DISQUS

Adrian · 1 year ago

Hi, I found your blog looking for a solution to the duplicate title problem FreedWordPress causes. Did you managed to solve the problem by using this helper plugin? I want to use it too but I needed an opinion. Thanks.

creeva · 1 year ago

I tried a version literally the day it was released - it still had some issues with it. I've heard he made great strides, but to be completely honest I've given up on feedwordpress.

I have a friend that wants to rewrite feedwordpress (or it's functionality) from scratch but that's still months away. I can say what I do currently is setup a feedburner feed for the information I want to gather and setup an email subscription. At that point it posts as a draft to my blog and I manually edit it.

It's inelegant, but it's nicer then going away for the weekend and coming back to clean out 2000 duplicate messages.

Adrian · 1 year ago

The manual review is not an option for me. May I ask what were the issues?

creeva · 1 year ago

That's fine - I use it for life caching and my data input isn't too huge, so manual review isn't that big of a deal for me, but I understand the huge weight it can cause on others.

The problem I had originally is that the plugin didn't work quite right, after a few days I was still seeing duplicates, but they did lessen. At this point I just grew more and more frustration at feedwordpress and felt that this second developer shouldn't have to be making a secondary plugin to fix feedwordpress's inadequacies. The developer of the help plugin has updated it a few times since I've tested, so he is quite motiviated on getting this working properly.

Since it really is a niche function, I will probably tackle it again this summer, the fatigue of doing it where it seems to work for a few days and then breaks again - rinse repeat - is something I don't have the effort to try again.

I would highly recommend if you have the option to try this on a non production blog first to see what the results are before applying it to your main blog.