Errors with Rss Magician

[IronClad]

Hi Scott,

Could you help me with this problem please. I only purchased Rss Magician yesterday and I've been trying to get it to work for about 6 hours now.

I have "feedwordpress" installed/activated on my Wordpress blog and that works ok on it's own, but that defeats the whole object of buying Rss Magician to manipulate the articles to help to reduce the chances of duplicated content.
 
Am I using Rss Magician properly?
 
When I use Rss Magician to create a feed, I then copy the generated link at the bottom into the Syndication Feed box in my Wordpress - but it will not accept or recognise it. Am I doing this wrong?  I was under the impression that when I did this, it would automatically post the generated articles into my Wordpress blog?
 
If I paste the generated link from Rss Magician into my web browser, I do then get full articles pulled from the chosen article directory and manipulated as required/set in Rss Magician. Is this the way that it is supposed to work and then for me to select the articles/content  that I want and then copy and paste them into my blog posts manually?
 
The reason I ask is because I was under the impression that the generated Rss Magician feeds/links could be entered into my Wordpress syndication and that the articles could then be posted automatically. Have I got this all wrong Scott?
 
I also get the following error message as well:

XML Parsing Error: no element found
Location: http://www.uk-digital-products.com/rssmagician/rss.php?source=rss&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fig%2Fadd%3Ffeedurl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fezinearticles.com%252Frss%252FAutomotive.xml&rewrite=._Sample+Dictionary.csd&sentences=1&contentappend=sample+text+1.txt&titleappend=sample+text+1.txt
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I thank you in advance for your help and advice and hope to hear from you soon. I did check to see if you had any video tutorials (like you have for your other software tools) but could not find any.

[Omar]

RSSM can not post anything on your wordpress blog. Imagine the RSSM feed like any other feed (just that it has full articles instead of just one sentence). Can your wordpress automatically post content from any other rss feed? As i know posting automatically on a wp blog require additional plugins (i think is one called wp-o-matic) or software (like rss2blog). RSSM will always just generate a feed, but to automatically post a feed content on WP is done on WP side. You should first be able to automatically post content of feeds on wp and then you can add a rssm feed too.

[IronClad]

Omar,

I purchased RSSM expecting that I'd be able to paste in the feed that RSSM generated into my Wordpress CMS so that I could then post the selected  articles on my blog. Why else would I buy it?

I seem to get parsing errors as well - to which I've mentioned, but had no response to.

I asked a simple question as to whether the resulting article/s that are sometimes generated when I click on the link and then displayed in my browser, should I then get it into my Wordpress blog by copying and pasting each one into a post from my browser. This question is being ignored.

There is no video showing how to use it correctly and the instructions are vague - for me anyway!

As it stands, Rssm is of no value to me.

Omar, I do not expect rssm to AUTOMATICALLY post articles to my WP blog. I do however, expect the FEEDs that it generates to work on my WP CMS as does other feeds.

When I put your generated feed into my Wordpress - it simply does not work!

MY ISSUE IS THE RSSM FEEDS ARE NOT WORKING ON MY BLOG. IS THIS RIGHT?

[Omar]

I am not sure how exacty you want rssm to work in your wp, or how the other feeds work. I have latest wp installed too and i don't see any place where i supposed to enter any feeds. Where exactly you put those feeds? What menu? Do you already have a plugin that should autopost or something like that?

To answer your questions exactly.

You get parsing error because some of the feeds that you try to mix are not feeds. http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fig%2Fadd%3Ffeedurl in the link that you posted does not look like a feed to me. You can mix only valid rss urls.

You can do with rssm feeds whatever you like. You can just copy the text and paste in the posts, or you can use it with other plugins, software, etc as long as those are able to work with rss feeds. RSSM just create (after scrape, mix, rewrite, etc) the feeds and gives you a link. It does not do more.

[IronClad]

This is what I am doing:

1) The plugin that I have installed on wp is "feedwordpress". It puts a menu on WP called "Syndication".

It allows feeds to be entered. I normally grab an rss feed like say "http://www.recipezaar.com/rss/" after doing a quick search for something like : "spicy chili recipes +rss feed".

I then put this feed into the feed box in "Syndication" and click "use this feed".

It returns a sample, which I then click on the "use this feed" button.

I then update it and specify how often I want the feed to update in the "syndicate -> Options" menu.

All the articles/feeds are now saved as drafts on my WP and are ready for me to edit and/or publish.


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2) Parsing Errors:

As an example, I enter this same feed "http://www.recipezaar.com/rss/" into RSSM: "Get content from a single RSS feed:"  (1st box at the top of rssm)

Rssm then generated this link/feed:

"http://uk-digital-products.com/rssmagician/rss.php?source=rss&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.recipezaar.com%2Frss%2F&rewrite=._Sample+Dictionary.csd"

*** The lnk above is not displaying the whole link - it is only showing part of it. You may need to go through the process as I have described above to get the full generated RSSM link/feed! ***

This is the result that I get when I click on that generated RSSM link/feed when I copy and paste the generated link into my browser or just click on the link:

XML Parsing Error: no element found
Location: http://uk-digital-products.com/rssmagician/rss.php?source=rss&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.recipezaar.com%2Frss%2F&rewrite=._Sample+Dictionary.csd
Line Number 1, Column 1:

This is the same result that I get in the following browsers:

AOL
Flock
Firefox

As far as I know,  I'm  doing NOTHING wrong?

I get this nearly all the time. It is using up so much if my time and basically driving me nuts.

I really believe that the problem lies with RSSM.

Please will you kindly contact me regarding this as I cannot continue using the rssm with these results.

Thank you.