Comments on: RSS feed mashup services – easy and free

By: Black Hornet

Black Hornet — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:33:51 +0000

Yahoo Pipes is great because it's so powerful. I created an Ultimate Sports Blog Pipe that I use to keep up with unfiltered sports opinion. Basically you add a bunch of "Sources" link them to an aggregator by dragging the bottom of each source to the aggregator, then add a sort (by pubdate) and voila. And if you ever need to get deeper, there's all sort of stuff there that I haven't figured out yet. Best of all - with one feed, you can then keep up in one place instead of 50. Plus with WP-RSSImport 4.0 and Exec-PHP 4.2 you can devote a page as your RSS reader. Check out my Sports blog page.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:21:39 +0000

Yeah, that sounds easy enough. But I was trying to avoid using Feedburner, so I could do it all using the built in WordPress feed.

By: Miriam

Miriam — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:19:49 +0000

Ryan – it’s a good idea to combine the feeds. If you put a link to the feed on your site, I think that you should be able to redirect it to FeedBurner, and then you can track the number of feed subscribers. Does that make sense, or sound possible?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:44:36 +0000

I’m considering doing this for my next upgrade to http://www.dunedinicehockey.co.nz/. I want to combine the feed for the forum posts with feed for the news posts – once I get the site running on WordPress that is. I thought there was a way to do this using WordPress directly (albeit with a plugin) rather than using a feed aggregator. But I’ve spent the past 30 mins trying to nut out how to do it and have now given up