Tag Archives: Syndication

WordPress Wednesday Kick Off

By Dougal | Published: October 15, 2008

This is the first installment of “WordPress Wednesday”, which I mentioned in my previous post about making changes to my site. This first one is going to be a little long, and I’ve been editing the draft off-and-on for over a week. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged .net, app, article, Atom, avatar, avatars, branding, categories, CSS, Design, dom, feedburner, Feeds, Google, gravatar, gravatars, howto, improve web site, improve website, plugin, Plugins, Programming, redesign, RSS, Search Engine, search engine optimization, SEO, social networking sites, stickiness, sticky, subscribers, subscription, Tags, Themes, traffic, WordPress | 5 Comments

WP-Cache fix for Content-Type in feeds

By Dougal | Published: June 19, 2007

If you run a busy WordPress site, or even if your site just has a lot of processor-intensive plugins, then you probably already run the WP-Cache plugin (plugin directory, original announcment, recent security update info). Even though my site isn’t super busy, my server is a little light in the RAM department, and using WP-Cache helps the box keep up with requests better.

One minor annoyance, however, is that with WP-Cache enabled, my syndication feeds aren’t delivered with the correct Content-Type. [...]

Posted in Plugins, Software, Standards, Syndication, WordPress | Also tagged Atom, Feeds, PHP, plugin, Plugins, WordPress | 12 Comments

URL ABCs

By Dougal | Published: April 29, 2005

Feeding the meme…

These are my URL ABCs:

A is for airbagindustries.com
B is for blo.gs – and Bookmarks
C is for cameronmoll.com
D is for dougal.gunters.org – me me me me me!
E is for easy-designs.net/articles/replaceSelect
F is for feedmarker.com – like del.icio.us + feeds
G is for google.com – Duh.
H is for halr9000.com
I is for intertwingly.net/blog – what a great word.
J is for jeremy.zawodny.com/blog – just some Yahoo! out west
K is for kottke.org
L is for liferea.sourceforge.net – some random site I visited because the user agent showed up in my logs.
M is for molly.com – Molly of the hard-to-spell last name
N is for newsaskew.com/blog
O is for onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/06/10/milters.html – O is for Obliterating spam
P is for photomatt.net – The #1 Matt
No Q? WTF?
R is for resource.reh3.com
S is for spam.gunters.org – S is for Spam. [...]

Posted in Blogs, Fun | Also tagged dom, Feeds, Google, Memes, PHP, Spam, Web, yahoo | 10 Comments

Improved Thunderbird OPML

By Dougal | Published: January 17, 2005

I’ve updated the OPML import/export patch for Mozilla Thunderbird that I mentioned before. The new patch comes from Robert Sayre, and improves both the import and export of OPML files. Full details are on the Thunderbird Bugzilla tracker.

I have updated the patched, downloadable version of newsblog.jar for your hacking pleasure.

In case all of the above was gobbledygook to you, here are some definitions:

OPML: Outline Processor Markup Language. [...]

Posted in Blogs, Software, Tech | Also tagged Atom, Feeds, Google, RSS, Web | 23 Comments

Unified RSS

By Dougal | Published: June 3, 2003

For whatever reason, there has been a split in the RSS community for a while. Ian Davis proposes Unified RSS, in which RSS 1.0 becomes “RSS Metadata”, and RSS 2.0 becomes “RSS Content”.

For this to work there has to be agreement between the two sides. [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged RSS, Web | Leave a comment

Syndication Bug

By Dougal | Published: April 5, 2002

Brent just let me know that there is a problem with my XML/RSS/RDF (whatever you call it) syndication. The problem is that the permalink URLs generated here use ampersands (&) to separate GET variables. XML requires you to escape ampersands by using the & entity. [...]