SEO Content Factory 2.7.2 Adds Easy Subscription, Feed Notes, etc.
by Antone Roundy | SEO Content Factory
SEO Content Factory version 2.7.2 is ready for download with a few new features and a minor bug fix. Here's what's changed:
- Easy Subscription: instead of copying and pasting feed URLs to subscribe, you can now use a "bookmarklet" to subscribe in two clicks. Here's how to use it:
- Go to your SEO Content Factory configuration panel by clicking the gray gear icon at the top of the screen.
- At the top of the configuration panel, you'll see a "Subscribe" link -- drag and drop it on your browser's bookmarks bar.
- Whenever you're viewing a feed in your web browser, clicking the "Subscribe" link in your bookmark bar will take you right to the subscription form in SEO Content Factory, with the URL of the feed already entered. Just set any desired options and click the "Subscribe" button.
- Feed Notes: save notes about any feed, and have them displayed whenever you're viewing an item from that feed. You'll see a little arrow tab near the upper left corner of the content area. Clicking it will open the feed notes form. Enter your notes and click the up arrow to save and close the form. When the form is closed, the arrow tab will be blue if you have notes for that feed, and gray if you don't. One thing I use feed notes for is to save the Twitter ID of the feed's author, so I can easily @reference them when I tweet their posts.
- Feed Notes Access Control: with SEO Content Factory/WG, you can control who can view and edit feed notes.
- Feeds Without Titles: some RSS feeds don't have titles, so no title was shown for you to click in the feed list. These are now listed as "[no title]", so you can click to view all the items in the feed.
- Orphaned Items Bug Fix: a minor bug in the orphaned items code, added in version 2.7.1, which may have caused some error messages to be displayed, has been fixed.
How to Upgrade from Version 2.7.1
- Upload the following files, overwriting the old files:
- ajax.php
- conf.php
- configure.php
- content.php
- default-conf.php
- feed-list.php
- groups.php (WorkGroup version only)
- index.php
- install.php
- lobster.js
- styles.css
- update.php
- img/expand-notes-empty.png (new file)
- Follow the prompt to update your database the next time you load SEO Content Factory.
Enjoy!
September 4th, 2012 at 9:03 pm
Antone - I keep getting this error message when I try to update the database after installing 2.7.2 :
"Updating rssfeeds table...Duplicate column name 'feed_data'"
Can you tell me how to fix this - thanks?
September 4th, 2012 at 9:22 pm
Brett -- it looks like your database got stuck in a half-updated state. Try loading update.php directly (rather than clicking the update link), and add ?skipDBErrors=2 to the URL, so that it's something like http://example.com/SEOContentFactory/update.php?skipDBErrors=2
If that doesn't fix it, let me know.
September 4th, 2012 at 11:19 pm
I just did this with a new install. Went normally
The subscribe bookmarklet in firefox link does open lobster, but there is not a form displayed to add the feed
Manually clicking on the the icons in left frame to create new Feed or Folder produce nothing>
is it a file permissions issue?
September 4th, 2012 at 11:21 pm
the icons - Right click and Copy URL location
http://domain.com/lobster2/title.php#
September 4th, 2012 at 11:22 pm
Antone - this is the URL I used as per your suggestion above but it still produced the identical result - hmmmm! Next suggestion lol?
http://mydomain.com/lobster/update.php?skipDBErrors=2
Thanks
Brett
September 5th, 2012 at 7:50 am
Brett -- sorry! I missed one thing: you need to add "?skipDBErrors=2&doupdate=1" to the URL, so it's like:
http://example.com/lobster/update.php?skipDBErrors=2&doupdate=1
Jan -- I'll be putting out a fix for this in a matter of minutes -- sorry about that!
September 5th, 2012 at 8:05 am
[...] To upgrade from version 2.7.2, you’ll need to replace feed-list.php and conf.php. To upgrade from version 2.7.1, follow the instructions for upgrading to version 2.7.2. [...]
September 5th, 2012 at 5:33 pm
Thanks Antone - I'm fully up and running again - thanks for all your help ... Brett