Introducing SteemPress beta, a wordpress plugin for steem

in #utopian-io6 years ago (edited)

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If you’ve been following @fredrikaa and I, you’ve probably seen that we are working on a wordpress plugin for steem. Well, it’s time for me to show you the code and share some more details.

The need for a wordpress plugin

First of all, why do we need this? Steemit.com is already providing a site for bloggers and adoption is growing fast. However, onboarding new users is still a main area where there is a room for improvement. Furthermore, onboarding writers who already have an audience will also help multiply our reach. People like @davidpakman is a great example, who has invited his audience and promoted steem outside of the platform through videos like this

Today, 29% of all of the web traffic goes to wordpress-powered websites. So if we want to reach a large number of people, wordpress is still the place to go.
So, what if you as a blog owner could automatically share your posts to the steem blockchain directly from wordpress to get all the added benefits that the blockchain has to offer? It would help you gain a new audience and by having your followers come to steem to upvote your posts it could also guarantee a second source of income.

Hence came

Steempress

Steempress is a wordpress plugin that will publish whatever you write on your blog directly to the steem blockchain. The best part is that Steempress will also automatically handle the conversion from wordpress's html code into steemit's markdown! Meaning that you will not need to make the extra edits that would be necessary if you were to manually post both on steemit and on wordpress, the plugin got you covered! ;)

Obviously, Steempress is still in beta, and so the conversion is still being improved. Therefore, it can still be a little janky sometimes so you might have to delete one space here and there. This, however, is mostly very minimal stuff caused by some corner cases that we don’t handle, yet. This we will look to improve over time as we get more testers and more users!

Features

  • Custom Conversion from html to markdown to fit steemit's syntax
  • Automatic posting of your articles on steem whenever there is a new post
  • Self-vote when posting an article

Roadmap :

V1 :

  • 50% sbd or 100% powerup
  • Tags that can be set for each post
  • Optional self vote
  • Perfect the conversion to handle a maximum number of corner cases.

V1.1 :

  • Filters to avoid posting some articles if they contain x keyword in the title
  • Post old articles
  • ? Please tell us in the comments what you would like to see !

If you're curious you can download the source code

Technology Stack

Steempress is split in two parts :

Php

There is the php part, which is the plugin itself, it's where all of the configuration happens. We query the wordpress bindings to known when you publish an article, read them to get the text, title etc and then send it to the api.

Nodejs

The api is written in nodejs, it's what will receive the data from the plugin, convert the article to markdown and send it to the steem blockchain via https://github.com/steemit/steem-js

How to install it ?

@scottyeager made a great guide I suggest you head over there to check it out.

How to contribute?

If you have questions, feel free to hit us up : @howo or @fredrikaa on https://steemit.chat

We have a dire need for more testing and feedback, we've tested this with very few people and we'd love to hear what you think.

And if you publish an article and see some conversion errors, it would mean the world to us if you could send us the html of that article so we can improve thanks to it.

If you feel like working on your own directly, feel free, just submit a pull request and we'll go from there. There are no specific rules, try to follow the coding style and put comments on unclear functions but that's it.



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Fantastic work! I had created the SteemPress repository a few months back via Utopian but I never found any developers for it. Good to see you took over the job.

I think the most important feature for this plugin is the total takeover of wordpress and making it into a proper Steem website. So just posting to the blockchain is by far not enough. It should replace the comment section entirely and include SteemConnect and upvoting directly on the page. If you can pull this off than you have developed one of the most impactful tools for Steem!

Keep up the good work!

Wait so you're the one behind steempress.com ? if so dm me we are looking to buy the domain :D Also I agree with you, and it's in the works to have steem totally integrated with the WordPress websites like you said.

Thanks for the kind words :)

No, I had no clue about the URL. I just coined the term and created a task request on Utopian for my idea which was never followed through. That’s all. All credit goes to you guys.

I'm the founder of https://SteemThat.com and will be testing this plugin very soon. The only thing we are really missing is upvoting and commenting and resteeming... Looking forward to testing this out. I was watching the Original SteemPress and nada. No one has wanted to tackle a full integration on this level yet.

We allow members to publish On SteemThat and use a separate script to publish to Steemit. I'm interested in allowing our community to stay on our website and interact with the blockchain. Would love to speak with you about this more @howo. We currently feed data to SteemThat.com and would also like to modify this some.

Oh by the way, we do have a few founders spots open if interested after you visit.

Takeover Wordpress? Steemit does not have the scope or even the purpose of Wordpress websites. In a Wordpress website I decide the theme, the menus, the purpose. Wordpress is not just a blog. That is a minimal use of Wordpress. Wordpress has many functions. BTW, what is a proper Steem site? Could you provide a link to a "Steem site"? If there is such a thing as creating a Steem website, I would be interested. Being on a blockchain, I would not have to use a host for my website with it's online store, blog, sections for my book (pages that are not "lost" after a certain date), event calendar, registration, connections to PayPal and credit cards and cryptocurrency payment. Steem does all this?

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Cheetah bot will punish it. You have to do it other way. Steemit to Wordpress !

Doing steemit to WordPress does not solve the problems we want to address and does little to onboard new users.
If a significant amount of original authors start to use the tool then it will be cheetah that has to adapt, not SteemPress. How they do it is up to them, but I can imagine a whitelist people can get on whereby proving that they own both the steem account and the blog website, cheetah will ignore the domain of their blog when searching for duplicates.

A somewhat simple solution to that would be some tag in permalink when posting through steempress that would identify such an article and skip cheetah and steemcleaners check.

Sadly this wouldn't work because nothing prevents a spammer from manually adding whatever steempress adds. The effort has to come from cheetah.

like a tag to your username on steemit

That is what we had with @recrypto's plugin. We entered the permalink as part of filling out what tags we wanted to use and other information that was relevant to Steemit.

ha ha ha funny comments sir...

haha
nice reply
worth it
upvoted
:)

nice comment sir.. this could be great solution for next. keep good working sir :)

that would be the best solution

@fredrikaa that could work

good aspect sir

I would still like to embed my steemit newsfeed to my website on wordpress. It will give a visibility of steemit outside of it.

Hello, I am new blueskymaster, I like your work, give you a lot of praise

We must return to the vision and mission of the steemit community, the quantity must indeed increase but the quality must be the focus too. How to build the quality in steemit community development, we need to build and organize the infrastructure network of every community that spread all over the world. Fostering the spirit of the struggle is so important that people volunteer on the basis of the development of regional, local and group communities.Of course we really understand the word of "appreciated and award" of the practice of the word should be more effective, some time ago an award has be difficult to share, especially the award on comment category (probably because the price sbd and steem start expensive) so there is a hard counted. Then how about a good comment then dried up with an empty award. WordPress is indeed a community crater, it's not wrong. But many communities that have been woken up then cold down and generally is beginners.

You want Steemit to adapt...? Yea good luck with that buddy. Great idea, but pretty much a dream plug-in in terms of having the 'BlockChain' it runs on, adapt to 'it'.

Cheetah and other initiatives like steemcleaner might definitely be a problem, but I confident that if you go to them first and be like "hey don't flag me I'm just duplicating my own content" it'll be fine. :)

What about an option to post on WP blog 7 or 8 days after it is published to Steemit?

but there is a problem some spammers are flagging our posts because we are promoting our websites in our posts and these persons are continuesly flaging our post because they told this is spam but i give the proof about ownership of website to steem but steemit team not helping us check my blogg @themarkymark is the main person who are flaging all those peolpe who are ading there websites link in his post please help us about this pbm

You are a spammer and a content thief.
You were not flagged because I didn't like you.

and is there any charges for ur plugin

cheater will do same

No because they can't prove ownership of the content they steal.

we are happy to now about this plugin because this is helpfull for us but if u did't do any thing about these peoples otherwise ur plugin is floop

And how does one notify Cheetah and prove ownership of the content?

Perhaps it helps to add our Steemit names on each of our Wordpress blogs and to add a Link of the Wordpress article on the Steemit article. I tried this twice and had no reactions of cheetah any more. In both cases I improved an old narration which I had written under another name before. A fellow Steemian told me it might be safer to quote the with text with the symbol >

I'm confused here. I know lots of people who do as I do and copy and paste our articles from our website blogs into Steemit. I've never been flagged. Why would I? It is my own original work. My url is also my steemit username. Maybe that is why I am not flagged....

Yes @mmmmkkkk311 I would like to feed that way as well (Steemit to Wordpress). Will this ever be possible?

For me it should be a two way conversion. Users of WP can automatically convert to Steempress andSteem users can convert or link to wordpress will be the best way for both world.

Wow, that's great news! A lot of value for me as a technical analyst blogger!

Here's a little what I do, hope I can give you some insight:

https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@benkalashnikov/stellar-lumens-xlm-analysis-80-potential-profit

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Great Update For Wordpress Users

I can't see the necessity of embeding an orthodox content manager with a totally new concept like steemit.
Steem has made its own way to merge content with blockchain idea. Let's stay innovative

Being leader is good and being the innovator is best thing. This plugin will persuade those already established influencers to have one more channel and steemit community benefit from onboarding new people.

Well, to be honest I actually think that even with Cheetah bot on the board right now, we can assure that everyone can post on the wordpress as on steemit in the same time which looks like a great opportunity here!
Im 100% sure that we will find out tons of people using this tool, however all is needed is to "avoid" cheetah somehow :) Obviously we need to wait for some time to see things going on like that, however I truly believe that we will see this plugin working totally well as soon as possible! Cheers :)

If you publish to your blog and Steemit at the same time, then Cheetah can't use the search engine to determine if you used your blog as the source, because it won't be there yet.

However, Cheetah has said there is a way to keep him from tagging your own blog.

Hi deanlogic, what is the way?

I've never looked into it, because Cheetah doesn't harass me much anymore.

What a great Plugin, willing to try this on my blog...

I just tried it, let me know if you can get it working, nothing has shown up just yet...

Similar to cheetah the google robot will also punish duplicate/plagiarized content. So google will decide which website is more likely the original author. One way to do it is what content they discovered first.

So in order not to loose your owns blog organic traffic (steemit will be visited more frequently by google robots as most Wordpress blogs) I suggest a setting where users can set a delay time. Let’s say after publishing on the blog the plugin will post to steemit 12 hours later. Should be easy to implement.

This is from a SEO (search engine optimization) point of view quite relevant. Let me know if you need help or need more information on this issue.

Nonsense. There are a standard Wordpress plugins for Google, Instagram, etc. that have been around for years, just like for Joomla (which is what my website was for years until I switched to Wordpress). Google knows what they are. It is in their reference material for how to set it up so that Google knows it is really you. In fact, Instagram surprised me this last time by not posting my article until I went in Instagram and was asked was that me. I clicked on the button that said Yes, that was me. Then I had to go into Wordpress again and post for Instagram again and it worked. This is not all new stuff. I've been posting from my Website blog to social media for the past 7 years.

It makes more sense to distribute content from wordpress to all social media channels, SEO 101 builds links centralized to your site which can build traffic due to backlinks.

yes really its amazing feature cheetah is angry with this.

but will it bitconnect ???

Awesome work. Integrating into WP is so important. One more step into become mainstream go to platform.

I think we're building something really great here! Can't wait to start bringing our new tool in front of as many bloggers and wordpress users as possible! :)

Dude This is what @fyrstikken requested 2 years ago according to steemit.com Thank you so much man!
https://steemit.com/steemit/@fyrstikken/write-a-steemit-plugin-for-wordpress-get-rich-work-fast-huge-demand

and now the REST of this message is NOT directed at you Fredrikaa, its just to Steemit Inc or Stinc as we call them on http://steemspeak.com the LARGEST steemit Chatroom(with VoiceChat) in the WORLD

Dear steemit inc,
You have a website that shows steemit posts with dates that say "2 years ago" when the website itself isnt even 2 years old! WTF show the actual DATE on the post!
WOW @ned should see how steemit posts now show up as Older than Steemit itself! maybe Fyrstikken really IS a time traveler to have a steemit post from 2 years ago when Steemit itself is less than 2 yers old still! :D And This has said 2 years old now for a few days so it must be OVER 2 years old by now if it was already 2 years old a few days or weeks ago actually, I had notcied this bug months ago honestly. ANYWAY we need to show the actual DATESof the articles and not some "1 year ago , 2 year ago., 8 months ago" nonesense, lol it needs to give us a dte, nowhere on here does it even show us thje date, so i guess we have to use busy.org or steemdb just to find WHEN an article was posted? Thats very bad very very bad, no wonder people would rather just use Wordpress now and post to steem with a plugin :D Hey just kidding but seriously it sucks that we have to contemplate making a new front end, we dont want to have to, but maybe we do... its just that s steemit.com look i wish they would just tell us when the hardfork is coming... whats up? whats going on? Whats the time frame on smart media tokens?!?!! Whats going on?? DO we even get communities anymore?? What about the December 2017 iOS Steemit App that @sneak showed everyone at the Steem Presentation in real life somewhere? What hapened to all the news?!?! Is anything still happening?!?! We are sitting here pulling our hair out wondering when we can sign new users up and we want POW account creation like teamspeak had and we want to have you guys fix steemit! COme on lets hardfoirk or find out whats going on with the hardfork! You guys realize we have to all vote on it as witnesses and we have a lot of steempower now and we want just some basic answers about the roadmap and we dont CARE if it takes all year to release the hardfork, but we WANNA know whats going on! we were promised something consistent with previous hardforks,ad now its Januray and siull nothing>? this is getting VERY close tothe VERY last minute and we want something and We want


Here is a map of the human brain that can help show us how that outer edges are the highly complex CPU type areas, that middle part is like another pattern of neurons like hippo campus its the Memory like RAM part, or maybe something else i dunno the computer analogy is strange here, but yeah u cn see the outter edges are where the good high complexity stuff us, wow its very very clear from this image and look at these human brain cells that look like organic circuit boards

Com hangout on http://steemspeak.com the LARGEST steemit Chatroom in the WORLD with @gyzimo powered @curioity bots that can send youmoney from discord account to discord account uysing steem and golos sbd and GBG, and soon other altcoins, AND we have @banjo and other @inertia bots that allow you to find prices of coins, Wolfram alpha data, accounts data, inflation data, all sorts of cool stuff you can do on Steemspeak.com discord chat 24/7 Steema nd Golos Graphene Voice and Text chat!

Sure, what do you want to talk about?

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I don't really care either.

Guys, I love this as I'm a big time Wordpress lover. I develop websites all the time and it's my primary platform of choice. My customers love it too. #Winning The Steemit community definitely needs this plugin. 100%

Thanks a lot ! :D

Looks great. How do I get that plugin? Thanks Guy

Thanks!
@scottyeager already made a short guide on how to get started which you can read here. Hope you will find the tool useful and looking forward to hearing what you think about it :)

Wow, looks very nice :-) ... This is how it works. Thank you!

I am followed you !!

Hopefully its greater than bitconnect was. FML

its good for me. i have installed and testing on my blog. still feel something missing.

I am followed you

Hello followed you ! I'm howo :D

This is so exciting to hear about. I've been creating Wordpress sites for 9 years. I'd love to be a beta tester. I'm brand spanking new here but I've been copy & pasting posts from my blog and @cheetah has been killing me even when I post a link.

It's really cool what these guys are doing. My fear though is cheetar. Won't it always point the post as to being a copied content?

Cheetah and other initiatives like steemcleaner might definitely be a problem, but I confident that if you go to them first and be like "hey don't flag me I'm just duplicating my own content" it'll be fine.

Hello :) Fantastic Work !! Hope you have a lovely week ahead!! I am followed you! :)

That seems like a legit starting point.

Cheetah will probably tolerate it if both posts cross reference each other. For example, in Steemit: "A version of this post has also been published on my [blog](insert link)" and in your WP blog: "This post has also been published in [Steemit](insert link)"

You would think so. We'll find out.

Ideally, it could have the option to post to Steemit 7 days before it posts on the blog. I'd LOVE LOVE that feature. That's exactly what I'm already doing, but am doing it by hand.

good idea

See this example: Customer Service Recovery

More like linking it as a canonical URL?

@acdevan, saw you posted this 5months ago, were you able to make any experiences on this already?

You said it! Very exciting times. Will follow.

It's a fantastic idea @fredrikaa can't wait to see it in action! Good luck with the process!

Thank you for the contribution. It has been approved.

Can it work the other way around? Publishing post on steemit automatically transfers the post to wordpress blog?

Not yet, but we are thinking of making a complete steem integration onto wordpress.

Cool :) blogging portal with automated steem cross-posting both ways would be awesome :)

Thanks!

Your welcome :)

Yes, I would like to know that too. Being a non-computer user, most of what was said above sounded like I should understand it, but I'm pretty sure I don't. When I think I know what wordpress is, and then try to explain, I don't know. I don't consider myself that dumb, but for thirty years I always had a junior or secretary to do this computer stuff, and I can barely use my Android phone, ai ¿
This us why I'm going on in many comments about indexing. With indexing, anyone at any level of tech, might find or research out, of present tags, or archives, just the post that gels with their level of understanding.
Keep on keeping on. 😇

The whole process is unnecessarily complicated, very soon the plugin will be on the wordpress plugin store and it'll be super easy to get it :)

If this kind of platform developed it would be great help for housewives.

This is a big win for Steemit! These new tools will grow the user population exponentially!

And the more users the more potential tools ;)

I’ve been using WordPress for a while now. This is going to be huge!

Great work

This is great, I think this can literally begin a new chapter in steemit adoption!

Very interesting, I'm going to have to test it out!

Thanks, please keep us updated on your findings :)

Awesome! I've been thinking that an integration between WordPress and Steem makes a lot of sense, and voila, here it is!

I'll do some testing with my own WP site and report back with my findings. While my dev skills are pretty basic, I would love to help with tutorials/documentation. Let me know if you have any specific needs in that regard. Thanks!

Yeah, we had the same thoughts as you. STEEM has so many benefits for people way beyond steemit.

Happy to hear that you will give it a try! Looking forward to hearing your experience with it :)

Yeah that's great news for people who have a blog following. Hopefully it will translate into referring a lot of their visitors over to Steemit.

I think we've all be kinda thinking about it without really digging into it that much.

Well your feedback would be great, especially if you can spot some conversion errors and send me the html of the post you published.

A tutorial/documentation would be awesome ! I think that your own experience with the plugin would be useful for others. For instance if you can document the questions/problems you had and what was the solution. It could turn into some kind of FAQ, it would be very neat.

An installation tutorial might not be that needed because soon we'll be available on the official store, but a tutorial on how to configure it (where to find you private key etc) would be very useful !

Here's a getting started guide I created today as I got everything set up for myself. I went ahead and documented install along with setup and usage, since there's actually a pretty easy way to do it through the front end.

This was straightforward and worked as advertised. I made some notes about important limitations to understand at the end of my guide, which could be a good start for an FAQ.

I'll do more testing of complex posts soon.

Great! I will document my experiences, questions, and any problems I can find.

I am followed you

hello.am just beginner,hope to see you some othe time

Hi @howo ! This is an amazing feature and plugin, and once working it will bring the attention of hundreds of thousands of bloggers if not millions.

This will help mainstream the steem blockchain, it will be incredible I believe.

Congratulations on the huge project!

Regards, @gold84

I would feel better about a WordPress WYSIWYG plugin into Steemit...but not a separate website where you just blog all your own stuff. That kinda makes you into a "silo" site where you don't benefit from the community. I come here to blog/write, but also to read what others have to say that's interesting.

I would be against any tool that directs you away from this site.

Ah, so happy this is being developed. I just started digging into steem over the last couple weeks and as a wordpress designer/builder i see SO MUCH potential for a proper steem-WP integration.

I'd love to share a bit about where i can see this headed, beyond simply auto-posting WP posts to Steem.

Where I think this can truly shine is in integrating Steemconnect to the WP userbase, so people can automatically sign up and in with their steem credentials. With SMTs and the upcoming steem widgets, we could then easily replace WP comments with Steem comments, and even add upvote buttons to specific bits of WP content.

Beyond a blogging platform, I primarily use WP for building app-like experiences where people are logged in. For example, WP-based online courses could benefit from this greatly.

Another thing thats really great about WP is that we can go beyond mere blog posts and create highly customized interactive content/experiences. How amazing would it be to be able to add an upvote button to a WP page or piece of content? For example, here's a WP experience I created last year: https://coursesworthsharing.com - being able to integrate experiences like this with steem would be a godsend.

I'm sure there are some big techincal hurdles to this, especially when it comes to integrating steem users w/ WP users, but i cant see why this isnt all possible.

It would just be so awesome to be able to embed upvote buttons, comment areas, etc anywhere you want via shortcodes.

There's so much value and creativity that can be harnessed with WP sites that goes way above and beyond simple blog posts. I'd love to contribute to getting this type of content cooperating with steem in any way I can.

Thanks for getting the ball rolling - and thank you @adept for bringing this project to my awareness :)

Thanks a lot for your thoughts !

Having steem completely integrated with wordpress where people can post, comment and upvote and everything is linked to the steem blockchain is definitely the end goal. This is only the first step.

So yes more than getting the ball rolling, I'm also following it and kicking it some more :D

great plugin.... hope this will bring a lot of new user on steemit

I've been using this plugin, I love it, but I've been finding that it doesn't integrate well with the Busy.org platform. It seems to work well with Steemit, though. I find in Busy, it rearranges things, especially pics. Often it creates symbols in paragraphs that shouldn't be there.

Thanks for the feedback ! Can you provide a few links with posts with problems that you mentioned ?

sorry, I fixed them manually! I wished I had saw your post before I had. If it happens again, I'll be sure to send you the link!

I'm bvack... sorry, I was just checking a post and saw that the arrangement was changed a bit, no biggie, but here is the link: https://busy.org/@skiponline/alittlepeevedoff-gkazllqhoy The original from my wp site link is at the bottom of that post!

No worries, I still have the original text, I just wanted the link to know which one. It's always better to fix them than to do nothing.

Thank you sir @howo

This is a nice feature and great step for tying Steem into WordPress. I would most want to see Steem Connect integration to allow for working vote buttons, Steem based commenting, etc. from my own WordPress sites.
Rather than just copying content to the blockchain, I’m more intrigued by the possibilities of a plugin that pulls blockchain content as well, so that anyone with WordPress can create custom styled personal sites or curated topic specific community front ends that pull from Steem.

Those are very interesting ideas ! In the future we will probably experiment on some of those :)

Thanks.

Have to be careful with wp plugins, putting too much on one ends up becoming a completely custom theme and install. Simple plugins for bloggers - ability to post from Wordpress, steemit feeds for Wordpress, woocommerce steem payment gateway. That’s 3 plugins, any more? I’d also be concerned steemit comments and votes might negatively impact optimisation on a Wordpress blog, that’s more for full on dApp ...

I’d love to see a developer tackle it... I wish I had those skills! I’ve dabbled with the overall concept, but lacking the knowledge of how to pull blockchain content directly I simply wrapped articles within iFrames to mock up the concept. steemcomicconvention.com is me playing around with such a site, curating comics community content.

My thoughts exactly.

Wow, this is great, makes a lot of sense....

Useful tool for all WordPress bloggers and site owners..

Will definitely be testing it out, see how it works...

Keep uo the good work

Sounds like a game changer!

That's because it's one :D Thanks

I think it's a wonderful idea...I'll probably use it when...
you make the installation process more simple to understand...
...I have ZERO idea what you were are talking about.
HOWEVER..
it seems like an excellent idea and I might even start a WordPress Blog
when it gets easier to install and understand.

Check out my guide here. Walks you through step by step getting the plugin installed, configured, and using it. You will need a WordPress site first, and setting one up is not covered in the guide.

thanx...I'll be sure to do that.

I'm sorry about it, in the future it'll be a simple press of a button from the wordpress store. But for that we have to go through a review process (the wordpress people want to make sure that we aren't pushing something harmful ).

Since there is a lot of interest in it, I'll probably make a more in depth tutorial on how to install it.

yay...
I'm looking forward to it with gleeful anticipation.

Even i will connect the plugin to my existing wordpress blog.

smart

can it also work other way - i post on STEEM and get stuff on my blog?

steemit allows not only markdown but also html, will it not fail?

amazing job, just asking since i have a blog off steem, and this would help me loads.

can it also work other way - i post on STEEM and get stuff on my blog?

Not yet, but we are thinking about integrating steem to wordpress. So stay tuned ;)

steemit allows not only markdown but also html, will it not fail?

What do you mean ?

amazing job, just asking since i have a blog off steem, and this would help me loads.

Thanks a lot for your kind words :)

This is a massive thing @howo . I'm so happy to hear about this. Coming from the blogging world it is a bit difficult to wrap my head around steemit. You are so right about onboarding new users in an easy way. There will be no disruption or learning curve for them. Further, i think they will use the plug in as an add on to their current methods and not worry so much about participating in the steemit community just to earn money. A real win win!

I agree. Any need to learn a whole lot about the Blockchain fundamentals and how STEEM works is a barrier to entry for a lot of potential users. We should do our best to lower it as much as possible to ensure that those who can benefit from STEEM can do so without needing to understand more than they have to, just like you shouldn't need to know code to use a computer.

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Fantastic! I have been waiting for this. Will be testing later today.
Did install your previous version from WP directly, now to get the fresh one from gitHub, install on @britcoins personal Wordpress which I yesterday freshly installed with a Bridge template. Will make a post to show how it goes and see that it likely solves the issues I was having.

Awesome work guys!!! Wordpress is huge..really appreciate all the hard work you have done for Steem/Steemit

Thank you for the encouragement!
It was great listening to you and the others during the Witness Forum! So keep it up you too :)

Oh, and one more question. Will it be possible to use this interface also for SMTs later?

I can't tell right now because so little technical infos have been given for smts.

This can/will be a great tool for many bloggers here. Will test it out soon and see how the implementation works. Thank you!

Thanks a lot for your interest, please tell us what you think of it :)

Awesome! Will be great to have your feedback too :)

This is a great Project, really good idea which helps a lot of people share their articles. I'm a very newbie in the blogging world and I'm wondering about duplicate content for SEO you know.. By posting the exact same article you might penalise both of them in terms of visibility on Google. I'm curious.

Great project!

I installed a plugin which promised to do stuff like posting old and new posts on Steem blockchain. I tried but it didn't work. It's been 7 months that I have been inactive on my personal WordPress blog (ilyastarar.com) and that is because I am on Steemit for the last 7 months.

This plugin promises to bring my blog back to life without compromising my Steemit goals so I am big on this one! Thank you and good luck! I will try it and give feedback.

Ah the other plugin project ? Yeah the owner shut it down. Please keep us updated on your experience :)

Obviously didn't work for me. I am going to uninstall and it and use yours. I have an idea for you or any developer. Okay I'll make a Utopian contribution on the concept. Let's see.

Great! One problem I see down the road is with edits to the post on WordPress after 7 days.

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Interesting post, I hope the widget will work awesomely!

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Oh, thanks, I'm following right now!

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didn't know you and @fredrikaa had interest in wordpress too..awesome work you guys ! :)

I had started some work on a wordpress plugin for steemit few weeks back - GK Steemit Info: https://github.com/mcfarhat/GK-steemit-info

At the moment, it allows placing configurable widgets and shortcodes with some steemit info, including posts per user and steemit user count.

I still have future plans for it, but haven't had the time to work on it further.

Feel free to check it out, reuse the code or whatever helps you, and if you guys need any help feel free to reach out, I know a thing or two about wordpress :)

Keep it up guys!

Thanks a lot ! I will look into it, it'll definitely be usefull soon.

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thank you very much , appreciated . you are supper bro.

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This is definitely something that I'll be working on in the future. markdown doesn't support image resizing and most of the time wordpress article have a fixed size for their images and it can cause the formatting to be broken when converted.

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Steem Press beta is glory of Steem.

as here for you merrily, I support you all and love))

The name is awesome!

Thanks :D

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Under the heading "Steempress" you use the word "the" twice in a row accidentally.

"The best part is that Steempress will also automatically handle the the conversion from wordpress's html code into steemit's markdown!"

Small mistake I thought I'd point out.

Glad to help :)

Thanks ! Incredible that I missed that afte re-reading it so many times :p

I am really excited about this plugin, I love Wordpress and the ability to syndicate to Steemit will open up a host of opportunities such as allowing bloggers to post to Steemit using Wordpress's robust post scheduling feature, and even via email and desktop apps like blogdesk.

Had a few teething problems whichh is to be expected with any beta, but I contacted @howo on Steem chat and he pushed a new plugin version within minutes of me contacting him that had built in tests to find out what was causing the problem. Nice guy and great support, can't wait for V1 to be released! :)

Thanks :D

Bright future of Steem Press Beta.

very interesting. I'd like to try it too.

Thank you so much for this. I want to test this as soon as possible!

@howo and @fredrikaa well done! This plugin might be what I needed to upgrade my WordPress MarketingBytes.io blog to a support tier where I can choose the plugins. I did have a question though around duplicate content and getting dinged with your SEO page ranking. From what I understand, Steem is a platform that can be crawled by Google/Bing/other search engines. If that is the case, would cross publishing to Steemit actually hurt your main blog's SEO? If so, would you think it's worth it to put a canonical URL in your blog pointing to the Steemit post as being authoritative, or do you think it just wouldn't matter? Would love to hear your thoughts around this matter. Thanks!

Thanks for your interest !

would cross publishing to Steemit actually hurt your main blog's seo ?

Potentially, we've never actually noticed that. but in theory it might.

If so, would you think it's worth it to put a canonical URL in your blog pointing to the Steemit post as being authoritative, or do you think it just wouldn't matter?

No don't do that, if you put a canonical link on your main blog pointing to steem then you basically nuke your blog saying "steem is the original link, point to them instead of me". What we need going the other way around, canonical and backlinks on steem.

For now there is no support for canonical links on steemit/busy etc. So but I am working on a new standard so it'll be implemented.

For now we'll add a backlink, which will be added in the v1 release.

Edit : missclicked and upvoted myself instead of you ^^'

Thanks so much—yes, I would love to see the ability to add the canonical link on Steemit instead of my blog. I just asked your thoughts because the only option for that would be currently to do it to the personal blog (and as you said, it would nuke). Again, really appreciate the work—thanks so much!

@howo @pinojo This is what I thought about avoiding duplicate content issue.

But I i have one more suggestion: Let that self-referencing canonical tag be there in the WordPress post. But we can post 1st 100 words excerpt on steemit and link back to original WordPress blog post URL.

Okay this is just a random thing and I know this post is old but @howo how about not using steemit at all, maybe busy or steemspeak would allow a canonical link? Fact is, the post is going to display and get crawled on several interfaces. The content is not really duplicated on steemit busy steemspeak etc. Google just thinks every site is centralized. So it will always be dozens of displays of every steem article, and sill yet all of the blockchain sites still have great seo. I don't think it's much of an issue for seo, but if adding canonical, it may be easier to get other interfaces to add a canonical than steemit?

As a successful blogger with a large audience in multiple niches I am intrigued, but I also have concerns. First, I worry about duplicate content hurting the SEO of my sites. Given that steemit does not monetarily reward evergreen content, I am not inclined to let my best evergreen items be published twice. Especially not in close time to each other. Someone in comments suggested a time delay, but even that bothers me since I think the size of steemit could still cause outranking. Right now, I am publishing a niche here that does not fit well on my main blogs or I am rewriting my old content. Next, I am concerned about all the plagiarism bots. I don’t want to get flagged. Finally, I have multiple niches. Until steemit does something to let publishers categorize by topic, I don’t want to flood my blog here with stuff from a ton of different niches.

Thanks for your feedback !

I worry about duplicate content hurting the SEO

We are still thinking about how to alleviate this issue. Delayed posts, cannonical urls, backlinks, we'll see but I'm confident that it will be sorted out.

I am concerned about all the plagiarism bots.

Like a lot of people here apparently ! I think it's not an issue, all of these people have whitelists and if you start using steempress and notify them, I'm fairly sure you won't get flagged, I mean they act for the good of steem to avoid spam. They wouldn't go against actual original creators coming to steem.

Finally, I have multiple niches.

Yeah it's an issue that's been here for a long time on steemit. In the future we'll implement some filter functions on SteemPress so you can choose one category and post only articles from this one. But yeah unless we setup a system where you could post each category in one different steem blog, it'll be hard to fix it on our side.

I definitely think some delayed posting options would be good. And cannonicals and/or backlinks would help.

The best part is that Steempress will also automatically handle the the conversion from wordpress's html code into steemit's markdown! Meaning that you will not need to make the extra edits that would be necessary if you were to manually post both on steemit and on wordpress, the plugin got you covered! ;)

This does it . Makes the job easier, the auto conversion . More like write once, post everywhere . Great work

Thanks, it's definitely the philosophy behind it :D

Cant wait to use it :)

This is great news. Been blogging for years and even though I've focused more on Steemit over the past few weeks, getting a word press plugin is exactly what the doctor ordered! Fantastic news and I look forward to following this development :)

I'm no blogger, in fact my Steemit posts have proven to be less than interesting to most, lol. But even I can see the utility in this. Gret idea, I hope to see it do it well.

I believe there is a story worth telling in all of us. Even though we can't all be full-time bloggers, journaling is a very healthy habit and sharing what we love is what makes life great imo :)

But yeah, STEEM is a place for everyone even if you're not "a blogger".

I've adopted the role of commenting. I spent an embarrassingly large percentage of my time as an adult on reddit and I commented almost exclusively, rather than posting.

Not to try to brag, but I made the Century Club pretty easily and without using any of the tricks that most people use to get there. I would just comment on what I found interesting and where I thought I had something worth saying.

I said all that to say this. In my experience, commenting adds real value to a community. Often times, good comments are what hook people into a subject. People want conversation, engagement, and relevant supplementary information to the post. It's inarguably a very large reason that reddit has done so well. And I'd argue that Steemit is woefully lacking in this area and would do well to repeat that particular success of reddit's.

In my admittedly limited experience here, there just isn't enough real conversation going on. I see many popular posts whose comment section is a barren wasteland. I see a lot of comment sections that consist of only a few, seemingly perfunctory, comments that consist of only two or three words without any real commentary.

I think that my contribution to the community here is to give people positive encouragement on their posts, to give them a feeling of accomplishment beyond just the Steem that they earn. And to make thoughtful, in depth commentary seem more normal to others who would mean to comment. To maybe help change what people around here think about commenting. That it's more than a means to scrape together a few pennies of Steem, but a rewarding part of the community in and of itself.

I couldn't agree with you more. It is not as much about content as it is about engagement in my view. People who create fruitful and productive conversations are the real value drivers to any website that relies on high time-on-site to be a success. Not to mention the community value when people come back to read comments and engage with users.

Right on. Steem is a great way to get people here but to get them to stay is going to take engagement.

They're going to have to want to come here to have something with more value than the little bit of Steem they can get. It certainly adds an extra element of fun, but not enough by itself.

People will figure out pretty quickly that the Steem isn't worth it if it just feels like you're at a sales convention where the conversations are all just a one way pitch with the occasional empty platitude.

Definitely +1 that, Everyone has something to learn/show/tell to someone else. Even the simplest things :)

Wonderful work and truly needed!

Cheetah and other initiatives like steemcleaner might definitely be a problem, but I confident that if you go to them first and be like "hey don't flag me I'm just duplicating my own content" it'll be fine.

I like that idea.

I could rely on some cryptography to create a certificate to prove that a post comes from steempress and is not spam but it would require some work on their end and I'm not sure they are ready for that.

Plus people could just create a dummy wordpress website and spam through steempress :p

That is true. Good observations.

And we are very happy that so many people are happy about it :D

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