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Does anyone auto update their blog content using cron jobs?

 

I've written about a years worth of articles and I was wondering if anyone has, would like to or now thinks it could be a great idea to auto-update their blog from a library operated by cron jobs.

 

I'm new to scripting and programming, and this is something I'm doing.

 

Any thoughts, suggestions, experience or otherwise to share?

 

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Well let's see. I have never defined any cron jobs for auto updating my blog but I have used the built in mechanism WordPress has to future publish based on Date & Time. I also did this when blogging with Movable Type years ago.

 

I have set up a cron job to poll an email account that I blogged through for a while (again in WordPress).

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Well let's see. I have never defined any cron jobs for auto updating my blog but I have used the built in mechanism WordPress has to future publish based on Date & Time. I also did this when blogging with Movable Type years ago.

 

I have set up a cron job to poll an email account that I blogged through for a while (again in WordPress).

 

Thanks! That's really cool. I loaded a word press page today from their site and I'm hosting it on mine. I also did the Fantastico install earlier this week, which was the click of a button.

 

What I'm doing with the Word Press install from today is merging Word Press with Vanilla (forums). I'm still at the editing php files phase.

 

If anyone wants to test the integration, directions are here.

 

Let me know if you get a version running with WP and Vanilla and I'll do the same.

 

 

 

Thanks for the WP tip, btw.

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