Craigomatic – Craigslist Automatic Post Generator Plugin for WordPress

Automatically import posts from Craigslist with ease

Important, read this before starting using the plugin!

Recently Craigslist improved its security policy, it is no longer displaying its content to browsers which don’t have JavaScript enabled. Because of this, scraping using the default WordPress downloading method no longer works. The plugin was updated to v1.3.6, where it adds support for PhantomJS and Puppeteer to allow the plugin to continue functioning.
Note that these are headless browsers and one of them needs to be installed on your server for it to work with the plugin.
If these cannot be installed on your server, the plugin supports also HeadlessBrowserAPI, which is a cloud based headless browser rendering service, which will also work for scraping Craigslist.

What Can You Do With This Plugin?

Do you own an advertising blog or you plan to create one?
Then, this plugin is what you need!
Craigomatic Automatic Post Generator Plugin is a breaking edge Craigslist To WordPress post importer plugin that is ideal for auto blogging and automatical Craigslist post publishing.. It uses the Craigslist native RSS feeds (so only legal content will be imported) to turn your website into a auto blogging or even a money making machine!
Content generated by this plugin, thanks to it’s ground breaking methods, is automatically considered as unique in term of SEO, by search engine bots.
Using this plugin, you can automatically generate posts based on a set of predefined rules. These rules can generate posts from:

• Predefined set of Craigslist URLs (search, categories, etc)
• Search query strings

Other plugin features:

• Google Translate support – select the language in which you want to post your articles
• Text Spinner support and spintax support for post title and content- automatically modify generated text, changing words with their synonyms (even if text is not in a spintax format) – great SEO value!
• customizable generated post status (published, draft, peanding, private, trash)
• automatically generate post categories or tags from marketplace items
• manually or automatically add post categories or tags to items
• generate post or page or any other custom post type
• define publishing constrains: do not publish posts that do not have images, posts with short/long title
• automatically generate a featured image for the post
• enable/disable comments, pingbacks or trackbacks for the generated post
• customize post title and content (with the included wide variety of relevant post shortcodes)
• ‘Keyword Replacer Tool’ – It’s purpose is to define keywords that are substituted automatically with your affiliate links, anywhere they appear in the content of your site. For example, you can define a keyword ‘codecanyon’ and have it substituted by a link to http://www.codecanyon.net/?ref=user_name anywhere it appears in your site’s content.
• ‘Random Sentence Generator Tool’ (relevant sentences – as you define them)
• detailed plugin activity logging
• scheduled rule runs
• Maximum/minimum title length post limitation
• Add post only if predefined required keywords found in title/content
• Add post only if predefined banned keywords are not found in the title/content

Testing this plugin

• You can test the plugin’s functionality using the ‘Test Site Generator’. Here you can try the plugin’s full functionality. Note that the generated testing blog will be deleted automatically after 24 hours.

Plugin Requirements

php CURL extension (install to Debian/Ubuntu etc with apt-get install php5-curl)

Need support?

Please check our knowledge base, it may have the answer to your question or a solution for your issue. If not, just email me at [email protected] and I will respond as soon as I can.

Changelog:

Version 1.0 Release Date 2017-05-12

First version released!

Version 1.1 Release Date 2017-06-13

Fixed some incompatibilities

Version 1.2 Release Date 2017-06-29

Fixed Google Translate

Version 1.2.1 Release Date 2017-08-22

Added a shortcode to display posts generated by this plugin

Version 1.2.2 Release Date 2017-09-12

Added search query support
Added rule pagination support

Version 1.2.3 Release Date 2017-09-27

Bugfixes

Version 1.2.4 Release Date 2017-10-22

Bugfixes

Version 1.2.5 Release Date 2017-11-07

Bugfixes

Version 1.2.6 Release Date 2018-04-14

Fixed issues with featured images

Version 1.2.7 Release Date 2018-12-16

Added nested importing support - import mixed content into a single post, from multiple plugins created by CodeRevolution

Version 1.2.8 Release Date 2019-01-15

Added Gutenberg block support

Version 1.2.9 Release Date 2019-04-19

Security update

Version 1.3.0 Release Date 2019-11-15

WordPress 5.3 compatibility update

Version 1.3.1 Release Date 2020-05-11

New features added for content templates
Bugfix update

Version 1.3.2 Release Date 2021-01-16

PHP 8 compatibility update

Version 1.3.3 Release Date 2021-01-21

Updated and working again after Craigslist removed RSS feeds

Version 1.3.4 Release Date 2021-05-23

Removed "QR Code Link to This Post" text that was added to posts

Version 1.3.5 Release Date 2022-04-20

Fixed Google Translator problem caused by a recent Google API update

Version 1.3.6 Release Date 2022-12-01

Added support for PhantomJS, Puppeteer and HeadlessBrowserAPI to allow scraping to work again, after Craigslist changed its security policy, now it requires JavaScript to be enabled when accessing their website. This will allow scraping to continue only if a headless browser is set up to help with scraping

Version 1.3.6.1 Release Date 2023-10-18

Fixed PHP 8.2 related errors

Version 1.3.7 Release Date 2024-03-13

Plugin updated to match latest Craigslist changes

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