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Generating feeds for specific groups of blogs using Blog Types plugin?

How would I go about generating RSS feeds for each blog type as I’ve defined them with the Blog Types plugin? Is that possible?

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:27:11
  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops

    Hiya,

    That’s definitely possible but we don’t have a purpose built plugin. We can look into making a plugin for this if other members are interested. It would definitely be a few weeks though.

    If anyone else is interested in such a plugin can we get a reply with a +1.

    Thanks,

    Andrew

  • nightlyfe
    • Design Lord, Child of Thor

    @andrew

    Is this something that postlists can handle?

    Can you briefly explain what’s going on behind the scenes with ‘blog type’ that would make it better for this type of application (other than the ability to select a blog type at signup)?

    I’m also looking to create sections of a blog, and will need a feed per section, but at this point simply using categories (or additional custom taxonomies) seems to be the way to go.

  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops

    Is this something that postlists can handle?

    I’m not really sure what you’re referring to. Is ‘postlists’ a plugin?

    Can you briefly explain what’s going on behind the scenes with ‘blog type’ that would make it better for this type of application (other than the ability to select a blog type at signup)?

    Our post indexer plugin works with the blog types plugin. So everything you need to generate a feed for a blog type is already available. You could actually just modify the posts feed plugin by adding the blog type bit into the url.

    Since we’re planning on releasing a plugin for this I’m not going to go into great detail. You can look at the post indexer table and code to see where the blog type is noted for each post.

    Thanks,

    Andrew

  • nightlyfe
    • Design Lord, Child of Thor

    Ok, great —

    I know your plugins are large site oriented, but could you point me to any sort of caching strategy for post indexer related plugins. Its not clear to me whether function calls to this plugin/table are in any way cached (for instance only query the database if there has been an update, whatever the output.)

    Perhaps this is more of a widget cache issue, but it seems most of the plugins that rely on this table are theme-based. I’m looking to use this,

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/section-widget/ but thats another thread..

    Relevant here is: How would one create a cached ‘section’ front page and RSS feed relating to that page?

    (reading up on post indexer and posts feed as well as wp-supercache)

  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops

    Hiya,

    I know your plugins are large site oriented, but could you point me to any sort of caching strategy for post indexer related plugins.

    There is no built in caching. There are two reasons for this:

    1) Most large sites have so many posts published per day that the site_posts and site_comments tables are updating every few minutes. You’re better off with a full page cache for those few minutes.

    2) If we added in caching we would have users complaining that the plugins don’t work because new posts don’t appear the second they’re published.

    Thanks,

    Andrew