Comments on: Baking SimplePie with favicon topping

By: Tom D

Tom D — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:05:58 +0000

Great workup !

I use it to display random / latest posts from other blogs in the sidebar!
I also have a full blown page but is it is being tweaked at the moment.

Thanks Again.

Tom.

By: SimplePie: Weblog » Random statistics about SimplePie.org

SimplePie: Weblog » Random statistics about SimplePie.org — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:39:00 +0000

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By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 04:14:51 +0000

Glad you're sorted Abhimanyu; I'd not heard of WordpressMU before. I don't know whether that system can make use of standard WordPress plugins—because the obvious easy way to integrate a single feed would be to use the SimplePie WordPress plugin. Or, re-reading your comment, was your aim to produce a feed from combined sources rather than integrate a single existing one? Please forgive my fogginess!

Anyway, why not post a tutorial on how you achieved your goal? Sounds like stuff worth sharing to me ;-)

If you've done something new and creative using SimplePie, drop the developers a note as I'm sure they'd love to see what you did. The Support Forums there might be a good place for your how-to.

By: Abhimanyu Chirimar

Abhimanyu Chirimar — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 03:59:32 +0000

Ok. got it working. mix of your code and some basic demo code from simplepie. I dont know if anybody here is interested in using this for a combined feed on MU.

By: Abhimanyu Chirimar

Abhimanyu Chirimar — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 02:18:28 +0000

Ok this is embarassing.

I was in a rush and browsing at 'work' and didn't end up finishing my thought.

I just setup a WordpressMU and got wpmu-feed plugin up and running to consolidate all the feeds in the system. That feed I used with your code to try to setup a sidebar default for all users.

I am a n00b I guess. So if you can help me use this to spew out 10 recent updates in 1 feed, that will be really appreciated. Thank you.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:00:09 +0000

Abhimanyu, which 'this page' would that be? You realise the whole idea here is to show only one item (the most recent) per feed right?

By: Abhimanyu Chirimar

Abhimanyu Chirimar — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:27:52 +0000

somehow, i only end up with 1 result from the feed in this page.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 06:35:54 +0000

Glad it worked for you WilderKaiser. I hope you were able to spend the weekend away from the keyboard instead!

By: WilderKaiser

WilderKaiser — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 22:29:19 +0000

Hello Bruce! You did a really nice work...after I had wasted plenty of time to get a feed running on my blog, I just found your tutorial via simplepie. And, after all, it works out fine, as you can see it here (I only changed a few things, but not too many). Fabulous one, you saved my weekend at last. Thank you. WilderKaiser

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 20:58:47 +0000

Awesome, thanks for pointing that out!