RSS feed generator needed – must have

  • Resolved jgoldbloom

    (@jgoldbloom)


    8 years ago

    @asgaros

    Generating an RSS feed from forum content is a must have and critical feature request for your users. 3 months ago in this “marked as resolved” support issue you noted there were higher priority items on your to-do list. I completely understand that… at the time.

    Nudge, nudge… is this on your radar now?

    As the forum content is stored in proprietary database tables and not standard WP core post schemas, this issue is dependent upon your code base for a long term solution. Putting my developer hat for a bit I might try to customize an interim solution in my child theme functions.php to generate a standalone feed with your data, but:

    1. My wish list would be to include forum content in a standard WP rss feed using core code, not have two feeds (WP posts, Asgaros forum topics).

    2. I would refrain from doing so if you’re going to do this sooner than later, the better solution.

    Comments appreciated.

    Thank you, as always.

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  • Plugin Author Asgaros

    (@asgaros)

    is this on your radar now

    It is, but it still doesnt have a very high priority. There are “new posts/topics” indicators in the overviews, there is a notification-functionality, so RSS-feeds would be “just” another way of news/notifications.

    Readable URLs and a Profile functionality are both heavily requested since a long time so it is at the top of the todo-list. And basically I would like to implement RSS-feeds as soon as WordPress has better API-functions for data-crawling in a tree-structure of custom-post-types. Why? Because it would allow me to use the existing functionality for the content without writing my own rss-logic again.

    So whats the plan for this: I can have a look if there is a quick (and dirty) way to implement it. If so, then this would be good news. But what I can say for sure is, that it will definitely not come in the next six weeks because I am not at home during this time which only allows me to give limited support at this time (or in other words: I cant code at all).

    Here is the ticket for it at my GitHub-list which you could follow to stay up2date about the progress:
    https://github.com/Asgaros/asgaros-forum/issues/116

    Plugin Author Asgaros

    (@asgaros)

    Update on it: I try my best to implement it in the upcoming v1.4.4 release.

    We need Feeds for Forums/Subforums and Topics, right? I dont want to include an overall-topic-feed because the content of it can depend on the current logged-in status.

    • This reply was modified 8 years ago by Asgaros.
    • This reply was modified 8 years ago by Asgaros.
    Thread Starter jgoldbloom

    (@jgoldbloom)

    Yep, Forums/Subs and topics – the latter is my wish list numero uno.

    I agree on WP core needing maturity, but could be ages, so:

    Just wanted to ensure this didn’t drop entirely off the radar, I did not expect immediate action when I said sooner. If not possible for 1.4.4 in even a basic format enjoy your upcoming hiatus and I’ll put my developer hat back on and do a custom implementation as I have a deadline for launch before your return.

    On a side note syndication is as powerful as SEO (and beyond local subscription) to bring in external traffic and expose a site beyond it’s web presence. Plus feed aggregation and daily news/feeds reading is so easy these days for end users both in OS’s and other popular means. So this is an important feature in the long run, my .02 based on experience.

    Cheers for the effort, no matter the recent outcome — truly appreciated. ?? ‘Nuff said on my part unless any followup needed.

    Plugin Author Asgaros

    (@asgaros)

    Yes, I know. I played a little bit around with it the last hours. Basically it is not hard to implement but there are some things which I have to keep in mind. For example WordPress has its own feed-mechanism when you access a site via the /feed URL. So I have to find a way to overwrite it or prevent the generation from it to avoid duplicate feeds for the same page.

    I feel a little bit uncomfortable to implement this now in a hurry for a release on monday. Especially because I think that I will not have any chance to release a (maybe necessary) patch when there are some critical bugs caused by it. So I think the best way is to wait for it until I am back because a clean and good implementation is import for me. I hope that you can understand my point of view.

    I put this topic to “Resolved” now because it helps me to keep an eye on other/new issues. This feature is on my todo-list anyway so it should be fine.

    Thread Starter jgoldbloom

    (@jgoldbloom)

    I understand completely. No problemo!

    Cheers and enjoy the time off.

    ??

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