How to use Feed to Post feature in Feedzy

This guide covers how to use the  Feed to Post feature available in the pro version of the Feedzy RSS Feeds plugin. For more details about the plugin, please check the main documentation first.

By using this feature the content within the feed can be imported as posts on your website.

How it looks like

The imported posts will be listed on the blog page, alongside other posts. The styling of the posts is controlled by the WordPress theme that you are using.

Import tasks can be created in Dashboard > Feedzy > Import Posts.

Let's see what can be set in each step of the wizard.

1

Sources

Step 1 - Sources

Here you should add the URL(s) of the source.

2

Filters the posts by keywords

Step 2 - Filters

Posts can be filtered only by the title. You can choose to either select or exclude posts based on certain keywords within the title.

Choose how many posts do you want to be imported each time. Feedzy automatically checks the feed and import only new posts every 60 minutes. So, by choosing 30 posts, you will get a maximum of 30 posts imported every 60 minutes. 

Imported posts can also be deleted. That will happen again for ceratin groups, so for example, for all posts imported 4 days ago.

3

Magic tags - customizing the post structure

Example with the post content and link to the original article - available with the Personal license key

Example with the full post content - available starting with the Developer license

All the fields in details

Step 3 - Assign

Check the numbers within the screenshot and the explanation below.

1. What type of posts to be imported. You can only choose one. If you need more, create another import task with the same settings except for this one. 

2. As any post in WordPress, the imported ones can be assigned to a certain category(categories). Of course, you can change that after the import. This field is for automatically assigning a certain category to the posts that will be imported.

3. Posts status. The new posts can be automatically published, or you can set them to draft so you can check and manually publish them.

4. Post title - choose which information want to be assigned as the post title. You can add more than one.

5. Post date - this is the date when the post was imported on your site.

6. Post content - This is the structure of the post content. This setting will affect how the posts look like on the single post page on your site, rather than the blog page.

7. Featured image - If you want the featured image to be imported fill in this field, otherwise, leave it empty.

8. Post author - There are two options available here. Checking the "In the backend" box will add the original post author name of the feed item in the dashboard (without creating a new user for it), while "Link to the original post in the frontend" box will add the original post author name of the feed item on the frontend, where the posts are displayed. As the name of the option suggests, the author name will link to the original source from the feed. 

Now that we went through all the steps of the wizard, here is some useful information.

A few limitations based on the license key tiers

Custom scenario after importing posts - giving credit to the original author

How can I add such a link when listing posts on the blog page? This requires custom code. Fortunately, the code is available below.

add_filter('post_link', function($url,$post) {

   if ( is_admin() ) {
      return $url;
   }

   $current_post_meta = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'feedzy_item_url', true );

   if ( ! empty( $current_post_meta ) ) {
      return $current_post_meta;
   }

   return $url;
}, 99, 2);

function new_excerpt_more($more) {
   $current_post_id = get_the_ID();
   $current_post_meta = get_post_meta($current_post_id);

   if (isset($current_post_meta['feedzy_item_url'][0])) {
      return ' <a href="' . $current_post_meta['feedzy_item_url'][0] . '">Read More</a>';
   }
   return $more;
}
add_filter('excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more');

Troubleshooting

If something doesn't work as expected, it might worth checking the Feedzy Troubleshooting guide. It covers the first checks that we perform in such cases.