Originally Posted by Brujah

A few things I learned so far.

Installing it, be sure your ABPSA directory is writable until the installation is finished.

If you use the locally hosted media option, be sure you have the bandwidth available where you install the program since they will be hotlinked from your server. It seems to be able to locate this media directory anywhere on the server, so I assume it doesn't have to be located in your ABP install directory either which is good if you want to hide it's location for security reasons.

I know a lot of you like to use Epassporte to pay for things. I was able to use my Epass Virtual Visa # and it went through flawlessly.

Was hoping it would support more, but .. "Currently, ABPSA supports Blogger, BlogSome.com, WordPress, and WordPress.com". I've already suggested the RSS option so if that's included it will work for a lot of the software I use that has importing built-in.

I setup what I could for testing. Then I went to "Run ABP" to pull the feeds. It said wait until the browser reports "done" with no more activity. This just means wait until the browser indicates the page is finished loading.. ie.. no hourglass or whatever your browser usually indicates to you that it's completed the task. For the sake of convenience, it might be cool to add the Download Images, and Post campaigns buttons on these pages also. Otherwise, you just need to click the Run ABP tab again for each step.

I think I would switch the Categories and Blogs tabs. Natural workflow would likely be entering the blogs you'll be populating first. Then add your categories next, which will be needed when you start adding feeds. Then you would work with the Rewriter, adding any source header, footer, and other rules. Lastly, the Campaigns which is where you match up the categories and rules to be implemented for each blog. This allows for a large number of variations and cross posting, if I'm not mistaken.

It was very quick pulling the feeds and downloading the images for this test.
Posting to a blog went fairly well, and I verified all the feed items were posted. However, the browser didn't indicate it was finished even though apparently it was.

It's pretty intuitive overall and seems to have everything covered well.