Does anyone know of a good alternative to GeckoTribe's Grouper Evolution? www .geckotribe.com/rss/grouper/ This product is exactly what i want, but that along with the full version of CaRP from the same company is going to run me over $50. I will pay that if i need to, but i want to weigh all my options first. Senario: I am building a local Blog community built specifically for one city. I am using a directory script so that people can submit their blogs/rss feeds then i am going to turn around and combine and syndicate all their rss feeds into the "Latest [City] Blog Posts" I need something that can take a list of 100 or so rss URLs and turn them into one combined rss feed with which i will show on my site's home page. I know i am going to have to set up some sort of cron jobs to automatically go and pull these rss feeds from the various blogs on a schedule and then cache them. Grouper and CaRP from Geckotribe look to be exactly what i am looking for... anyone know of any other scripts taht can do this for me? Thanks!
it took a while, but after about 3 days of searching i finally found one. It works pretty well, AND its integrated with Wordpress. its called FeedWordPress. The onyl thing was that i had to write a script so that the end users could fill out a form that would insert their links into my wp_links DB so that i could approve them. From there I still have to write a cron job to automatically update the feeds from all the rss links. I can see my wp_posts db is going to fill up pretty quick... so i will have to do manual purges eventually too. Other than that and some minor formatting issues - the FeedWordPress plugin works very well.