November 2024 Changelog
November took a setting away and made things work better for it. You no longer choose between XML-RPC and WP JSON when adding a blog, SCM works out which one the site accepts and uses it. There is a test button next to each blog so you find out before a run, not during one.
SERP API also arrived as another way to get search results, and Article Creator's search settings moved into the tabs where you actually make the content.
Read this if you
- Add WordPress blogs to SCM and post to them.
- Bulk create articles by category and upload them.
- Get blocked scraping Google search results.
- Keep more than a few AI templates.
SCM works out how to post to your blog
- The XML-RPC setting is gone. SCM checks the blog and picks XML-RPC or WP JSON itself, so a blog that rejected your posts because the wrong method was selected now just works.
- A test button in the blog manager tells you whether SCM can reach and post to a site, before you queue a hundred articles at it.
- Sort your blog list by url or by group when picking where a post goes.
- Post and page ids are written to the output file separately, so you can match an uploaded article back to the post it became.
Two tasks get a categorised blog filled
- Import your blogs into Article Creator and generate posts per category, then upload. What used to take a task per category takes two tasks in total.
- The CSV for WordPress post generation no longer needs a header row.
Another route to search results
- SERP API is available as an alternative search engine, for when scraping Google directly keeps getting blocked.
- Search result settings sit inside the content generation tabs, next to the thing they affect, instead of in a separate area.
- People Also Ask scraping stops quitting early when two checks return the same number of questions, so you get the full set.
- The Test PAA box accepts a keyword again.
Find the template you want
- Tag your AI templates and filter by tag, which starts mattering once you have twenty of them.
- The %scraped_article% warning stops appearing when you are feeding the prompt local files instead of scraped pages.
Small things
- Locate in the output browser opens the task's own project folder instead of somewhere near it.
- Choose the Gemini model you want, and Gemini errors are logged with something readable.
- Google Translate errors, the Dynamic Scraper error when a run finds nothing, and Scrape Owl proxy strings are all fixed.
- More tooltips.
Related SCM guides and product history
Full developer changelog
The summary above is written for users. The original 21-item developer changelog is preserved below for exact release detail.
December 1, 2024
- other: tooltips
November 27, 2024
- feat: SERP API added as alternative search engine
November 26, 2024
- fix: Google translate error
- feat: article creator, ai template tagging and filtering
November 25, 2024
- style: article creator ai writer shortened margins
November 23, 2024
- feat: article creator using %scraped_article% warning not shown if using add local
November 20, 2024
- fix: Test paa unable to enter keyword
- feat: Pressing locate in folder output browser, correctly resolves and navigates to the task %project_folder%
- fix: google paa scraper, not exiting early if the paa item count is the same on multiple checks.
November 19, 2024
- feat: Reworked article creator search result settings to appear where its needed inside content generation tabs
- fix: dynamic scraper error when no results available
- fix: Google gemini error log
November 14, 2024
- fix: Post uploader test site fix
November 13, 2024
- feat: upload poster, select blog can sort on blog url and group
- feat: wp post generate, csv header no longer required.
November 10, 2024
- feat: Article creator, wp generate blogs import feature https://forum.seocontentmachine.com/t/bulk-create-articles-with-category-and-upload-to-a-blog-using-2-tasks-only/529/5
November 7, 2024
- feat: Post uploader, save post/page id seperately to output file
November 5, 2024
- feat: Blog test button added to WP blog manager
- fix: Removed xmlrpc settings, SCM will auto detect which posting method to use, either xml-rpc or wp-json based on blog details.
November 2, 2024
- feat: Add model param for google gemini
- fix: scrape owl proxy string parsing
See all monthly updates in the SCM changelog archive. New users can also try SCM from the trial signup page.