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bryansays bryansays
 
M$2 February 28, 2009 10:14 PM

How do I aggregate 4 website's RSS into 1 WordPress blog?

I help run a site called http://techsidestories.com which is a wordpress blog. It is made up of 4 authors who each post stories. Recently most of the authors started their own wordpress blogs. I want to now make techsidestories.com an aggregate site which posts stories from the author's other wordpress blogs. Any ideas on how to do this?

Also any good themes I could use to display each author's content separate?
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arjo arjo
 
 March 01, 2009 07:32 AM
FeedWordPress is an Atom/RSS aggregator for the WordPress weblog software. It syndicates content from feeds that you choose into your WordPress webblog; if you syndicate several feeds then you can use WordPress’s posts database and templating engine as the back-end of an aggregation ("planet") website.
http://projects.radgeek.com/feedwordpress/
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robbrown robbrown
 
March 02, 2009 06:17 PM
Here are a few different options:

http://projects.radgeek.com/feedwordpress

http://www.chait.net/index.php?p=238

http://robm.me.uk/projects/plugins/wordpress/aggregate

However, none of these plug-ins will import the comments that the readers of each independent blog leave. Comments are often the most important and interesting part of a blog and without them, your aggregation idea may be flawed.

If faced with the same problem, I would likely create 1 combined RSS feed for people to subscribe to.

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bryansays bryansays
 
March 02, 2009 08:58 PM
Those are great links. I will have to check them out. Thanks for pointing out about the comments. My vision would be that techsidestories would just contain a snippet of their posts and you would have to click the link back to their site for comments.

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robbrown robbrown
 
March 02, 2009 09:06 PM
That might work... I'd still be a little concerned about the content on techsidestories.

If I was to come across a blog that just linked to other blogs, I'd probably just read the other blogs... If I wanted the articles from each of those blogs regularly, I'd subscribe to their individual feeds in my RSS reader where they would appear combined.

I'm not knocking your idea... just wondering about it is all. Each of those plugins will do what you need.

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sausman sausman
 
March 02, 2009 11:15 PM
If you are familiar with PHP this might be worth looking @ http://net.tutsplus.com/javascript-ajax/how-to-read-an-rss-feed-with-php-screencast/

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