Blog of blogs

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by uca, Jul 31, 2005.

  1. #1
    Is that possible?

    If I have, let's say, 5 blogs, and I write an article each weekday and spread those 5 article among the 5 blogs, that would mean a blog a day, but each blog update once a week.
    I then have a 6th blog that collects all the last articles with a teaser that links to the other blogs for the whole read.

    1) Is that doable with WP?
    2) How? (a brief explanation and link to an info source would be fine)

    Thanks for any help!:)
     
    uca, Jul 31, 2005 IP
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    blacknight Well-Known Member

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    #2
    You're basically looking for a blog aggregator. There is a wordpress plugin that supposedly does this, but I've never tried it.
    The other option is to use a dedicated aggregator.
    See http://planet.evil.ie or http://planet.mneylon.com for examples.
    They both use planet which is a python script to poll the various rss feeds at a fixed interval.
     
    blacknight, Jul 31, 2005 IP
  3. uca

    uca Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for your info!

    I checked and found FeedWordPress.

    I am going to try that first and see if it's ok for me.

    Thanks again!:)
     
    uca, Jul 31, 2005 IP
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    You're welcome. Let me know how you get on
     
    blacknight, Aug 1, 2005 IP
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    uca Well-Known Member

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    Well, I'm back here because I got nothing so far.

    Feedwordpress confuses me a little, so if anybody knows a website that can explain it better than I found so far, I would be grateful. Or any other solution that you could come up with would be great!

    Thanks!
     
    uca, Dec 11, 2005 IP
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    What's wrong with planet? :)
     
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    uca Well-Known Member

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    mmmmm, I don't remember, please forgive me. I'll have a look again and let you know. Sorry. I think I focused on FWP and thanks for hanging around!
     
    uca, Dec 12, 2005 IP
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    It looks good actually, I'm going to try it and give you an update.

    Thanks!
     
    uca, Dec 12, 2005 IP
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    The problem is that I can't find any straightforward installation instructions.
    The latest Python version is on the server, so that's not a problem, but I don't really know what to do after unzipping the downloaded script.

    Can you point me in the right direction, please?

    Thanks!
     
    uca, Dec 12, 2005 IP