automated import from blogger

I am looking for a way to make the Blogger importer tool run automatically to update a blog content category automatically.

I appreciate that Google does not like duplicate content, but the site I am making will not be a site that only has duplicate content. What my client wants is a means of consolidating all their content across the web in to one place- a bit like the way you can make your facebook updates go to twitter etc. Part of this is their Blogger blog, but also they will be posting things like their Soundcloud music and their Youtube videos and all sorts of other stuff. The 'Blog' section of the site is only a small part of this and the posts imported from blogger will be accompanied by site specific posts.

So just wondering if anyone has any smart ideas on how I could go about achieving this? Is this something I would have to do with a Cron job, or maybe it could happen in the background when someone visits the home page?

Any ideas most welcome :)

Topic blogger import automatic-updates Wordpress

Category Web

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Your best bet would be to auto-import the Blogger RSS feed. You'll set up a cron job in WordPress to check the Blogger site's feed for updates and, if they exist, create a new post with that content.

There are a handful of plugins already out there that will do this for you, but essentially, here's what you do:

  • Every 1 hour/2 hours/6 hours/whatever, load the RSS feed from the remote site.
  • Check to see if there are any new entries
  • If there are, use wp_insert_post() to create a new post with the imported content

There's a premium plugin called AutoBlogged that does this for you.

You can also use Feed WordPress to update your site from an RSS feed on whatever interval you want.

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