Have more than one blog?

[ses5909]

Have you ever wanted to easily merge more than one RSS feed? Apparently now you can using Yahoo! Pipes.

Merge Multiple RSS Feeds Into One with Yahoo! Pipes + FeedBurner at Digital Inspiration - Software Reviews, Internet and Technology Guide (http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/10/merge-multiple-rss-feeds-feedburner-mix.html)

I don't think I would want to replace my current feeds as they already have subscribers, but maybe adding an additional feed for all the places I blog would be a good idea.

Can anyone else use this?

[SarahG]

I already do that for my site. they stole my idea :eek: ;)

[ses5909]

I thought of you when I wrote this Sarah. Do you manually update your feed or did you write a plugin to update the feed for the main page? If igured a lot of people without the technical skills that you have might wonder how to do this.

[shyflower]

Well, being technically challenged, I don't understand how that works. What's the benefit?

[ses5909]

Right now you have two rss feeds, one for older-space and one for your poetry site. If you combined them both, people could just subscribe to 1 feed but get updates from both blogs.

This is good because let's say I know about your poetry blog, but not your other one, this would expose me to it.

I know with SarahG's multiple blogs, at first I didn't know she had a few things going on so I was missing posts. Now I just go to her homepage though and view it all.

It's a good way to expose more of yourself...or your blogs i think.

Of course if you have a web dev blog and a pr0n blog, you may not want your clients to know you're also running the pr0n blog.

[ses5909]

actually, even if I don't create one to put on my blogs, it would be good to have one to put here in my rss feeds options; everyone here alreayd knows about my pr0n blogs anyway :p!

[SarahG]

I thought of you when I wrote this Sarah. Do you manually update your feed or did you write a plugin to update the feed for the main page? If igured a lot of people without the technical skills that you have might wonder how to do this.

How it works involves just 2 files. The main one is the updater. It uses MagpieRSS to read the 3 rss feeds, one per site, and it updates a mysql database table with the posts. This is run at midnight by cron or manually if I run the updater file after posting. Then the RSS file just pulls the last 10 posts out of this table and creates the feed file.

I only use a database because I didn't realise Magpie has a built in cache system, however it doesn't always work. Theoretically you could just use magpie each time a user visited the page, but that's loading a lot of files from magpie to just check if the cache has been updated. As both domains are the on the same server it's just as easy to use the method that's there.

My reason for setting it up was because I had 2 sites on one domain which I knew some people read both and I wanted to allow new visitors to the site to see both. Then I figured I'd through in my foodie blog, but I'm going to take that out the equation again now and leave it at the 2 on the same domain. I know it's all confusing ;)

But I agree, it's not the easiest method for those who don't understand a scripting language. It took me a whole evening to get working and then the recent major update on WP 2.3 broke the front page! But it did allow me to understand and learn Magpie which was useful for my plugin and a feedreader style site I'm currently working on for someone.

[ses5909]

I had to learn Magpie to so I could incorporate that "recent post" into this site. It's fun to learn new things...even if you break a bunch of others along the way :D

[SarahG]

Always :D

[ses5909]

Ok, I created a pipe for my username: ses5909

http://feeds.feedburner.com/Ses5909

Right now it lists them all by blog so we will have to see what happens when I make a new post on one of them. If it updates as it should, I will replace my rss feed here in the forums with that one.

[jMcQuarrie]

And where's the p0rn? ;)

[ses5909]

And where's the p0rn? ;)
:blush:

Ok, it's not working as expected. I just made a new post and I would have expected it to show at the top of my feed, but it's showing below. :(

[ses5909]

Update, I was talking to Garry Conn last week and we were talking about just this. He had a friend of his put together a video to illustrate how to create the pipe, SORT the pipe (What I need), and also filter by author.

The video is very well done!

Yahoo Pipes: A Complete Video Tutorial On How To Use Yahoo Pipes (http://www.garryconn.com/yahoo-pipes-a-complete-video-tutorial-on-how-to-use-yahoo-pipes.php)