at the Discussions widget box (you may have to activate it with the Screen Options in the upper right of the page).
I’m not sure if you use standard WordPress comments or a plugin. If a plugin, it may look for certain conditions to be set before allowing comments?
Is this occurring on the single post page or on the main blog page? Could post some links to your site where you see the problem?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] [Plugin: MyCurator] Remove BlockquoteThe filter will actually work when MyCurator creates new posts (either in the training page or into the live blog if the Topic is Active). It does not work when you [Make Live]. It will take affect on new posts created by MyCurator after you made the change. Existing posts before you made the change will still need to be edited.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] [Plugin: MyCurator] Remove BlockquoteIt would be best to put the code in the functions.php file in your theme directory (under wp-content/themes/). You can read about Filters and Functions.php.
You can place the following code at the end of the functions.php file on a line before the ?> that ends it. This way you won’t have to update the code every time MyCurator is updated. You will have to re-add the code to functions.php when you update your theme.
I haven’t tested it but it should remove the blockquotes and leave the link, but you will have to adjust it for formatting such as spacing or line breaks.
add_filter('mct_ai_postcontent','my_curator_filter'); function my_curator_filter($content){ $content = strip_tags($content,'<a>'); //strip tags, but leave the link <a> tag //Add any other formatting to the $content variable here return $content; //make sure to return the $content }For reference the filter is applied in MyCurator_local_proc.php, just search for mct_ai_postcontent.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [MyCurator Content Curation] [Plugin: MyCurator] Remove BlockquoteIf you mean to remove the excerpt text within the blockquote (and its blockquote tag) then yes, just set the Option “Excerpt length in words:” to 0. No excerpt text in a blockquote will be added to the post. You will only have a link in the post, either to the original page or the saved, readable page, depending on the link option you set.
If you mean to just remove the blockquote tag, but leave the excerpt text, then there is no Option setting for this. We do provide a filter in the code – ‘mct_ai_postcontent’ where you could remove the blockquote tags and do any other formatting or changing of the text before it is saved. Of course this would require some coding.