Feedwordpress syndication plugin updates
Published by on October 31st, 2008 13 Comments »
It has been a while since Feedwordpress has been updated, so this new version, which fixes a number of compatibility issues with Wordpress 2.6.x, is a very welcome arrival.
Feedwordpress is one of the ream of RSS aggregators for Wordpress. It enables syndication of other content from multiple RSS feeds into a single blog. I use it to drag posts from this blog, and others, into my main personal blog, thus interconnecting everything into a single “hub”.
What’s changed
Wordpress 2.6 compatibility: a bug that sometimes created multiple post revisions has been fixed.
Admin Interface: now looks and behaves like a WP2.6 interface
Ajax bugs: This one was particularly welcomed. The ajax elements on post write and edit pages failed to operate do to some incompatibility. Now fixed.
Formatting Filters: by default, Feedwordpress protects th original formatting of the source content. Now, we can disable this to allow the local Wordpress to apply whatever formatting and filtering it needs.
Tags: when Feedwordpress syndicates a post that has a category not available in the local blog, you can now elect to have that category created as a tag associated with th post.
There are more changes and additions, detailed at the Feedwordpress home page.
Why Feedwordpress?
Thre are a multitude of plugins available to do a similar job, but Feedwordpress has the edge for one particular function. It enables the additional insertion of Custom Fields to each syndicated post. The type and content of such fields are customisable uniquely for each source RSS feed.
This is useful for customised blog themes, such as this one. The SEO WebMonkey theme pulls details about each post from custom fields, and applies certain content and formatting rules based on those fields (the image associated with most posts, for example). For me the ability to add Custom Field content is hugely useful.
Grab Feedwordpress from the developer’s site, or the Wordpress plugin repository.
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I am also using FeedWordPress on http://www.blogcottage.com … it is simply the best. Do you know how to modify the post before FeedWordPress puts it in the database. The thing is that some posts have images which don’t fit into my theme. I would like to modify these posts to resize the images so that they fit perfectly in my theme.
Unfortunately, Feedwordpress does not provide that capability, it simply replicates the post. WP-o-Matic offers some ways to customise the post before it gets added to your blog – that might work better for you.
Alternatively, set the max-width or max-height css attributes of images in your posts, that will constrain them to a specific maximum and save you having to switch to a new plugin.
Just add this line to the bottom of your css and see if that does the job:
.post img { max-width: 500px; }Thanks a lot … that small bit of modification to the css really did the trick. You’re a life saver.
Any idea or examples on how to use the custom fields?
Bill, yes, I’m planning a brief post about injecting post-specific data into themes via custom fields. It’s dead ease when you know how.
Any word on this? I have no idea what the cutom fields are, and would appreciate if you could share some info regarding tht. Thanks.
Sorry, I’ve simply been too busy.
In the meantime, here’s a Wordpress overview of using custom fields: http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Fields
I’m trying to find a plugin for wordpress that could mirror at least some of the functionality of http://prototype.nytimes.com/gst/articleSkimmer/. So it looks like either feedwordpress or wpomatic….
I tried feedwordpress but it posted the title and only one line of content for each post. Anybody know how to fix this? thanks
You’ll have to ask the developer as it’s not something I can answer: http://feedwordpress.radgeek.com/
Fantastic, I did not know about that up to the present. Thanx!
Thanks for sharing. How can I extract the images automatically it doesn’t appear on any of my feeds in http://www.reedd.com ? Thanks
I am going to use this plugin for my website, was looking around for something with this exact functionality.