RSS feeds as posts

Resolved f9dc
(@f9dc)

19 years, 7 months ago

I’ve searched the RSS and post tags, and while I got a lot of useful information, I haven’t found the answer to my question. My site will be a blend of syndicated headlines (with the original blogger’s blessings, of course) and local content. I was hoping for something like this:

10.18.06 A POST FROM MY SITE
Here’s the first few sentences from my post. Read more…

10.17.06 A HEADLINE ABOUT SANDWICHES
Read the full story on samplewebsite.com

10.17.06 A POST ABOUT CATS TAKING OVER THE WORLD
Read the full story on anothersamplewebsite.com

10.16.06 A POST FROM MY SITE
As above, my summary goes here. Read more…

In other words, I’d like to monitor multiple feeds (cron is available) and create posts with the original blogger’s headline and a link to their blog. I can easily do this manually, but eventually I’m planning on having maybe a dozen posts coming in daily plus the posts of my local contributors; that’s going to be a headache to do by hand. And while I suppose I could hack the PHP to provide post-like entries, I think I’d have a hard time getting them seamlessly blended in with my local posts.

I thought I was on to something with CG-feedread, but it appears to be built to incorporate into a page itself rather than sit in the background and create posts based on feeds.

I can’t be the only one with this idea — others MUST have done this sort of thing already! Can someone point me towards a plugin? Thank you kindly.

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Ryan Fitzer
(@ryanfitzer)

19 years, 7 months ago

I just read this old article on Chris J Davis’ site today. It talks about using WP’s rss functions to pull in feeds and format them as you’d like. Might help. http://www.chrisjdavis.org/2005/06/13/secrets-pt-3/

Chris_K
(@handysolo)

19 years, 7 months ago

And the old stand-by: Syndication plugins will have some interesting stuff.

davidchait
(@davidchait)

19 years, 7 months ago

I wish people could agree on terminology… 😉

I use ‘aggregator’ for something that can display feed items on a page or sidebar, but not store them into the db. (CG-FeedRead as an example…).

I use ‘reblogger’ for something that grabs items from another site and blogs them into your site. (FeedWordPress, reBlog, et al).

FeedRead might in a next generation add reblogging capabilities, as I move to more ‘commercial’ type releases and feature set becomes ultra important. 😉 😉

-d

Thread Starter f9dc
(@f9dc)

19 years, 7 months ago

Thanks for the tip, ryanfitzer. I’m going to try his code out tonight, but at first glance it appears to set up:

Blog A Post from 10/18/06
Blog A Post from 10/15/06
Blog A Post from 10/10/06
Blog B Post from 10/17/06
Blog B Post from 10/16/06
Blog B Post from 10/15/06
Blog C Post from 10/14/06
My local post from 10/17/06
My local post frmo 10/9/06

…when what I *really* want is…

Blog A Post from 10/18/06
My local post from 10/17/06
Blog B Post from 10/17/06
Blog B Post from 10/16/06
Blog A Post from 10/15/06
Blog B Post from 10/15/06
Blog C Post from 10/14/06
Blog A Post from 10/10/06
My local post from 10/9/06

Then again, my mental coding isn’t always perfect, so I’m gonna take a shot at it anyway. HandySolo, I’m still poking my way through the plugins, but so far no success. It looks like there are two problems making this a not-easy implementation:

1) Getting the RSS headline in as a post, not a block
2) Only fetching the “new” entries in the RSS feeds

I was also going to say that meshing the feeds together and sorting by date/time would be a tricky trick, but if they get placed as posts, WP would handle that just fine on its own.

davidchait, I’m going to Google those names – thanks. If you ever feel the urge to do what I’m describing, you’ll certainly have a paying user here! 🙂

Thread Starter f9dc
(@f9dc)

19 years, 7 months ago

Thanks everyone, and especially davidchait. I installed FeedWordPress and everything works like a dream. For a second there I thought I was going to have to try a different CMS – whew!

BTW, the site is here, for anyone who wants to see exactly what I had in mind.

Thanks again!

richardainz
(@richardainz)

19 years, 6 months ago

After a lot of testing and searching I also found FeedWordPress, but since I am new to the WordPress terminology I was wondering how I get the Feeds into Pages?

I assume I should use [get_syndication_feed()] but I fail to locate any parameter to identify the feed.

wzad
(@wzad)

19 years, 6 months ago

Awesome plugin, by the sounds of it. f9dc, I was looking for something just like this too, I’m glad I came across this post.

richardainz
(@richardainz)

19 years, 6 months ago

I found this, and would recommend it for feeds that are not dependent on publication in posts:
http://ink.bur.st/wordpress-plugins/#kqf

I can do pretty much what I like with it, include it in pages or posts, and base the site on a 100% controlled feed availability.

http://www.homeworldtrinity.org

reln
(@reln)

19 years, 5 months ago

I was wondering if anyone new anyway to configure the feedwordress plugin so that I can get RSS snippets and not entire posts.

Everything works but the feeds I get are long. I just want to get snippets and have users follow the link to the sites.