Posted by Mario Mansour in TubePress
In the course of the code rewrite, It appears that I forgot to implement a important feature of TubePress which is the ability to check for duplicate videos. A tool to automatically import videos from youtube is nice, however a useful tool is the one that allows you to do it in a smart way. Nobody wants to fill their wordpress database with the same video1 even if it matches to multiple criteria. Thanks to Alin for reminding me of this feature, which by the way is already implemented.
I added it as an option actually so you could choose to either check for duplication or not (although I doubt that someone would uncheck). This option is therefore set by default.
1Note that TubePress cannot in anyway distinguish the content of the video, it just checks the video id so if the same video is posted on youtube many time with different ids (different urls) it will pass the duplication test and would be imported. Youtube itself cannot solve this problem so I don’t you should be too worried about it.
Well, in case you are, I suggest that you choose carefully and wisely your tags when you import to avoid duplications. Not to mention that you could always go to your admin area and delete any post or page that you don’t like.
August 9th, 2008 at 7:24 am
Mario seems that the pluggin is not compatibile with the older one, now i do not get that content with [id]… now .. i get the video description but everywhere video is missing .. you can see bellow :
http://musicoverload.org/eminem-superman/450.html
http://musicoverload.org/d12-eminem-my-band/454.html
.. and any older posts from musicoverload.org as you can see is musicoverload.org is based on tubepress
August 9th, 2008 at 7:27 am
one more think even that Check for Duplication field is markt he still puts duplicate content
August 9th, 2008 at 7:37 am
you think that on a future release you can fix the add my favourite videos ? because right now if i have more than 10 videos i cannot import them. the maximum video number that can be imported from favourites is 10. also you can add a field to import only new videos by a tag. cause currently as i see it imports just the most relevant videos.
August 9th, 2008 at 8:18 am
@alin: the upgrade function was creating a good excerpt for the old post but not including the video player in the content. This is fixed now.
Also I wrote a patch function which should restore the old posts and add the video player to the content. Please try it and let me know.
Regarding the favorite videos, as far as I’m aware of youtube sets a limit of 10 favorite videos. But I will check out if they made some changes.
October 5th, 2008 at 6:34 am
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