Jun
07
Auto Social Poster Shared Logins Plugin
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I’ve just released another Wordpress plugin, useful if you’re using or thinking about using the Auto Social Poster plugin to automatically submit your Wordpress posts to the social bookmarking sites (such as deli.icio.us, spurl, furl, simpy etc).
What my plugin does is allow you to set up multiple Wordpress installs with Auto Social Poster, and have Wordpress automatically fetch your accounts from a CENTRAL URL just before it hands over to Auto Social Poster to submit to the bookmarking sites.
Requirements:
This plugin obviously only works if you have already purchased, installed, and activated Auto Social Poster.
Download:
To get this additional plugin free, see here.
Installation:
Installation of this plugin assumes that you have got Auto Social Poster up and running correctly. If you haven’t please do that first.
Once you’ve downloaded the ASP Shared Logins plugin:
- Unzip the ZIP file that you’ve downloaded, to somewhere on your desktop.
- Decide the URL where you want to hold your central list of accounts. Make this somewhere hidden away on your website. Do not make it password-protected.
- Edit the file wp-ayb-aspsharedlogins-url.txt to contain only that URL (you’ll see a demo URL there already - just over-write the demo)
- Save that file, and transfer both files to your Wordpress plugins directory, in your blog which holds your main social bookmarking accounts data. The files do not need to be in a specific subfolder.
- Log into your Wordpress admin and activate it in your Plugins admin screen
- Go to Options -> ASP Shared Logins
- Select ‘Export’
- Copy the data that is then shown, into a text file, and FTP that file to the URL you defined earlier. This file then becomes your master copy of the account data.
- For all your other Wordpress blogs that are running Auto Social Poster, simply copy the two ASP Shared Logins files to each plugins directory. That’s it. No more configuration to do.
Usage:
Any time you add a new account to the Auto Social Poster settings, go to the ASP Shared Logins plugin, export the new account data, and copy that data into your central text file via FTP or some web-based file management application.
That’s it.
If you want to change the URL where the account data is stored, you’ll need to log into each seperate copy of Wordpress and update the URL manually, in the Options->ASP Shared Logins page.
History:
June 11 2007. Version 1.1 - First public release.
June 15th, 2007 at 1:21 am
Canot download plugin the link in autoresponder after confirm sends me to this page again vs download for the plugin
June 15th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Hi Steve,
The download URL is in the first email you get from GetResponse after you confirm. I just tested, and could subscribe, confirm, get that email, and download the plugin within a minute or two, so I know everything works OK.
Regards,
Andy
June 30th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
What can we do to prevent public viewing of the wp-ayb-aspsharedlogins-url.txt file?
When you enter the url domain.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-ayb-aspsharedlogins-url.txt the file is viewable.
And, it leads to the password file which in turns show full list of all your accounts and passwords.
July 4th, 2007 at 8:26 am
Hi Byron,
Good point - thanks for raising it.
Just delete the text file. It’s only used for the initial settings, allowing you to set up a number of wordpress blogs very easily - just FTP the two files across, and enable the plugin - without having to re-enter the URL each time.
Hope that helps,
Andy
January 24th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
no link download for this plugin
admin, please check agian.i have subscribe but no download link
thanks
January 29th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Hi Hung,
It works fine from my end. You need to confirm that you want to be subscribed to the updates list about the plugin first, then you’ll get another mail with the download URL.
Regards,
Andy