The need might be considered contorversial by some so I want to avoid saying it here for fear of stepping on toes.
However, to the best of my knowledge what I need is completely legal. There may already be a application out there that already does what I need for all I know, but I just haven’t been able to find it.
Anyone who has the skills I listed above can email me and I will be more than happy to fill them in on what I want. If they can do it, but don’t want too, that is fine. I won’t hold any hard feelings. 🙂
Lao
No worries. In that case, make sure that you have completely checked the various plugin resources and have confirmed that what you’re looking for doesn’t already exist.
http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Plugins#Plugins_by_category
http://dev.wp-plugins.org/
http://www.wp-plugins.net/
Thank you for the links. I checked them and I don’t see anything that does what I need it too. So if there is any PHP/XML/WordPress programmers out there and you want to make a few bucks, drop me a line at: contracts AT laosegui.com
Could you give us even a clue as to what this thing does ? Then folks with the necessary skill set can contact you ?
Okay, by popular demand, here is the scoop:
What I would like is the ability to automatically read various RSS feeds and have them put into the WordPress database as individual posts (Just the feed snipit, not the entire thing).
I would also like to assign what category those posts are put under (as well as whether or not people can post comments on them) and figure out a way where I can pick and choose the categories I want to have show up on my main blog page. (So I can have the RSS feeds on other pages that I would make static links to.)
I hope this makes sense.
Thanks,
Lao
There are some re-blogger scripts around, and I’ve been thinking about adding such functionality to CG-FeedRead, but been hard to justify spending the time so far…
If you have any more particular details of how you’d expect to ‘interact’ with such a plugin, let me know.
-d
Hi David,
Some of the things that I would like it to do would be:
A) Automated Retrieval of Feeds
B) Ability to assign categories on a feed by feed basis
C) Checking for duplicate entries
D) Linking back to original source
E) Ability to read several different types of ‘standard’ feeds
That pretty much is all I am looking for. 🙂 Of course, that is before I see it running, then I am sure that I would have other tweaks come to mind.
Lao
So, you want new items on feeds picked up and auto-posted into a particular category pre-set based on the particular feed? (Just checking that I read that correctly…)
A (which is really auto-posting…), C, and D are all somewhat ‘basic’ features I’d need to build in anyway. Well, the auto-posting stuff is versus a managed/admin-interface approach where you checkmark new items in your ‘subscribed’ feeds to be posted to your site — both approaches are useful, and relevant to different folks, so I’d probably do both in the end.
B is just a data assignment.
E is already in CG-Feedread — it handles most of the major feed formats pretty well (although still needs a lot more extensive testing against wide varieties of generated sources, as no two programs generate a given feed type identically… 😉 ).
-d
I am about to udergo this same process and I’d like to throw my question at you.
If you are allowing PHP in the post, is the comment section secure?
right now I have PHP exec running to allow feedread in a post but I have comments turned off. How can I do this without the PHPexec plugin?
I don’t know about PHP exec, but I assume it’s much the same as RunPHP. If that’s the case, the only content that is available for PHP evaluation is the post content. The comments are not evaluated.
