Comments on: Syndicatin’ Welfare: UMW Blogs’ Syndication Framework on the Cheap

By: Reverend

Reverend — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:57:12 +0000

@BloggerDude,

I know you are a spammer, but because your spam is so nice, and strokes my ego so well, I am gonna leave it. I love you BloggerDude

By: BloggerDude

BloggerDude — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:51:15 +0000

I don’t know If I said it already but …This blog rocks! I gotta say, that I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say I’m glad I found your blog. Thanks,

A definite great read….

By: Reverend

Reverend — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:02:45 +0000

Hey Kathy,

They way to get the sitewide tags to feed into a specific blog is to activate FeedWordPress on the blog you want to aggregate the posts into.

Then add the url from the tags blog into FeedWordPress on that blog being used as an aggregator:

For example: If you are aggregating the tag wordpress

you would add this url to FeedWordPress

http://tags.yourdomain.com/tag/wordpress/feed

The above example assumes your tag blog is at the tags.yourdomain.com address
and that you are using dynamic subdoamisn, it will still work with subdirectories, but the url has to change accordingly.

Do this help?

By: kathy

kathy — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:34:00 +0000

I’m trying to make sense of this process. I have the tag-posts, post-indexer and TagsBlog (Global Posts) set up. I have Feed Wordpress set up. How do I get those tag-specific feeds with links back to the original Posts into the page with cetsEmbedRSS? This lets me enter a new feed, but doesn’t seem to have anything to do with Feep Wordpress?
I feel like I’m almost there!

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By: Reverend

Reverend — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:45:32 +0000

Scott and Novak,

I’m an amateur compared to you guys, and I am sure there are issues with FeedWP, but I have felt very confident with it over the last weeks, and we really don’t have the same single-sign-on issues you all do. Right now it is loose, cheap, and it works, but your reservations are solid, and I await what you develop with great anticipation
In fact, if truth be told I’m the one who is stalking you, and the AJAX playground sounds interesting to me, and while I am a fan of aggRSSive, I actually think a stand alone app for this may present its own set of headaches and issues, WP needs to build something like this into the core, in my opinion it is key.

Thanks for the comments guys,

Love UBC OLT’s #1 fan

By: novak

novak — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:08:02 +0000

As you can see OLT is spying on and stalking you.
The proper syndication and aggregation is the Achilles’ heel of our WP implementation. I am not confident about FeedWP. It started to act weird out of the blue and Scott and Enej spent the long hours trying to fix it with little success.
I am hoping to to have either stand-alone syndication and aggregation server (perhaps the undead aggRSSive), or to use Google’s Ajax playground. Scott did some research around it (Feeds API), and looks good so far.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:54:18 +0000

Great post. I have a love/hate relationship with Feedwordpress though. I hope we can get it to work well with our environment(creates users which could conflict with our SSO) or find an alternative… cets_EmbedRSS I had no idea this plugin existed will be very useful.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:10:25 +0000

Jim, I’ll say my same refrain again, you are truly a superhero! Thanks for publishing this, and continuing to write about the incredible work you’ve done on UMW Blogs!

Although there are a lot of great higher ed WPMU installations out there, UMW Blogs has totally been our inspiration. Without your work and your sharing, Blogs @ Suffolk University wouldn’t exist today!

Thanks again for everything!!!

Michelle

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Getting Closer – New South Blogs — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:29:12 +0000

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