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New Site Launched: www.motorbikes4sale.net

That’s right, another q292u site was launched this week, called Motorbikes4Sale.net. It does exactly what it says on the tin.

This site raised a bit of a problem: although it’s fed by RSS feeds, there is only ONE feed per manufacturer. So how to create tags for keywords that are NOT a category? Model Names, for example..

After extensive searching, and at one point even considering writing a cronjob plugin to do the job, we found “WP Auto Tagger”. This uses the Yahoo API to find suitable tags based on the post title and content. It works like a dream!


Byq292u

New Site Launched: www.motorbikes4sale.net

That’s right, another q292u site was launched this week, called Motorbikes4Sale.net. It does exactly what it says on the tin.

This site raised a bit of a problem: although it’s fed by RSS feeds, there is only ONE feed per manufacturer. So how to create tags for keywords that are NOT a category? Model Names, for example..

After extensive searching, and at one point even considering writing a cronjob plugin to do the job, we found “WP Auto Tagger”. This uses the Yahoo API to find suitable tags based on the post title and content. It works like a dream!


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SETTING UP CRON JOBS IN PLESK

My web hosts Unlimited Web Hosting use the PLESK system rather than CPANEL.
There’s no direct access to the Unix Shell, so you can’t directly use Unix CRON commands.

The solution is in PLESK itself. Select Domains, then the domain you want to add a job to. Now find “Scheduled Jobs”, and select a “System User” – probably the FTP user.
Click “Add Scheduled Job”.
In “Minutes”, add the Minutes you want the job to run, eg “15,30,45,0” to run every 15 minutes.
In “Hours”, add the number(s) of the hours you want the job to run, eg “4,8,12,16,20”, or “*” for ALL hours.
Same applies for the “Day” and “Week” fields.

So, for example, if you want to run a task twice an hour, every hour, every day, use the following:
Put “00,30” in the Minutes field, and put “*” in all the other fields. Simple, but not immediately obvious.

I now have proper CRON jobs running my feedwordpress systems, and also “DIGI AUTO LINKS“. I’ve timed them to minimise cpu use..

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