Comments on: BDP RSS: A WordPress Aggregator that Works http://bavatuesdays.com/bdp-rss-a-wordpress-aggregator-that-works/ a "b" blog Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:14:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Semiologic Test » WPMU Hacks for BDP RSS, Optimal, & YouTube http://bavatuesdays.com/bdp-rss-a-wordpress-aggregator-that-works/#comment-16946 Semiologic Test » WPMU Hacks for BDP RSS, Optimal, & YouTube Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:13:27 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=289#comment-16946 [...] my previous post I failed to detail how I hacked WPMU in order to include BDP RSS & Optimal in a static page and embed YouTube videos in posts. Sorry for this oversight, below [...] [...] my previous post I failed to detail how I hacked WPMU in order to include BDP RSS & Optimal in a static page and embed YouTube videos in posts. Sorry for this oversight, below [...]
]]> By: Semiologic Test » Playing with SimplePie for WordPress http://bavatuesdays.com/bdp-rss-a-wordpress-aggregator-that-works/#comment-16942 Semiologic Test » Playing with SimplePie for WordPress Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:45:37 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=289#comment-16942 [...] on my bluehost account here. Additionally, I have been using a plugin called BDPRSS (my write-up here) which, in fact, does much the same things as SimplePie. Yet, both have their specific benefits and [...] [...] on my bluehost account here. Additionally, I have been using a plugin called BDPRSS (my write-up here) which, in fact, does much the same things as SimplePie. Yet, both have their specific benefits and [...]
]]> By: jimgroom http://bavatuesdays.com/bdp-rss-a-wordpress-aggregator-that-works/#comment-11792 jimgroom Sat, 26 May 2007 06:56:36 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=289#comment-11792 Rob, Yeah this is trickier. I think this is a necessary tool, but I haven't seen one that does it all that well. A really great tools that does something similar, but a bit different is WP-o-matic (here's a <a href="http://bavatuesdays.com/wp-o-matic/" rel="nofollow">blog post</a> I did a little while back). What this does is basically takes feeds from other blogs and posts them directly within the post field as you suggested. Deal is that all the other folks posting from a distributed environment need to make that post to a specific category for which you can get the RSS feed and put it into WP-o_Matic. The positives is it works very well for links, images, etc for the post coming in. The negative is the various feeds (same as BDP RSS I guess) and making certain you can get everyone to check the proper category and follow a protocol. Otherwise you may bring in a whole bunch of post you don't want. Rob,

Yeah this is trickier. I think this is a necessary tool, but I haven’t seen one that does it all that well. A really great tools that does something similar, but a bit different is WP-o-matic (here’s a blog post I did a little while back). What this does is basically takes feeds from other blogs and posts them directly within the post field as you suggested. Deal is that all the other folks posting from a distributed environment need to make that post to a specific category for which you can get the RSS feed and put it into WP-o_Matic. The positives is it works very well for links, images, etc for the post coming in. The negative is the various feeds (same as BDP RSS I guess) and making certain you can get everyone to check the proper category and follow a protocol. Otherwise you may bring in a whole bunch of post you don’t want.

]]> By: Rob Gordon http://bavatuesdays.com/bdp-rss-a-wordpress-aggregator-that-works/#comment-11791 Rob Gordon Sat, 26 May 2007 06:26:06 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=289#comment-11791 I've installed the tool, and it seems to be very powerful, but as you have noted, it aggregates only to a static page or the sidebar. I would like to aggregate to the blog itself- i.e. each individual post would be an item on an RSS feed. In your searches, did you find any tool that can do this? - or do you think PDB can be "tweeked" to make to output to the WordPress posts? Thanks Rob G. I’ve installed the tool, and it seems to be very powerful, but as you have noted, it aggregates only to a static page or the sidebar. I would like to aggregate to the blog itself- i.e. each individual post would be an item on an RSS feed. In your searches, did you find any tool that can do this? - or do you think PDB can be “tweeked” to make to output to the WordPress posts?

Thanks

Rob G.

]]> By: Playing with SimplePie for WordPress at bavatuesdays http://bavatuesdays.com/bdp-rss-a-wordpress-aggregator-that-works/#comment-9760 Playing with SimplePie for WordPress at bavatuesdays Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:14:03 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=289#comment-9760 [...] on my bluehost account here. Additionally, I have been using a plugin called BDPRSS (my write-up here) which, in fact, does much the same things as SimplePie. Yet, both have their specific benefits and [...] [...] on my bluehost account here. Additionally, I have been using a plugin called BDPRSS (my write-up here) which, in fact, does much the same things as SimplePie. Yet, both have their specific benefits and [...]
]]> By: One Tool to Rule them All: the BLOG! at bavatuesdays http://bavatuesdays.com/bdp-rss-a-wordpress-aggregator-that-works/#comment-5677 One Tool to Rule them All: the BLOG! at bavatuesdays Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:58:04 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=289#comment-5677 [...] The trick has always been how do we organize the students personal blogs around courses? -for with this model the student is the primary unit of focus and the course a unifying secondary layer, the complete opposite of BlackBoard and their ilk. Well, after being inspired by Darcy’s comments I revisited the ELS Blogs space and slapped in two plugins I had already talked about on this blog, BDP RSS and Optimal, in order to feed the students’ blogs into a separate course space. You can see an example of these two plugins working to create a class portal of sorts feeding from WPMU here. Wham, bam, thank you WordPress! [...] [...] The trick has always been how do we organize the students personal blogs around courses? -for with this model the student is the primary unit of focus and the course a unifying secondary layer, the complete opposite of BlackBoard and their ilk. Well, after being inspired by Darcy’s comments I revisited the ELS Blogs space and slapped in two plugins I had already talked about on this blog, BDP RSS and Optimal, in order to feed the students’ blogs into a separate course space. You can see an example of these two plugins working to create a class portal of sorts feeding from WPMU here. Wham, bam, thank you WordPress! [...]
]]> By: The WordPress Plugins in My Life at bavatuesdays http://bavatuesdays.com/bdp-rss-a-wordpress-aggregator-that-works/#comment-3923 The WordPress Plugins in My Life at bavatuesdays Fri, 29 Dec 2006 06:25:00 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=289#comment-3923 [...] Seems like the Cog Dog and teachinghacks.com having been doing a little sharing about their WordPress plugins, which I find extremely useful -so thanks. I have been talking a bit lately about some of the plugins I have recently discovered here, here, and here -but the following list is a quick and dirty look at what’s beneath the hood of bavatuesdays: 404 Notifier 1.0: This plugin will log 404 hits on your site and can notify you via e-mail or you can subscribe to the generated RSS feed of 404 events. Adjust your settings here. By Alex King. Aggregate 1.0: Allows you to place the contents of an RSS feed into your posts. By Rob Miller. Articles 1.1: Display posts in an ‘Articles’ list. To include a post in the list, add a custom field to the post: ‘article’ = ‘1′. By Alex King. BDP RSS Aggregator 0.4.10 (test): RSS Aggregator - collate RSS feeds and summarise to a page - updates regularly without the need for cron. By Bryan Palmer. Code Markup 1.1.1:: A filter that displays code blocks nicely while still allowing formatting. By Bennett McElwee. Exec-PHP 3.0:: Allows php code tags inside the content or excerpt of your posts and pages to be executed just as in usual PHP files. By Sören Weber. Kimili Flash Embed 1.1: Provides a wordpress interface for Geoff Stearns’ excellent standards compliant Flash detection and embedding JavaScript. By Michael Bester. Netflix 2.1 :Displays info from your Netflix account. This includes text and images via RSS feed. By Albert Banks. Optimal Plugin (formerly, OPML Renderer) : Renders valid OPML from any source as an expandable/collapsible list. By Dan MacTough. podPress: The podPress plugin gives you everything you need in one easy plugin to use WordPress for Podcasting. Set it up in ‘podPress’->Feed/iTunes Settings. By Dan Kuykendall (Seek3r). Share This: Let your visitors share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites. Thanks to Thomas McMahon for footwork on the URLs. By Alex King. Spam Karma 2: Reloaded: The only spam filter for WordPress. Period. Viper’s Video Quicktags:: Creates quicktags for embedding various video types, including those hosted at YouTube and Google Video, into WordPress. Uses the ButtonSnap class by Owen Winkler. By Viper007Bond. Wikipedia Link 0.1: With this plugin, you can link to Wikipedia entries just like within Wikipedia by simply enclosing the word you want to link with in double brackets. By Andreas Krennmair. WordPress Database Backup:: On-demand backup of your WordPress database. By Scott Merrill. WordPress Mobile Edition 2.0: Show a mobile view of the post/page if the visitor is on a known mobile device. By Alex King. WP-FLV 0.2: This plugin eases insertion of Jeroen Wijerings FLV Video Player By Roel Meurders. (PodPress does play FLVs, but this is still the slickest and most solid FLV player for WordPress) Brian’s Latest Comments 1.5.10: This shows an overview of the recently active articles and the last people to comment on them. By Brian Meidell. [...] [...] Seems like the Cog Dog and teachinghacks.com having been doing a little sharing about their WordPress plugins, which I find extremely useful -so thanks. I have been talking a bit lately about some of the plugins I have recently discovered here, here, and here -but the following list is a quick and dirty look at what’s beneath the hood of bavatuesdays: 404 Notifier 1.0: This plugin will log 404 hits on your site and can notify you via e-mail or you can subscribe to the generated RSS feed of 404 events. Adjust your settings here. By Alex King. Aggregate 1.0: Allows you to place the contents of an RSS feed into your posts. By Rob Miller. Articles 1.1: Display posts in an ‘Articles’ list. To include a post in the list, add a custom field to the post: ‘article’ = ‘1′. By Alex King. BDP RSS Aggregator 0.4.10 (test): RSS Aggregator - collate RSS feeds and summarise to a page - updates regularly without the need for cron. By Bryan Palmer. Code Markup 1.1.1:: A filter that displays code blocks nicely while still allowing formatting. By Bennett McElwee. Exec-PHP 3.0:: Allows php code tags inside the content or excerpt of your posts and pages to be executed just as in usual PHP files. By Sören Weber. Kimili Flash Embed 1.1: Provides a wordpress interface for Geoff Stearns’ excellent standards compliant Flash detection and embedding JavaScript. By Michael Bester. Netflix 2.1 :Displays info from your Netflix account. This includes text and images via RSS feed. By Albert Banks. Optimal Plugin (formerly, OPML Renderer) : Renders valid OPML from any source as an expandable/collapsible list. By Dan MacTough. podPress: The podPress plugin gives you everything you need in one easy plugin to use WordPress for Podcasting. Set it up in ‘podPress’->Feed/iTunes Settings. By Dan Kuykendall (Seek3r). Share This: Let your visitors share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites. Thanks to Thomas McMahon for footwork on the URLs. By Alex King. Spam Karma 2: Reloaded: The only spam filter for WordPress. Period. Viper’s Video Quicktags:: Creates quicktags for embedding various video types, including those hosted at YouTube and Google Video, into WordPress. Uses the ButtonSnap class by Owen Winkler. By Viper007Bond. Wikipedia Link 0.1: With this plugin, you can link to Wikipedia entries just like within Wikipedia by simply enclosing the word you want to link with in double brackets. By Andreas Krennmair. WordPress Database Backup:: On-demand backup of your WordPress database. By Scott Merrill. WordPress Mobile Edition 2.0: Show a mobile view of the post/page if the visitor is on a known mobile device. By Alex King. WP-FLV 0.2: This plugin eases insertion of Jeroen Wijerings FLV Video Player By Roel Meurders. (PodPress does play FLVs, but this is still the slickest and most solid FLV player for WordPress) Brian’s Latest Comments 1.5.10: This shows an overview of the recently active articles and the last people to comment on them. By Brian Meidell. [...]
]]> By: Optimizing with Optimal -A Plugin for WordPress at bavatuesdays http://bavatuesdays.com/bdp-rss-a-wordpress-aggregator-that-works/#comment-3479 Optimizing with Optimal -A Plugin for WordPress at bavatuesdays Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:45:30 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=289#comment-3479 [...] I have been playing pretty intently with WordPress these days in an attempt to develop out a UMW Division of Teaching & Learning Technologies site hat features our projects, aggregates our blog posts and del.iciou.us feeds, while also acting as a resource for faculty, students, and the whole world wide web. It has been a really enjoyable project because I am finally creating the time to sit down and push WordPress as far as my paltry imagination will let me. I have already blogged the BDP RSS plugin -which provides the basis for some inspired WordPress eduglu. Another plugin I came across recently for WordPress is Optimal. The description on the Yabfog blog of this dynamic plugin is as follows: Optimal renders valid OPML from any source in a tree-like view ideal for browsing. Links to external OPML files as well as RSS, RDF, and Atom feeds are expanded in place. [...] [...] I have been playing pretty intently with WordPress these days in an attempt to develop out a UMW Division of Teaching & Learning Technologies site hat features our projects, aggregates our blog posts and del.iciou.us feeds, while also acting as a resource for faculty, students, and the whole world wide web. It has been a really enjoyable project because I am finally creating the time to sit down and push WordPress as far as my paltry imagination will let me. I have already blogged the BDP RSS plugin -which provides the basis for some inspired WordPress eduglu. Another plugin I came across recently for WordPress is Optimal. The description on the Yabfog blog of this dynamic plugin is as follows: Optimal renders valid OPML from any source in a tree-like view ideal for browsing. Links to external OPML files as well as RSS, RDF, and Atom feeds are expanded in place. [...]
]]> By: jimgroom http://bavatuesdays.com/bdp-rss-a-wordpress-aggregator-that-works/#comment-3250 jimgroom Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:51:54 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=289#comment-3250 Thanks Sören, I will change that now, great plugin by the way. Thanks Sören,

I will change that now, great plugin by the way.

]]> By: Sören http://bavatuesdays.com/bdp-rss-a-wordpress-aggregator-that-works/#comment-3249 Sören Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:43:02 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=289#comment-3249 May I mention that the plugin is called "Exec-PHP". This does matter because there is another plugin out there called "php-exec". I agree, this is confusing and I should better be taken a different name for my plugin. Good luck with your project ;) May I mention that the plugin is called “Exec-PHP”. This does matter because there is another plugin out there called “php-exec”. I agree, this is confusing and I should better be taken a different name for my plugin. Good luck with your project ;)
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