View Full Version : Help with RSS feeds please
abostonboy
04-30-2008, 08:44 AM
http://www.ps3fanboy.com/
Does anyone know how they pull topics from their other blogs at the bottom of the page?
Curious mind wants to know.
Nicedreams
04-30-2008, 08:53 AM
Its most likely a rss to html php script.
Jimmy
HunkMoneyLuke
04-30-2008, 10:49 AM
yeah, its an RSS feed that is getting read and added to the bottom of the page, kind of like the way my feedlists work, eg, http://studdirectory.com
rawTOP
04-30-2008, 12:06 PM
I use Magpie (http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/) to do that... In fact I do pretty much the exact same thing on my home page (http://www.rawtop.com/) - I show the latest titles from each of the four blogs on my site... It does it with feeds from my own site, but you can just as easily do it with feeds from other sites.
Magpie can do a lot more than just simple lists. It can create whole new RSS feeds or entire pages... I have dynamic pages that show recent posts from other sites as a page... For example:
A page with content from Bareback That Hole (http://www.rawtop.com/porn/dynamic/bareback-that-hole.html) which looks a lot like the hosted blog for BBTH (http://www.barebackthathole.com/blog/?aff=1196801495)
A page with content from the new HDK sites (http://www.rawtop.com/porn/dynamic/hdk.html) that looks a lot like the HDK hosted blog (http://www.hdknetwork.com/?aff=ODM4NjY4NDoxMDoxMg)
A page with bareback content from Hunk Money (http://www.rawtop.com/porn/dynamic/hunk-bareback.html)
Or another one with content from Pop Boys (http://www.rawtop.com/porn/dynamic/dutch-bareback.html)
In the last case I also blend multiple RSS feeds with Yahoo! Pipes to have one page from multiple sources.
Unlike how Blogs Organizer would do it, the content on those pages doesn't actually exist on my site. It's all pulled dynamically and is gone from the page as soon as it's gone from the feed the page is based on. Which is fine since the content would all carry a duplicate content penalty anyway...
abostonboy
04-30-2008, 12:26 PM
I use Magpie (http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/)
Magpie can do a lot more than just simple lists. It can create whole new RSS feeds or entire pages... I have dynamic pages that show recent posts from other sites as a page... For example:
I actually use Magpie. I can get it to work on an html page, but I get REAL confused as to how I would integrate it with WP. I guess what I am saying is that blog that uses that is not an html page. Nothing in life is simple I guess.
Nicedreams
04-30-2008, 01:55 PM
...but I get REAL confused as to how I would integrate it with WP. I guess what I am saying is that blog that uses that is not an html page. Nothing in life is simple I guess.
There are wp plugins for that. Just quickly skimming through their plugins, I see this one that looks simple.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rss-import/
Might be better ones in the rss category though.
Jimmy
rawTOP
04-30-2008, 06:44 PM
I actually use Magpie. I can get it to work on an html page, but I get REAL confused as to how I would integrate it with WP. I guess what I am saying is that blog that uses that is not an html page. Nothing in life is simple I guess.
Actually, the fact that it's an HTML page is the trick since Magpie is based on PHP... :D All my .html files are actually PHP pages... I've modified my virtual host file to make them that way...
You can always edit your WP page templates (assuming you're not talking about putting the Magpie code in a blog post). WP is just PHP, Magpie is PHP... It's actually a good match.
The problem would be Magpie on a page that doesn't have PHP processing...
abostonboy
04-30-2008, 06:47 PM
Ahh. U have all my html files are php as well (against what my host wants). So, basically I could put Magpie in the footer of the WP template and do it that way. Hmmmm...
use neonbubble It's badass and will do exactly what you want :)
I've got a copy zipped up if you want it. lmk