Comments on: Tinkering http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/tinkering/ falling indelibly into the past Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:12:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jason http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/tinkering/#comment-603 Jason Thu, 17 Nov 2005 01:26:50 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=319#comment-603 <p>I think so… but there’s gotta be an easy way to implement this on a single install of MT, instead of using YAPOS (Yet Another Piece of Software). </p> <p> I wonder if Wordherders will give me a research assistant? ;) </p> <p> Thanks again KF. </p> I think so… but there’s gotta be an easy way to implement this on a single install of MT, instead of using YAPOS (Yet Another Piece of Software).

I wonder if Wordherders will give me a research assistant? ;)

Thanks again KF.

]]> By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/tinkering/#comment-602 KF Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:28:55 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=319#comment-602 <p>I think you can set it up multiple ways, if I’m remembering correctly, depending on how you configure WordPress.  I know you can page back pretty far through the entries, and there are monthly archives and category archives (useless as my students are not using categories *sigh*), but I’m not sure if it’s setting up individual entry archives or not, as the permalinks are set to redirect the reader back to the original blog that the post came from… Make sense? </p> I think you can set it up multiple ways, if I’m remembering correctly, depending on how you configure WordPress.  I know you can page back pretty far through the entries, and there are monthly archives and category archives (useless as my students are not using categories *sigh*), but I’m not sure if it’s setting up individual entry archives or not, as the permalinks are set to redirect the reader back to the original blog that the post came from… Make sense?

]]> By: Jason http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/tinkering/#comment-601 Jason Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:16:53 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=319#comment-601 <p>Does it then save each entry into its own archive, or just show the most recent 10 (or 20, etc)? </p> <p> This is me, asking questions first, and then going to read the documentation second.  It’s just that sort of day ;) </p> <p> Thanks KF! </p> Does it then save each entry into its own archive, or just show the most recent 10 (or 20, etc)?

This is me, asking questions first, and then going to read the documentation second.  It’s just that sort of day ;)

Thanks KF!

]]> By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/tinkering/#comment-600 KF Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:33:10 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=319#comment-600 <p>Oh, I completely forgot you were looking for this, Jason.  I’m using a genius plugin for WordPress called, appropriately, FeedWordPress, which can be got from RadGeek <a href="http://projects.radgeek.com/feedwordpress/" rel="nofollow">here</a>.  The installation is relatively simple, and getting the aggregator blog set up with the appropriate subscriptions is a piece of cake.  The only hitch for me was that all my students are using Blogger for their blogs, and Blogger won’t allow you to set up custom pings.  So what I had to do was to set up a little PHP prepend that runs the aggregation script every time the index page is loaded.  Causes a bit of slow loading, but it works.  Assuming your folks are all using MT, though, you can just get everybody to ping the aggregator whenever they update, which will probably be easier… </p> Oh, I completely forgot you were looking for this, Jason.  I’m using a genius plugin for WordPress called, appropriately, FeedWordPress, which can be got from RadGeek here.  The installation is relatively simple, and getting the aggregator blog set up with the appropriate subscriptions is a piece of cake.  The only hitch for me was that all my students are using Blogger for their blogs, and Blogger won’t allow you to set up custom pings.  So what I had to do was to set up a little PHP prepend that runs the aggregation script every time the index page is loaded.  Causes a bit of slow loading, but it works.  Assuming your folks are all using MT, though, you can just get everybody to ping the aggregator whenever they update, which will probably be easier…

]]> By: Jason http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/tinkering/#comment-599 Jason Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:25:51 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=319#comment-599 <p>Do tell how you got the aggregator blog set up and working… are you using something in the background, or is this just a feature of Wordpress? </p> <p> I’ve been hoping to find an easy aggregator that streams several blogs into one feed, in the order that they’ve been posted (but without saving the whole durn thing (I don’t need double-posts in the database, know what I mean?). </p> <p> Tweaking the website is an insidiously effective procrastination method, isn’t it?  Which is why my blog still has broken templates from an old version of MT. </p> Do tell how you got the aggregator blog set up and working… are you using something in the background, or is this just a feature of Wordpress?

I’ve been hoping to find an easy aggregator that streams several blogs into one feed, in the order that they’ve been posted (but without saving the whole durn thing (I don’t need double-posts in the database, know what I mean?).

Tweaking the website is an insidiously effective procrastination method, isn’t it?  Which is why my blog still has broken templates from an old version of MT.

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