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  Old  BlogSense Fall 2011 Updates Review

Hey Guys, It's been a while since my latest post but BlogSense is still very active and it still respected as a state of the art curation and automation software for Wordpress. Let's take a look at some of the latest updates:

PULL CONTENT FROM ANY SOURCE USING SHORTCODE & KEYWORDS
I’ve finally added in a new shortcode that will allow BlogSense to attempt to find and source content from any site using a shortcode + keyword combination.
The shortcode looks like this:
{customsource:http://www.amazines.com:%keyword%:1:<div><p><span><font>< br><ul><ol><li><b><strong><i><u><table><img><a>}
and the parameters can be defined as so:
p1: Defines the shortcode
p2: Defines URL to pool results from.
p3: Defines the keyword to search the url for results.
p4: Limits how many content items are returned from source.
p5: Defines the HTML tags to preserve.






NEW SHORTCODE - [IFNOIMAGE][/IFNOIMAGE] - ALSO, EXTRA BROKEN IMAGE DEDECTIONS ADDED

We’ve done a quick update that adds the following:
Broken image detection

In past circumstances, whenever we would use image generation shortcodes within our content postbody sometimes no image would be generated and this would cause a broken image to be left. Until now we’ve had to circumvent this issue by using 3rd party broken image detection plugins, and luckily it happened so rarely that it was not too big of an issue.
To better perfect our systems we now check for these broken images and remove them before publishing. You may have also noticed that now 3rd party plugin shortcodes are previewable within BlogSense’s preview mode.

If no image is detected then…

We also now have a shortcode called [ifnoimage][/ifnoimage] that, if used, checks the postbody to see if any images are present and if they are not then whatever is enclosed within the shortcode is included within the postbody template. This will help ensure our content has images when the syndicated content does not naturally contain any.
Here’s an example bit of code that demonstrates how we might use this shortcode:
[IFNOIMAGE]{googleimg:%title_filtered%:1:275px:300px:first}[/IFNOIMAGE]
%postbody%






CREATE CATEGORIES FROM KEYWORDS LIST


We’ve two new features added into BlogSense along with some inner code improvements. We’ve added the ability to use a keyword list to create WordPress categories. This used to be a BlogSense feature until it was discontinued about a year ago. Good to have it back!
The other feature is the ability to enable/disable the automatic tagging system on a campaign level. Before we had a singular global setting to manage our auto-tagging strategies. Now we can better control tag behavior.
What can we do with autotagging?

  • Disable auto-tagging entirely.
  • Use Yahoo Terms Extraction to create tags from the post content.
  • Use parts of the title as tags.
  • Use tags already found within the WordPress database, selected at random.
  • Use a custom tag list pasted into a textarea.
  • Control the amount of tags to use for each post.

We can also use CSV tokens to create tags for our CSV Importing module.

Here’s a video demonstrating the latest updates:
Create categories from Keyword List, Enable / Disable Auto Tagging of Posts for each campaign. - YouTube


BLOGSENSEWP SWITCHES FROM GOOGLE TRANSLATE API TO BING TRANSLATE API

BlogSense supports Bing Translation API!

Hello!
Over the last month, anyone working with the translation features of BlogSense may have noticed that campaigns were halted because of the inability to translate content.
The news related to this phenomenon is that Google has disabled their free API based translation service in favor for a paid translation service.
It is our intention to eventually offer the option to either use Bing’s free service or Google’s paid service, but for now we have introduced Bing’s API based service to restore translation features back to BlogSense users.
Which service is better? I have no clue and have done zero case studies. One would think that because of weath & pride, Google would produce a superior translation service, but hey, Microsoft is a pretty altruistic and powerful company as well. It just might be that Bing’s service is superior!
API limitations and throttling

BlogSense does provide an application ID for global use, but there are use limitations available to each APIKey. It might be prudent to grab your own APIKey from Bing.com. BlogSense provides a settings area within the Automation->Global Settings area where you can paste in and overwrite the default api key with your personal api key.
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