Category-Specific Feeds in WordPress

Friday, April 21st, 2006

Most people don’t know this, but WordPress automatically builds RSS feeds for specific categories. So if you wanted to syndicate only “tech” stories from the Jordy Blog, you could use this feed:
http://jordy.gundy.org/wp-rss2.php?cat=3
To view which id you could use for a category-specific feed, just click on a category and see what is listed in the [...]

Planet for Blog Aggregation

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

I just finished setting up Planet blog aggregation software on planet.provolabs.com. It clearly needs some CSS work done on it, but all of the functionality is there.
I was worried that (without an prepackaged RPM) setting it up would be difficult, but installation was much easier than I anticipated. Because it’s just a python script run [...]

Misspellings via RSS

Friday, February 24th, 2006

When you do a Google Toolbar spellcheck while editing a post in WordPress, bad HTML is inserted secretly onto your post. This HTML isn’t visible on your WordPress post, but it does show up via RSS (and when you view the page source) –even after you substitute the green links. If you subscribe via Bloglines, [...]