Elcan Software

1. Expire Never (guess this is covered with auto-unpublish "NO" setting)

2. Separate feed Title Field under the feeds settings. An option to make it the link name would be nice too. A lot of my feeds are Yahoo pipes and I have a bunch and can't recognized them until I actually go into the feed. The feed list would show the title to and make it way easier to recognize. ( I changed the $Item_link in Utilities.php to the following to temporarily fix it for me. ($item_link = "<a href=".ampReplace($item->get_permalink())." target=\"_blank\">$iTitle"; )



3. The created date in the articles doesn't seem to be the newest for the day for some reason. I normally create 3 article on my own and then do the Feed2Post articles the ones I did first end up at top and the F2P ones below that but not lower than the previous day. To fix the order I go into each F2P created article and clear the created date and hit save. They then rise above the other articles on the front page where I want them or where they should go if posted by hand.

4. This is a big one! - On the View Edit entries screen the ability to check off multiple feeds or all feeds and then have them all list out in a big long list when I hit the items button so I can individually check the ones I want. This would save a ton of time since I have like 30 feeds listed and have to go into each on after another and pick the articles out that I want. Doing the keywords and cron job is not acceptible for me, I want to be in control of what feed articles post.

5. Option to disable full text all together. I don't use it for these feed articles and it messes with my template. (I disabled it myself as mentioned in a previous Support post in the Utilities.php file)

6. A Field to change the text that comes before the link. ( I modified feedpost.php to read: "the rest of this article at:"

7. Option to enable/disable date/time field and advertisement and choose where they go in full text or IntroText (again I modified the feedpost.php to remove the date/time field and advertisement from full text. I know in the current version you can turn advertising on/off.

8. A field to change the Link target= Option. I modified the code again to make my open to "blank" vs. "child" the default. I want the links to open to a new tab or page on my site.

Thanks again Mario for listening! F2P is getting better than ever with each update and has the potential to be Awesome!

LM

Thank you for the suggestions, they will be taken into account for the next releases.

Regards,
Mario - Feed2post coder

I'm just starting to use feed2post, and it's great. I second these suggestions, particularly the seperate feed title name. I too use Yahoo feeds without keywords and I expect this to get very confusing very quickly. Viewing all feeds together would also be a huge time saver. Thanks for the great work.

Thank you for the feedback, I'll be adding some of this items,some others won't be added (multiple listing, for example) as it would require a full rework, maybe for v3...
The separate feed title name I'd like you to explain a bit more on what's the requirement for this, as I don't seem to see the real utility/functionality of this, please expand the explanation as much as possible and I'll see if it can be done soon.

Best regards,
Mario

I'm relatively new to RSS feeds, so I might be missing something. Google RSS feeds don't display correctly for me in firefox, so I'm using Yahoo! feeds. I'm looking for very specific articles that don't necessarilly fall under something like "top news", so I am using feeds of news quiries that I create. Since I am using feeds with a built in query, I'm not using keywords in feed2post, making it difficult for me to distinguish one feed from the next. If I had the ability to assign a title to each of the feeds in feed2post, it would make it much easier for me to distinguish one feed from the next. Maybe there is a way to get to the root of yahoo news and use keywords from there, but if that is the case I'm not aware and the best approach seems to be use my query rather than using keywords on a subset of news.

Mario - I have one thing I would like to see added - the ability to set the expiration to weekly increments rather than just monthly. We're updating a lot of feeds, and to have them expire monthly would put a lot of stuff out there that we don't really need. Some feeds I would like to expire after a week because they have lousy feeds that rename the articles the same (i.e. Athlete of the Week) and if I don't expire the old ones, the new ones won't post. Also because old sports scores don't need to sit out there for a long period of time.

Thanks for listening.