Comments on: Adult blogs and money - Discussion thread

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:20:08 +0000

If I have a bunch of content e.g. the stories, text files, pictures and videos etc, does anyone know how to create an RSS feed from this that I can get wpomatic posting this content daily? I don’t have access to the resources section so I can’t use the script in there.

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:24:21 +0000

Drop me an email
adultproject [at] ideasbeta.com
with the url of your site and I’ll take a look

By: marceia

marceia — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:40:21 +0000

I thought I had this fixed, but I don’t. Has anyone else had the issue of all their RSS posts hitting at once via WP O Matic? How have you fixed this?

I thought is was because I didn’t have a datestamp, but I have corrected that and the issue still occurs. Any suggestions?

By: marceia

marceia — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:52:24 +0000

I think I answered my own question. I haven’t used your RSS creator, but I did look at what your script does. I notice that yours inserts a date stamp on each feed item. My script didn’t datestamp.

By inserting a datestamp so that each item has a different day attached to it, WP O Matic will not throw them all up at once.

My bad.

By: Marceia

Marceia — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:08:05 +0000

Alan,

Once problem I’m having is that when wp o matic pulls my RSS feed, it posts all my items in a relatively short period of time. I have my Cron Job set to once a day, and in options, have it set to check the RSS once a day (1 day 5 hours 0 minutes)

What do i need to do to have 1 post a day?

thanks.

By: kkhan

kkhan — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:18:06 +0000

Yeah, Hostgator support said they enabled DNS wildcard support, but still no dice. Subdomains created by WPMU still don’t exist, can’t even ping them. So either they did something wrong, I’m doing something wrong, or it’s something else. It’s just hard to know exactly with shared hosting :).

I think I will just manually create subdomains for individual Wordpress installs for now, with the intention of getting at least a VPS in the near future and moving to WPMU. Just trying to look at ways to scale this process in the future if I achieve some decent preliminary results.

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:06:47 +0000

To setup WPMU with subdomains on a shared account, you will need to ask to your host support to have wildcard DNS set for your domain. But it is possible to do with Hostgator, look at Wordpress support forums.

Usually with shared account, the activation of wildcard DNS is done only if you request it, so you need a bit of effort to setup WPMU with subdomains, indeed.

So it really depends on how many domains you will setup. If it is only a few, you can take the time to setup subdomains.
Anyway, if you intend to create a lot of domains, I wouldn't recommend shared hosting, but in this case just go with subdirectories.

By: kkhan

kkhan — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:15:57 +0000

Forgot to mention, WPMU with *sub-domains* is what I can’t setup on shared hosting, but I can set it up with sub-directories easily, which is why I asked.

By: kkhan

kkhan — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:13:50 +0000

Hostgator is actually the host I’m using :). They certainly don’t restrict sub-domains, and after reading your post I will definitely use them instead of sub-directories. Thanks for taking the time to write that up.

What I’d like to be able to do eventually though is use WPMU for this project, and WPMU is a bitch to setup on shared hosting (tried for a long time with Hostgator’s support, to no avail).

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:19:36 +0000

I created a new post to answer to your question : http://www.ideasbeta.com/subdomains-or-subdirectories

I have to admit that I have never used a cheap host which would put big restrictions on subdomains, so I guess my answer would be : change hosting, even hostgator $5 basic account let you set unlimited domains and subdomains without problems.
http://www.ideasbeta.com/hostgator-promo.php (this is an affiliate link to redirect you to the current promotions)

Anyway, another solution for you is to use free URL forwarding services. (e.g. ulimit.com)

TIP: when registering a domain, choosing a blogname or free URL redirection address, always put your keywords in the name you choose (no more than 5 keywords). It will boost your chances of being listed high in google. But… Usually you will find out that most interesting terms are already taken… No worry, just pick the one you like and add a digit at the end (0 to 9). You will still get good love from Google.