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XCloner - Backup and Restore plugin for Wordpress
XCloner for Wordpress is a new backup and restore plugin based on the popular JoomlaCloner plugin, the premium Joomla backup and restore plugin.
To download a free trial click here
Click here for the XCloner for Wordpress plugin page
XCloner for Wordpress Features:
Create full or partial backups based on your input
- Create ZIP or TAR backups based on your configuration input
- Posibility to exclude components, modules, mambots from your generated clone
- Posibility to exclude directory and files from the backup, manually or through cron settings(AJAX powered)
- Create backups based on a cron task, created backups can be stored on the local server, remotely through ftp or emailed
- Delete backups older than a certain number of days
- Ability to manage existing backups, rename/delete/move, publish to user frontend for sharing
- Possibility to clone any backup to another location, it can be done automatically by using the server functions or manually
- Configuration area lets you choose on how to generate backups based on your server possibilities
- You can choose to create backups by using only PHP, or by also using some server utilities to speed things up
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SmartRSS Plugin
New Version Updates 04.02.2008
- added CURL support for the feeds retrieval
New Version Updates 11.10.2007
- added import feed posts minimum character limit
- added import feed post limit
- compatibility with the latest version of wordpress 2.3
- added post filter for removing unwanted advertising imported from feeds
SmartRSS Plugin is a Wordpress plugin
Transform your blog into an automated posting tool by syndicating with multiple RSS feed sources!
Features:
- administration tool for managing rss feeds
- each feed can be assigned to a specific category
- after importing the feed, you may display related feeds by using the provided code below
- cron job for importing feeds as a scheduled period
Package contains:
- smart_rss.php file - the backend plugin
- wp_smartrss.php - the cron job file which does the import
Installation:
- upload files smart_rss.php to the wp-content/plugins directory of your wordpress installation
- go into your Plugins administrator tab and activate it
- you will be able to access the plugin backend by going to the Options tab -> the SmartRss subtab
- upload wp_smartrss.php to your wordpress home path, for security reasons i would suggest you rename this file to something you like
- to start importing fields go to http://sitename/wp_smartrss.php url, if you would like to do this automatically you can setup a cron job to run that file
- to setup the cron job use a code similar to this:
"nice --adjustment=19 /usr/bin/php /$full-path-to-the-file/wp_smartrss.php"
or
"nice --adjustment=19 /usr/bin/php /$full-path-to-the-file/your_file_name.php"
- if you would like to put this file somewhere else on the server, you need to edit the line from the file wp_smartrss.php containing
require_once('wp-config.php');
and replace it with something like
like require_once('/$full-path-to-wordpress/wp-config.php');
where $full-path-to-wordpress is the full path to your wordprss installation folder
Related Articles Display
- to display the related articles add this code in your single.php page from your template directory:
< ?php related_posts(5, 10, '<li><b style="font-size:14px;">', '</b<', '', '', false, false); ?>
Function parameters: smartrss_related_posts(limit, len, before_title, after_title , before_post, after_post , show_pass_post, show_limit)
- limit = the related posts limit to be displayed
- len = if show_limitis set then it will limit the post size to $len words
- before_title = html code to add before post title
-after_title = html code to add after post title
-before_post = html code to add before post
-after_post =html code to add after post
-show_past_post = include posts that are password protected
-show_limit = limit the post text to $len words
Demo link: http://www.devplug.net
Download it here now
Happy syndication:)!!!
Blog
After reading on inessential.com about Brent Simmons reverting to his own blogging system:I tried Wordpress for a little while on this weblog since I wanted to have comments. And last night I switched off Wordpress, back to my homegrown static-rendering system.For comments I'm trying out Disqus. The cool thing is that it works via Javascript includes, so I can still have a static-rendered site.I decided to try Disqus too. It was very easy to install on my static pages, just a few minutes work modifying the page templates.Looking back through my archives I noticed I switched off comments over 5.5 years ago because of increasing amounts of spam, which was a pity because it was always good to get some feedback on posts. I am currently writing my own blog publishing app using ASP.NET MVC and LINQ to SQL. I am sticking with static pages because performance can be a little slow with dynamic pages on a shared hosting system, and I don't want to break any of my existing links (I'm still on IIS 6 and so routing is not as flexible as it would be with IIS 7).
Moblin
Intel and Nokia have announced that the Moblin and Maemo projects will be merging into a single mobile platform called MeeGo, which, like Moblin, will be hosted at the Linux Foundation. "MeeGo blends the best of Maemo with the best of Moblin to create an open platform for multiple processor architectures. MeeGo builds on the capabilities of the Moblin core OS and its support for a wide range of device types and reference user experiences, combined with the momentum of Maemo in the mobile industry and the broadly adopted Qt application and UI framework for software developers."See also: Quim Gil's post on the merger.
Sixteen

Something I read reminded me that this blog was coming on four years. According to my old WordPress and my current Joomla admin thingdoodles, I have done 1,600 or so posts to date, or about one a day, including weekends and holidays.I don't really take advertising, except for the odd favor for friends or to drive my own businesses, so the sum total of my ad revenues via Google AdSense has been something like $118. If I do the math right -- big IF -- I think that works out to something like seven cents a post. A post takes me about 20 minutes on average, sometimes a lot longer, so I think that means I am doing about 21 cents an hour on this thing. Clearly, I'm a brilliant businesman.I've had a number of people asking about advertising on the site and maybe I will do it, maybe I won't. I have to weigh money against the optics and whatever obligations I may feel to then write about the advertiser or be nice. I do press releases for piles of people via pressDOOH and most never get on here because this isn't meant to be a news site. To the credit of all those clients, none have suggested they figured that was part of the deal.ONE of these days I will cut over to WordPress and wave Joomla a not terribly fond farewell. Spare time is an issue, for me and my gracious hosts at ITES, who are also stinkin' busy. I also haven't done it yet because I am sorting out in my head what to do with Sixteen:Nine. There are some really interesting Web applications emerging, and I would love to see how these could apply and make this corner of the DS world a lot more of a two-way thing, and also better use real time streams of information.So ... thinking about that. All ideas welcomed.Thanks to all those who've sent me notes or stopped me at a trade show and passed on kind words. I'm particularly gratified when I take companies to task for something and they get that it's not personal. There's been the odd time when I've met people and thought, "Ok, is he going to crush my typing fingers when we shake hands???" But people have been overwhelming cool and professional.I have been writing in serious spurts lately, dropping off for a week, and then doing 12 posts in three days. Depends on if I am traveling. Depends on how crazy-busy I am (been seven days a week all month, but that's a good thing). And more than anything else, it depends on whether anything interesting is shaking.Thanks for reading. There is waaaaaaaay more stuff out there now from business news sites and smart bloggers who aren't just peddling company wares. It was pretty much me and Gerba back in the Jurassic era of digital signage. I still think there's a need for looking ahead and around the corners, getting beyond the obvious, poking holes, and pointing out the great and the goofy.read more