RSS Post Importer - Options

Options

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To find the RSS Post Importer settings, navigate to Admin Dashboard → CM RSS Post Importer Pro → Options.

There are two tabs - Plugin Options and Plugin Diagnostics.

Plugin Options

On the first tab you can find the following options:

• Processing batch size - Number of RSS feed items processed by WP-Cron job at once. Learn more about this option: RSS Post Importer - Limiting the Batch Processing size
• Restart Processing CRON - Clicking on this button will restart the task responsible for processing the feeds. Learn more about using this option: RSS Post Importer / RSS Aggregator - CRON Troubleshooting
• Run RSS Processing - Clicking on this button will run the task responsible for processing the feeds.
• Keywords exact match - All capital letters will be taken into account during searching for keywords.
• User agent - User agent used to fetch RSS feed. Some servers block access to theirs resources when queries are made by WordPress - you can try to fool them by changing user agent. Learn more about this option: RSS Post Importer - Changing User Agent
• Delete Fetches - Click to delete fetches.This options does not delete already imported posts - only fetches. This option can be useful in case if there is some broken RSS, so you can use this clear the RSS queue. It can also be used to clear the database from time to time, to not overload it. Note: this option was introduced in version 1.5.6.

  • Choose the RSS - In this dropdown you can choose either to delete all fetches or only fetches of some definite RSS. Note: this option was introduced in version 1.5.9.

    

• Delete Posts if they was deleted in RSS Source - When the option is enabled, imported posts will be removed from your feed if they were removed in the RSS source. Note: this option was introduced in version 1.5.7.

Don't forget to click the button Save Changes.

Plugin Diagnostics

The second tab is Plugin Diagnostics.

The plugin depends on WordPress Cron - a service that schedules events to be executed at regular intervals, so make sure it's running correctly. You can retrieve advanced log information by choosing the problematic feed in the dropdown list and clicking the Fetch button.

ChatGPT

Next tab is ChatGPT. This feature allows you to generate posts with unique content based on the RSS feed content.

• Enable Chat GPT - Turn on this option to activate ChatGPT feature.
• Chat GPT API Key - Enter here the API key obtained from OpenAI site.
• Chat GPT Model - The plugin supports two versions of ChatGPT which you can choose - GPT 3.5 Turbo and GPT 4 (beta). Have a note that currently the version GPT 4 may not be available for you as it is in a limited beta stage and requires joining the waitlist on the OpenAI page.
• Chat GPT Reply Length - Set the maximum length of the reply requested from the ChatGPT. This value is set in tokens. Warning: longer replies use more tokens, so you can reach limit faster. Learn more about Pricing Plans.
• Chat GPT AI Temperature - This option allows to define how accurate the generated content will be. This value ranges from 0 to 2. Higher values like 0.8 will make the output more random, while lower values like 0.2 will make it more focused and deterministic.
• Chat GPT AI Role - Here you can define the role for the Chat GPT assistant to make your content more specialized. This way, if you define the assistant as an expert in some certain area, it will generate the content related to your main topic.
• Chat GPT Prompt Title Template - Specify the request which the plugin will be sending to ChatGPT for generating new title for the article. Important: this template must contain the following placeholder: {rss_title}.
• Chat GPT Prompt Content Template - Specify the request which the plugin will be sending to ChatGPT for generating new content for the article. Important: this template must contain the following placeholder: {rss_content}.

These settings are the default ones. For each added RSS feed you can enable or disable the ChatGPT integration and override some of the default settings.

Learn more about the ChatGPT integration in this use case guide:

• RSS Post Importer - Use Case - How to Automatically Generate Articles Based on RSS Feed Content Using ChatGPT

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