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Rad Geek just released a new version of FeedWordPress for WordPress.

Its a really great plugin for WordPress that allows automatic updating from RSS feeds directly into posts on your blog. I use the plugin on a couple of sites, and I have written about hacking it earlier to be more automatic; FeedWordPress autoupdate hack.

Rad Geek has now created another way to make my previous tip redundant, but as long as it works

Here are the highlights of the new version

Version 0.991 fixes some bugs that were present in version 0.99, adds a couple of minor features, reorganizes the file structure of the archive, and adds one very significant change. Let’s start with the significant change, which I am very happy to announce:

* WORDPRESS MU COMPATABILITY: FeedWordPress should now be compatible with recent releases of WordPress MU. Once FeedWordPress is made available as a plugin, each individual blog can choose to activate FeedWordPress and syndicate content from its own set of contributors.

And now on to the bug fixes:

* BUG RELATED TO INTERNATIONAL CHARACTERS IN AUTHOR NAMES FIXED: Due to a subtle incompatability between the way that FeedWordPress generated new user information, and the way that WordPress 2.0 and later added new authors to the database, FeedWordPress might end up creating duplicate authors, or throwing a critical error message, when it encountered authors whose names included international characters. This incompatability has now been fixed; hopefully, authors with international characters in their names should now be handled properly.

* media:content BUG IN MAGPIERSS FIXED: A bug in MagpieRSS’s handling of namespaced elements has been fixed. Among other things, this bug caused items containing a Yahoo MediaRSS element (such as many of the feeds produced by wordpress.com) to be represented incorrectly, with only a capital “A” where the content of the post should have been. Feeds containing elements should now be syndicated correctly.

* MAGPIE WARNINGS NO LONGER DISPLAYED BY DEFAULT: A number of MagpieRSS warnings or error messages that were displayed when performing an automatic update are no longer displayed, unless debugging parameters have been explicitly enabled.

Some minor bugs in the administrative interface have also been fixed.

Get the new version here.

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