Glossary
This page explains the words you see in Feedigy, grouped by the part of the app they belong to. Each term links to the page that covers it in detail.
Getting around
Section titled “Getting around”| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Dashboard | The first page after you sign in. It shows your plan usage, what is about to publish, recent Auto-Publisher activity and news from the Feedigy blog. See Dashboard. |
| Sidebar | The menu on the left of every page. It opens each part of Feedigy. The button in the header shows or hides it. |
| Global search | Finds anything in your account. Select Search… in the header or press Ctrl + K (⌘ + K on a Mac). |
| Notifications | Alerts about your account, behind the bell in the header. |
| Guided tour | A short walkthrough of a page. Start it with the hand icon next to the page title. See Onboarding. |
| Profile | Your personal details: profile photo, name and email, preferences, password and connected logins. See Profile. |
| Settings | Account-wide options in four tabs: Notifications, Febe AI, User log and API. See Settings. |
| Posting digest | An email that sums up what your Auto-Publishers did. Choose daily, weekly or off in Settings. |
| User log | A history of your account activity over the last 90 days, in Settings. |
Content feeds
Section titled “Content feeds”| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Feed | A source of posts. Feedigy reads new posts from your feeds, and Auto-Publishers send them to your channels. |
| Content feeds | Every feed in your account, of all four types, listed on the Content Feeds page. See Content Feeds. |
| Original feed | A feed you write yourself in Feedigy. Feedigy hosts it at its own public address, so it works as an RSS feed and as a small blog. See Original Feeds. |
| Micro blog | The public web page of an original feed. Anyone can read your posts there in a browser, without an RSS reader or a Feedigy account. |
| Feed post | An article you write inside an original feed. You can publish it now, schedule it or keep it as a draft. |
| Feed URL slug | The last part of an original feed’s address, for example my-blog in https://feedigy.com/o/my-blog. |
| Discover feeds | A catalog of public feeds from news sites, blogs, magazines and podcasts. Search it by topic or name. See Discover Feeds. |
| Discovery feed | A public feed you added from Discover feeds. Feedigy reads its new posts. You cannot edit them. |
| Imported feed | A public RSS or Atom feed you added yourself: from a list of addresses, an OPML file or your NewsBlur account. See Imported Feeds. |
| OPML | A file format most RSS readers use to export your subscriptions. Feedigy imports feeds from .opml and .xml files. |
| Full or partial content | Whether a feed carries whole articles (full) or only a summary with a link to the website (partial). |
Smart Feeds
Section titled “Smart Feeds”| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Smart feed | A feed Feedigy builds for you from a source you pick, such as YouTube, Amazon, Reddit or Google News, and keeps up to date. See What are smart feeds?. |
| Source | Where a smart feed takes its posts from. Some sources need a connected channel, such as your Shopify store. Others, such as news or Reddit, need none. |
| Keywords | Words a smart feed looks for. Only posts that match them come in. |
| Negative keywords | Words a smart feed avoids. Posts that contain them stay out. |
| Live preview | The panel that shows the posts a smart feed would bring in, while you set it up. |
| Generate smart feed | The button that saves your settings and creates the smart feed. |
Media and AI Studio
Section titled “Media and AI Studio”| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Media Library | Every image, video and audio file in your account: uploads, Unsplash photos and AI Studio images. Open Media in the sidebar. See Media Library. |
| Storage | The space your media files use. The badge next to the Media title shows your use and your plan’s limit. |
| Unsplash | A library of free photos. Search it from Media or the post editor, and add photos to your Media Library. |
| AI Studio | Makes images with AI from a description, or changes one of your images. Every result goes to your Media Library. See AI Studio. |
| Model | The AI that makes the image in AI Studio. Models differ in style, settings and cost. |
| Prompt | The description of the image you want AI Studio to make. |
| Aspect ratio | The shape of an image, such as Square, 16:9 or 9:16. |
Febe AI
Section titled “Febe AI”| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Febe AI | The assistant built into Feedigy, on every page at the bottom right. Ask it in plain words to find content, draft posts, build feeds, run Auto-Publishers or manage channels. See How to use Febe AI. |
| Conversation | One chat with Febe. Earlier conversations stay in the list until you delete them. Delete all removes every conversation. |
| Confirm | Febe asks you to confirm before it changes anything in your account. Nothing changes until you do. |
Posting to channels
Section titled “Posting to channels”| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| New post | The sidebar entry for writing something new. Choose Channel post or Feed post. |
| Channel post | A message you write once and send straight to one or more channels, now or on a schedule. It does not go through a feed. See Channel posts. |
| Shared text | The text all channels in a channel post use, unless you change it for one channel. |
| Customized | The label a channel shows when you changed its text or images in a channel post. Reset to shared text undoes it. |
| Post to channels | Starts a channel post from a post in a feed, with its title, text, link, images and tags filled in. |
Auto-Publishers
Section titled “Auto-Publishers”| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Auto-Publisher | A rule that takes posts from up to 10 content feeds and publishes them to one channel on a schedule. See What are Auto-Publishers?. |
| Post template | The parts of each post, such as title, body, link, tags and images. Turn each on or off, and drag them to change the order. |
| Signature / Custom text | Your own text added to every post, or an AI prompt that writes it for each post. |
| Posting order | Which post an Auto-Publisher picks next: Newest first, Oldest first, Only new items or Random. |
| Schedule type | How an Auto-Publisher times its posts. Interval posts every few minutes, hours, days or weeks. Custom posts on the days and times you pick. |
| Posting interval | The shortest time between two posts. Your plan sets it. |
| Posting-time spread | Moves each post a little before or after its time, so the times look natural. 0% posts at the exact time. |
| Next run | When an Auto-Publisher will publish its next post. |
| Test Post | Publishes one real post now with the current settings, so you can check how it looks. |
| Status | The state of an Auto-Publisher. Running publishes on schedule. Paused keeps the settings but publishes nothing. Draft is not finished yet. |
| Activity Log | The record of every Auto-Publisher run: what was posted, and any errors. |
Calendar
Section titled “Calendar”| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Publishing Calendar | Everything scheduled and everything that went out, across all your channels. Open Calendar in the sidebar. See Calendar. |
| Post statuses | Where a post stands in the calendar. Scheduled will publish at the time shown. Sending… is publishing now. Published went out. Unconfirmed was sent, but the channel did not confirm, so check the channel before you send it again. Draft is saved, not scheduled. Failed was refused by the channel: fix the reason and select Retry. Missed was not sent before its time passed. |
Channels and tags
Section titled “Channels and tags”| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Channel | An account or service you connect to Feedigy, such as a Facebook Page, an X account or a WordPress site. See What are channels?. |
| Source channel | A channel that brings content in for smart feeds, such as your Shopify store or YouTube channel. |
| Destination channel | A channel that receives what you publish, from Auto-Publishers and channel posts. Some channels work both ways. |
| Reauthorize | Reconnects a channel whose access expired or was revoked. |
| Disconnect | Removes a channel from Feedigy. |
| Tag | A label you put on feeds, posts and images so you can find and filter them anywhere. See Tags. |
Plans and billing
Section titled “Plans and billing”| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Plan | Your subscription level: Free, Starter, Pro or Agency. It sets your limits. See Billing & Usage. |
| Limit | How much of one thing your plan allows, such as feeds, channels, Auto-Publishers, storage or AI credits. |
| Free plan | The plan with no time limit and no card needed. |
| Trial | A free period on a paid plan before the first charge. |
| Billing & Usage | The page with your plan, usage, transactions and payment method. Open it from the user menu in the lower-left corner. |
| Add-on | Extra capacity for one limit, added to a paid plan and paid with it every month or year. See Add-ons & Top-offs. |
| Top-off | A one-time pack of AI credits. The credits never expire and work on every plan, including Free. |
| AI credits | What you spend on AI work: Febe AI, AI Studio and the AI tools in the editor, Media and Auto-Publishers. Bigger jobs use more credits. Your plan’s credits reset every month, and a failed job gives its credits back. |
| Account credit | Money Feedigy applies automatically to your next invoice. |
| Coupon | A discount code applied to your subscription. |
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| API | Lets your own apps and scripts work with your Feedigy account. The API tab in Settings appears when API access is on for your account. See API. |
| Rate limit | How many API requests you can make per minute. It depends on your plan. |
Keep posting through busy weeks
Set sources, keywords and posting hours once. Feedigy posts to your channels while you work on other things.
No card required. The Free plan has no time limit.
