Hey everyone - I work for the online paper at school. We have a few writers living abroad this semester, and the three of them all plan to blog weekly about their experience. We can't decide about the best way to go about this; I was put in charge of looking into making wordpress blogs and feeding the stories in thru RSS. Problem: I have no experience with either and don't even know where to begin. I created a blog to try things out and weakly googled some info on RSS. So, just messing around, I came up with this: http://www.dogstreetjournal.com/forumTemp.php Problem with that is that it's only showing so many words/characters/whatever. We'd want it to be the entire post. Ideally I'd like it to be something like... Three posts show up when you click the 'Blogs tab.' One post is from each author, and maybe the post of whoever updated most recently is at the top? I'd probably also bring in the side navigation so that readers can find older posts. Would it make more sense to just have one blog, and we'd have the authors send their pieces to me, and I could put them up? I dunno, I like the idea of having them separate, but I suppose thru Wordpress I could have them separated by category... (Sorry I'm musing at you, I just really need input/advice!) Basically, first and foremost, I need to figure out how the actual getting-the-blogs-in-full-onto-the-page is gonna happen. (I also need to do the same thing for the guy who's going to podcast for us, he has RSS enabled on his site already, we're just the clueless ones with no idea of how to use it.) Any ideas whatsoever? Thank you SO much!
Hey I see you are using RSSinclude. This app creates a backlink on your site, which may not be very professional looking to visitors to your site. Besides that, RSSinclude uses magpierss as its "engine". My advise to you, is to simply use magpierss to display the feeds on your website. This will also solve your problem with incomplete description elements. They have a pretty good installation guide, but if you require help, just ask here and I'll be glad to guide you. Using one blog with one feed would ensure that the posts are ordered by date, but it gets tricky to ensure taht each author has one post among the three you want. So I think your best bet is to parse three different feeds, only grab one news item from each (the most recent), order them by date and display them. I an help with as well, if you need it. Hope this was helpful