Thanx from a lazy fuck

[Simon]

I agree that the dupe posts problem really needs a(n almost) hands-off solution. This might be a good point for discussion on tonight's radio show since Boogie is the guest and it's supposed to be blog-focused.

I'd like to incorporate all 8 of dead-sexy's feeds in my blog projects too, and I can see what a nightmare this could grow into as more quality RSS feeds are offered by sponsors (with working brains).

[docholly]

I haven't run this by our guru of blogs yet..so this may or may not be possible.. but for those who are more familiar with wordpress .. can you not go in to your admin once our blog posts are fed into your blog and edit the time and date? so you know that ASAIG current blog posted on 6/28 at 615am. you could effectively go in and change that date to say 6/29 or 6/30.. thus it would post later on the aggregators and not be duped by them one after another? Just an idea.

Also as a side note: the original intent of this was to provide QUALITY key word rich posts for bloggers and to give you options as to filling in your sidebar links with "friends" blogs. This is especially good to retain bookmarkers to your blog because they know, if you use all 8 dead-sexy blogs, that at least 1 per day your blog will be updated.

Tennis anyone???

[ponygirl]

Originally Posted by docholly

Also as a side note: the original intent of this was to provide QUALITY key word rich posts for bloggers and to give you options as to filling in your sidebar links with "friends" blogs. This is especially good to retain bookmarkers to your blog because they know, if you use all 8 dead-sexy blogs, that at least 1 per day your blog will be updated.

see that's what I thought they would be for - the sidebar links. I still haven't got the hang of the RSS stuff yet. That's what you get when you just jump in & figure it out as you go along

I'm sure this will get addressed on the show tonite so hopefully I'll learn something

[Useless]

Originally Posted by docholly

... for those who are more familiar with wordpress .. can you not go in to your admin once our blog posts are fed into your blog and edit the time and date?

Once you have aggregated a feed into your blog, the content of its posts are fully under your control and appear in your WP admin just like any post you have written yourself. You could edit the body text, the title, the date, whatever.

But the issue is, it really sucks that anyone would have to do anything manually. In my opinion, the very nicest thing about using feeds is that you get all of that content by simply clicking 'update feeds'. Now, if you are running a big aggregator and you're pulling down a ton of feeds, dupe posts wouldn't be all that noticeable and not really something to worry about. On a smaller personal blog, where the content is mostly your own posts and a couple of aggregated feeds, then it will be far more noticeable.

[ponygirl]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

Once you have aggregated a feed into your blog, the content of its posts are fully under your control and appear in your WP admin just like any post you have written yourself. You could edit the body text, the title, the date, whatever.

ok I need some help here when you get the feed added in, does it publish a post everytime the blog is updated? I guess what I'm asking is if you have initial control over when a post goes live or if they're automatically added to the page. Does that make sense?

[Useless]

Originally Posted by ponygirl

ok I need some help here when you get the feed added in, does it publish a post everytime the blog is updated? I guess what I'm asking is if you have initial control over when a post goes live or if they're automatically added to the page. Does that make sense?

It depends on the Aggregator you use. I use FeedWordPress, in which you can choose to allow the feed posts to be automatically published to your page or held as drafts. So, you could pick and choose which posts make it to your blog. You could edit them before they are published to your blog as well.

[ponygirl]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

It depends on the Aggregator you use. I use FeedWordPress, in which you can choose to allow the feed posts to be automatically published to your page or held as drafts. So, you could pick and choose which posts make it to your blog. You could edit them before they are published to your blog as well.

ok, now I'm getting a little excited about this

I'm looking at FeedWordPress, it all sounds rather complicated but hell, I love a challenge. There goes my day lol.

so what is the etiquette on editing posts? It doesn't sound right that you can change them if you're pulling someone elses post. But if it's a program blog, I guess that makes it your own post, really - right?

[Useless]

Originally Posted by ponygirl

so what is the etiquette on editing posts? It doesn't sound right that you can change them if you're pulling someone elses post. But if it's a program blog, I guess that makes it your own post, really - right?

Yeah, I wouldn't see any harm in editing a sponsor's post in any manner, as long as it still promotes the contributing sponsor when all is said and done. I wouldn't edit a fellow webmaster's posts unless you see a seriously mispelled word that isn't going to let you sleep at night.