plugin specifications

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Wordpress Plug In Specifications
Automatic Post Generator
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The Website
http://findmytrip.info/
 Website dedicated to find the best Travel Websites in the Internet.
 It works like Stumbleupon- User sees Thumbnails (posts) with an image, a
title and a category. When it clicks on it, it is redirected automatically to the
external website.
 Two main tasks on our side is to:
 1) Select the travel websites that we want to include in Findmytrip.info
 2) Post those links in our website, together with a category, a tag and an image
for the thumbnail.
 Plugin Objective: Ease and Industrialize the task 2) Posting the hand
picked websites in Findmytrip.info
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The Process of Selecting websites
 Websites that are selected by our team will be first stored in an excel file
with the following Layout
 For each CopyPasted URL, team will add Manually the URL of the Photo to
appear on the thumbnail, the Post Category and also Tags (can be several
categories and tags separated by commas)
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Number Article URL Photo URL Categories Tags
1 http://www.denverpost.com/styleheadlines/ci_20568453/5-reasons-visit-glenwood-springs?source=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site36/2012/0507/20120507__20120508_C3_FE08OWREASONS_1~p4.jpgUSA, Outdoors Denver
2 http://stophavingaboringlife.com/sturgeon-lake-bass-fishing-in-kawartha-lakes-ontario/http://stophavingaboringlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/sturgeon_lake_bass_fishing-720x537.jpgCanada, Outdoors Kawartha Lakes, Ontario
3 http://migrationology.com/2013/07/kanchanaburi-thailand-tour/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+migrationology+(Migrationology)http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5454/9073939864_058d88e1f4_o.jpgThailand, Asia River Kwai Bridge, Kanchanaburi
4 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/uk/9482551/Britain-in-summer-the-best-beaches-gardens-and-parks.htmlhttp://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02313/britain-london_2313058b.jpgUK London, England
5 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/10146102/Londons-best-rooftop-bars.htmlhttp://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02596/ME_London_Radio_Vi_2596616k.jpgUK London, Rooftop Bars, Bars
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Plug In Objective
Automatic Generate Posts
 The objective of the project is to create a Plug In Interface that allows to receive all the copy
past information from the excel sheet (multiple lines and columns) and to generate posts
screen scrapping the necessary information
 When Pressing the Button Generate Posts! The plug in will automatically generate as many
posts as URLs were in the excel sheet.
 To be discussed: Posting of these posts can be done all in one go or spaced of a few
minutes or spaced out throughout the day. Impact on technical performance?
Generate Posts!

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Title of Blog Post (extracted from Website)
For each automatically generated post, fields to be filled automatically in the post are:
First/Main Picture of the URL ((extracted from Photo URL)
1st
- My_site custon field- insert URL (copy pasted to the plugin user
interface
2nd
- Mytag custom field: insert website name (extract from URL)
Insert Categories
(from theUser Plugin Interface)
Insert Tags (from User Plugin Interface)

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For Video URLS (youtube)
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Title of Video (extracted from Website)
For each automatically generated post, fields to be filled automatically in the post are:
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Extract Video Embeded Code
Insert Categories
(from theUser Plugin Interface)
Insert Tags (from User Plugin Interface)
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Success Criteria- for text articles
A) For each URL in the Plugin Interface, plug in has to generate a
post(thumbnail) that
1) Has the Title of the article/post/page
2) Has the correct Categories and Tags
3) Has the correct Tag with the source website name
4) Has extracted successfully a Picture from the picture url
(B) Capability to publish as many posts as URLs copy pasted,
either in one go or spaced throughout the following hours (to be
defined with the developer)
C) Did not change the current Layout of the website.
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Success Criteria- for Video
A) For each URL in the Plugin Interface, plug in has to generate a
post(thumbnail) that
1) Has the Title of the video
2) Is correctly placed in the right categories page
3) Has the right tags associated to it.
4) Its playable from the thumbnail
(B) Capability to publish as many posts as video URLs copy
pasted, either in one go or spaced throughout the following hours
(to be defined with the developer)
C) Did not change the current Layout of the website.
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