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table in WordPress, preparing them for output into your widget. \nThe widget can be positioned in sidebars or footers like any other feed.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Boost the Traffic to your LinkedIn Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Industry Leaders using LinkedIn for their social or news broadcasts can direct their blog traffic back to LinkedIn. <\/li>\n<li>Plugin can import LinkedIn articles from any number of authors.<\/li>\n<li>Separate widgets can be placed into the templates to show articles by one author, or all author articles sorted by newest.<\/li>\n<li>Additional widget controls built in for number of articles, module title and excerpt length.<\/li>\n<li>Imported articles can be individually toggled for visibility.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<ol>\n<li>Install LinkedInclude either via the WordPress.org plugin directory, or by uploading the files to your server (in the <code>\/wp-content\/plugins\/<\/code> directory).<\/li>\n<li>Activate the plugin.<\/li>\n<li>Visit Tools &gt; LinkedInclude to find the import utility.<\/li>\n<li>Enter a permalink to an Author Post Activity page (e.g.: https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/today\/author\/[author]) and click <strong>[ TEST ]<\/strong>.\n\n<ol>\n<li>This feature will attempt to scrape available content found on that page on LinkedIn, and present what it was able to read.<\/li>\n<li>If you don't see any results following a test, it's very likely that attempting to FETCH ARTICLES will yield the same results.<\/li>\n<li>It appears that LinkedIn throttles the type of connection LinkedInclude uses to scrape page content. If you get the desired results only periodically, it's advised you wait 24hrs before trying again. <\/li>\n<li>If this plugin is successful in reading the content of the author's articles while performing the TEST, the next step is to FETCH ARTICLES.<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/li>\n<li>If you wish to continue, click <strong>[ FETCH ARTICLES ]<\/strong> and LinkedInclude will attempt to import into WordPress all of the articles shown in the previous test operation.  <\/li>\n<li>These articles will be listed for your moderation, all hidden by default.\n\n<ol>\n<li>Click the checkbox beside each article to attempt fetching the HTML content from the LinkedIn permalink page.<\/li>\n<li>Activated articles will be shown in your LinkedInclude widget(s). Hidden articles will not.<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/li>\n<li>Add a LinkedInclude Widget to your sidebar, footer, etc. through the Appearance &gt; Widgets page.<\/li>\n<li>Configure the display of the LinkedInclude feed by setting properties in the widget: Title, Source\/Author (or All Sources), # Posts to Show, Excerpt Length.<\/li>\n<li>Add as many widgets as needed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<!--section=faq-->\n<dl>\n<dt id='are%20there%20any%20new%20features%20planned%3F'><h3>Are there any new features planned?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Not at this time.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id='can%20i%20propose%20a%20feature%3F'><h3>Can i propose a feature?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Not at this time.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n<!--section=changelog-->\n<h4>3.0.4<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Tested on WordPress v5.8;<\/li>\n<li>Fallback to a secondary body tag ( div.article-content__body ) for scraping content;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>3.0.3<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Tested on WordPress v5.7.2;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>3.0.2<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Adjusted styles to work better with WordPress 5.3.2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>3.0.1<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Updated plugin documentation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>3.0.0<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Plugin rewritten to AGAIN use the Author Post Activity page (https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/today\/author\/[author]), in place of the previous method of scraping the Related Content page.<\/li>\n<li><strong>This version will drop &amp; replace your data table<\/strong>, effectively starting fresh. Consequently, any articles you may have imported with previous versions of the plugin will be cleared to prepare for the new operation of the plugin. <\/li>\n<li>Please note that this plugin is to be considered <em>experimental<\/em> and not guaranteed to function consistently for all WordPress Admins or LinkedIn Authors. As such, a tester function is built into the plugin to help you identify whether your content can be imported properly.  <\/li>\n<li>You are welcome to rate this plugin poorly if your content is not capable of being imported, however it would be much more informative\/beneficial to the plugin authors and other WordPress users if you document the difficulties you experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>2.0.0<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Plugin rewritten to use Related Content, in place of the Author Post Activity. <\/li>\n<li><strong>This version will drop &amp; replace your data table<\/strong>, effectively starting fresh. Consequently, any articles you may have imported with previous versions of the plugin will be cleared to prepare for the new operation of the plugin. <\/li>\n<li>Please note that this plugin is to be considered <em>experimental<\/em> and not guaranteed to function consistently for all LinkedIn authors. As such, a tester function is built into the plugin to help you identify whether your content can be imported properly.<\/li>\n<li>In its current state of rewrite, only article images at 360x120 will be imported. This size is provided by the Related Content feed, and conveniently works well for a sidebar or footer.  <\/li>\n<li>You are welcome to rate this plugin poorly if your content is not capable of being imported, however it would be much more informative\/beneficial to the plugin authors and other WordPress users if you document the difficulties you experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>1.0.1<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>LinkedInclude now uses <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.guzzlephp.org\/en\/latest\/\">guzzlehttp<\/a> to fetch articles list and <a href=\"https:\/\/packagist.org\/packages\/fabpot\/goutte\">fabpot\/goutte<\/a> to read article properties<\/li>\n<li>Author ID now resembles a LinkedIn hash ( e.g.: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/today\/author\/0_3O4HsOCdgaCMqMujqsA8Yb\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/today\/author\/0_3O4HsOCdgaCMqMujqsA8Yb<\/a> ) instead of a simple integer User ID. 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