I’m gonna stick to playing with SimplePie and WordPress and let Andy Rush (the new MediaWiki celebrity) and Patrick Gosetti Murray-John (the old-gold Drupal fan-boy) do their thing. I can officially announce that the SimplePie RSS parser runs fine on Bluehost. Take a look at the demo installation 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 drawbacks. A huge benefit of SimplePie is the way it formats the feeds it pulls in. BDPRSS choked on displaying flickr photos or formatting the feeds from YouTube, whereas SimplePie feeds both of these services quite nicely into WordPress. See the examples of these below.
A potential drawback of the stock SimplePie plugin is that it doesn’t have a user interface in the backend, so you will have to copy and paste simple php code into the sidebar and/or template. You can also post it into a page or post in WordPress if you are using the EXEC-PHP plugin.
One thing I haven’t figured out about SimplePie is whether or not you can combine multiple feeds into one -this was the major selling point for me when using BDPRSS, and a feature which subsequently fueled the experiment with pulling class feeds into a static page with WPMU (write-up here). So, I still have some more research to do with this tool, but I am more than excited about the possibilities.
SimplePie Test with YouTube
youtube :: recently added videos
- Ave Maria singstar
Xepo interpretando a Bisbal
Author: josdupy
Keywords: Xepo serranillos singstar ave maria
Added: September 7, 2008
- Tropic Thunder - Robert Downey Jr. plays a black guy…?
http://www.Dranden.com
Tropic Thunder - Robert Downey Jr. plays a black guy…?Author: maniacii1
Keywords: Tropic Thunder Robert Downey Jr. plays black guy…?
Added: September 7, 2008
- Big Brother 2 Launch Night - Part 1 [World Premiere]
IT’S HERE! No more silliness like last series, it’s time to get proffessional
Author: ZachRulz20
Keywords: Big Brother UK AUS USA bb9 bb8 bb7 bb6 bb5 bb10 rachael winner eviction secret twist task
Added: September 7, 2008
SimplePie Test with flickr
Uploads from everyone
- Sel.bew.IIK3908 — Men at window with sexy doll
Mabel Amber ***Pluto 5339*** posted a photo:
- 2008-08-22 Bandjes @ Winston-016
ArneCoomans posted a photo:
- bill2
rossimaci posted a photo:













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