Fedafi RSS Wordpress Plugin Released
Fedafi RSS Wordpress Plugin (Beta)
Today we released the beta version of the Fedafi Wordpress Plugin. Find out more and download it FREE here
Features
Fedafi Wordpress Plugin is just that, a plugin for Wordpress, it creates a full text valid RSS 2.0 feed from your Wordpress blog adds a style sheet, tracks subscribers and tracks clicks on articles. Plus it will allow you to sell advertising space right in your feed through our publisher network
- Auto Creates a Valid RSS 2.0 Feed
- Full text feed
- Realtime update
- Valid RSS for IE7
- Fedafi Installs Easily
- Upload the files
- Activate the plugin
- View your stats
- Tracking is a key part of Fedafi
- Track overall hits on your feed
- Track unique hits on your feed
- Track by user agent
- Track clicks on outbound links by article
- See statistics by month
- Monetize your feed
- Activate advertising
- Get adverts from the Fedafi Publisher Network
Requirements
Fedafi Wordpress Plugin was developed on various Linux web servers, including Plesk and cPanel, that use Apache, PHP and MySQL using version 2.0.2 and above of Wordpress.
- Version 2.0.2 and above of Wordpress (hasn’t been tested on anything below this)
- A website on a Linux webserver with Apache
- PHP 4.3 or over
- MySQL 4.0 or over
- Ioncube loaders (included bundled with the install package)
Instal Fedafi Wordpress Plugin
- Download the plugin
- Upload to your Wordpress install
- Activate the plugin
- Adjust your template to the new feed URL or use a 301 redirect to it
Upload the files
Download the zip file and unzip, the contents will look like this:
Go in the root folder of your Wordpress install, this is the folder that contains wp-config.php
The folder named ‘fedafi’ needs to be uploaded to your plugins folder. You need to upload the whole folder so that your plugins folder now has a folder within it called ‘fedafi’
Activate the plugin
You now need to go to your Wordpress admin in your browser and click the ‘plugins’ link
Here you will see the ‘fedafi’ plugin, click the ‘activate’ link
If you now click the ‘dashboard’ link you will see a new sub-link called ‘Fedafi’
Click this and you will see your feed details
Redirect your feed URL
The URL to your new feed will be http://yourdomain/rss.php
You can edit your template to use this new URL or edit the .htaccess file in the root folder of your Wordpress install and add a 301 redirect
The redirect should look something like this:
Redirect 301 /feed http://yourdomain/rss.php
It must go above everything else in the .htaccess file.
That’s it! Fedafi will now track subscribers and article clicks
Licence
Fedafi Worpress Plugin is not GPL
- You are free to download it and use it
- You can’t distribute or sell it
- You can’t make derivitive works from it
- Copyright notices in the product must remain
For 99.9% of users this licence will suit them fine, it means it’s free as in free beer, we felt the need to do this and encode the source code due to the nature of our market and the nature of our competitors
Disclaimer of Warranty: The software and the accompanying files are provided “As Is” and without warranties as to performance of merchantability or any other warranties whether expressed or implied.
Support
For support please use the comment system below
We have just released v1.0.1 a few bug fixes and an extra feature:
- Bug: Leading zero on dates stopped stats displaying correctly **Fixed**
- New: Added a chicklet to display subscribers
To use the chicklet (which shows number of subscribers to your feed yesterday) you can add it to any HTML (such as the sidebar of your blog) using this code:
You can of course wrap it in ‘a’ tags to create a link to your feed as well.
Fedafi, are the developers of the Fedafi Wordpress Plugin and a stand alone RSS generator, an application that anyone can install on their own website and use to generate valid RSS and iTunes Podcast feeds. No technical knowledge needed, no XML to learn, absolutley everyone can now use RSS for their business. Add RSS as a marketing channel to your business today.
Plinkd Social Web Hosting Blog said,
December 30, 2006 @ 12:53 am
Feed Change to Fedafi Wordpress Plugin…
We’ve swapped the RSS feed over to Fedafi’s Wordpress Plugin so the address has changed, however we have put redirects in place so nothing should be lost.
……
Feed Stats From Your WordPress Admin Panel - WordPress SEO and Blog Marketing said,
December 31, 2006 @ 1:10 am
[…] WordPress bloggers can bring those stats closer to home with a new plugin. The Fedafi WP RSS plugin allows you to track stats on the subscribers, their user agents, and you can sell feed adverts through their publishing network. While it doesn’t sport as many features (or the community) of FeedBurner, it’s certainly a good alternative to look at. […]
marc said,
January 2, 2007 @ 7:53 am
I have downloaded this plugin twice. Both times the fedafi.functions.php file has been corrupted and that has made the plugin unusable.
Gary Reid said,
January 2, 2007 @ 11:37 am
The most likely cause of the corruption is your upload settings in FTP, make sure you upload files in ascii format not binary. Difficult to provide anything else without knowing more about your system.
OUTsurance said,
January 2, 2007 @ 4:19 pm
Hi,
In my technical incapacity, could I ask why this plugin relies on ionCube? I’m asking my host to install this and he mentions that he already has the Zend encoder installed, and if it would be possible to get a version that uses that. I have NO idea what is involved in that.
Would you be able to shed some light? Even if it’s only an explanation of why you’re only supporting the ionCube encoder…
thanks very much.
Gary Reid said,
January 2, 2007 @ 4:54 pm
You shouldn’t need to ask your host to install anything as the IonCube loaders are bundled with the package (the ioncube folder within the fedafi folder) so as long as that folder is present the loaders are loaded dynamically, ioncube doesn’t need to be installed in php.ini whereas Zend does.
So, that’s one reason why Ioncube - it’s easier and not all hosts support Zend. The second reason is Zend encodes everything as binary and if you upload a zend encoded file in ascii format (default for most FTP clients for PHP files) they corrupt. From our past experience Zend encoding causes lots of problems for this.
Once out of beta we may offer both as we do have the Zend encoder but really Ioncube is a much better option - no host changes needed, no setting php files to binary during FTP.
OUTsurance said,
January 3, 2007 @ 10:14 am
Hi.
thanks for the response. My issue seems to be that, even though the binary files are there, I still get the following error (I’ve added the …….):
Site error: the file ………/public_html/musings/wp-content/plugins/fedafiold/functions_fedafi.php requires the ionCube PHP Loader ioncube_loader_lin_5.1.so to be installed by the site administrator.
thanks again.
Gary Reid said,
January 3, 2007 @ 11:01 am
In the ioncube folder there are a few files that can help determine what the problem might be, try going to /ioncube/ioncube-loader-helper.php it will be in wp-content/plugins/fedafi/ioncube/ioncube-loader-helper.php
OUTsurance said,
January 3, 2007 @ 11:21 am
Sorry, should have mentioned that I tried that. Here’s the output:
(If you’d rather e-mail me, feel free to do so… thanks)
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Run-Time Loading Installation Instructions
Testing Server
Testing whether your system supports run-time loading…
Looking for Loader ‘ioncube_loader_lin_5.1.so’
Extensions Dir: . (/home/……../public_html/musings/wp-content/plugins/fedafi/ioncube)
Relative Path: /../../../../../../../../home/………./public_html/musings/wp-content/plugins/fedafi/ioncube/
Found Loader: /home/………./public_html/musings/wp-content/plugins/fedafi/ioncube/../../../../../../../../home/…………../public_html/musings/wp-content/plugins/fedafi/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.1.so
Trying to install Loader - this may produce an error…
Results
The Loader was not installed.
Instructions
Run-time loading is not currently possible.
If you require further assistance, please contact ionCube support providing
a link to this script.
Gary Reid said,
January 3, 2007 @ 11:28 am
Best to try uploading the loaders (ioncube folder) again, obviously you only need the two 5.1 loaders. Again try manually setting the FTP upload to first ascii and test then binary and test.
OUTsurance said,
January 3, 2007 @ 12:13 pm
Well, it would appear that DynamicLoading is not allowed on this server. I’ll just ask my host to enable it for me (and the rest of the users on this server). Thanks for your help though.
Here’s an error I get in the error_log:
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Dynamically loaded extensions aren’t enabled in …………………../wp-content/plugins/fedafi/ioncube/ioncube-loader-helper.php on line 407
[03-Jan-2007 11:18:12] PHP Warning: dl() [function.dl]:
janji said,
January 4, 2007 @ 11:55 am
after installing fedafi i had a problem with ioncube, too. after replacing the bundled ioncube with one from the ioncube-site everything works fine.
but there’s a littele problem with the rss-button in safari’s adressfield. after clickingt this to subscribe i get an error message because it links to “feed://www.janfehlis.de/feed/atom/” instead to “http://www.janfehlis.de/rss.php”.
Gary Reid said,
January 4, 2007 @ 12:11 pm
janji and all - thanks for the feedback on the loaders - it does seem as though the ones bundled either are corrupted or are getting corrupted during unzip/download/upload and it seems it’s only since we released the new bersion a couple of days ago, so we will be looking further into that today.
The Safari problem may be due to the ‘link rel’ in your template, if Safari looks for an atom feed by default then it will pick it over the RSS 2.0 feed.
Short term fix either edit the template and remove the atom link rel - or do a redirect of /feed/atom/ to rss.php
Long term we will also be introducing an atom alternate in the plugin, so it will create both RSS 2.0 and atom feeds.
janji said,
January 4, 2007 @ 2:45 pm
thanks for quick help. how can i redirect the atom feed to the rss.php? same way as the redirect for fedafi?
i’ve another problem. i get this message under “Article Clicks”/button “Change Rows”:
Warning: “Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /www0312/www.janfehlis.de/wp-content/plugins/fedafi/functions_fedafi.php on line 0″ in fedafi-dashboard.
Gary Reid said,
January 4, 2007 @ 4:36 pm
janji, bug noted, we have also put a support forum online which I think will help us all get things done quicker, it can be found here
http://fedafi.com/forum/
Jose said,
May 12, 2008 @ 7:16 pm
Hi
More than one year after this comments, I have problems with the ioncube.
What can I do, change the upload to binary? download the loader from ionCube?
What can you tell me about this?
Thanks