CaRP Evolution version 4.0.21a is ready for download, with updates to the Podcast plugin.

First, you can now choose to play podcasts using the HTML5 <audio> tag instead of the Flash-based audio player.

However, right now, even some of the major browsers that support the audio tag don’t yet support MP3 audio with the tag. So this [...]

CaRP Evolution 4.0.21 and Affiliate Afterburner/WP 2.1.2a are ready for download. The change to Affiliate Afterburner/WP is simply that its copy of CaRP Evolution was updated.

SEO Content Factory will also be updated with a new version of CaRP once I’ve finished adding some new features to it. In the mean time, you can update SEO [...]

CaRP/WP (a free WordPress plugin that works with CaRP) is ready for download.

This revision includes two minor enhancements:

If the path to carp.php that’s specified in the administration panel is incorrect, it attempts to find the correct path before reporting an error.

Removal of line breaks and HTML tags inadvertently added to configuration settings by WordPress has [...]

Lobster (SEO Content Factory) 2.3 is ready for download. Changes in this version include:

YouTube support:

View YouTube videos inside SEO Content Factory.

Embed YouTube videos in your blog posts.

Includes a tool for easily generating search- and username-based YouTube RSS feed URLs.

NOTE: The YouTube plugin requires CaRP Evolution’s YouTube plugin, which is included in the RSS Super Pack [...]

CaRP Evolution version 4.0.20 is available for download. This update adds the following enhancements:

A new option for removing invalid characters from feeds to prevent XML parsing errors. This option is disabled by default for performance reasons because most feeds don’t need it. If you’re seeing XML parsing errors related to invalid characters, see the documentation [...]

An updated version of CaRP Evolution’s MySQL plugin is available for download to fix a bug that caused some items to be duplicated in the database or marked new after having been read.

Users of Lobster/SEO Content Factory should upgrade CaRP’s MySQL plugin. A minor update to Lobster is also available for download, which addresses the [...]

CaRP Evolution version 4.0.19 is ready for download. It fixes a few bugs and other issues:

Replaces the depricated PHP function “ereg” with “preg_match”.

Fixes a bug in truncation that occurred when the original content ended in a broken HTML tag.

Fixes a bug in JavaScript handler removal.

A bug was fixed in the MySQL plugin that sometimes caused [...]

The YouTube plugin for CaRP Evolution and the YesTube add-on script have been updated to work with changes YouTube has made in their feeds.

To upgrade the YouTube plugin:

Log in to the download page.

Under “CaRP Evolution”, click “Individual Parts”. Then click “Plugins”.

Left click “YouTube” to download the updated plugin (if you right-click and “save as”, save [...]

I’ve got a few nice uses of CaRP Evolution to show you today. (If you’d like me to link to a page where you’re using or writing about a Gecko Tribe product, submit your link here.)

Rodrigo Fernandez uses CaRP to display the latest news about Costa Rica on his Costa Rica Photos site.

Corwyn uses CaRP [...]

Especially now that I’m giving CaRP Evolution away for free, I thought it might be useful to make a video to help people get a better idea of what you can do with an RSS parser.

For years, CaRP has been my “secret weapon” for easily inter-linking my websites together and reusing my own content, as [...]