Outside blogs
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I just switched over to a new blog module + an aggregator module that will allow users to syndicate their existing blogs on the site. The external blogs will show up on the blog index just like native blog posts, but we're currently not showing them on the front page. On the todo list is allowing filtering by tags (ie only show stuff marked Travel or Vacation etc)...
Let me know if a)you notice anything weird about blogs (ie links not pointing where they should) or b)you want to try out the aggregator or c)you can think of a short clear way to label this function (outside blog? external blog? blog feeds?). It needs to be clear that these are feeds *into* the site, not going out... thanks
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By admin on 2006-10-18 05:10
admin
Already noticed
*the weird green box at the top of blogs *the links to blog feeds are wrong *breadcrumbs missing
admin
update
-breadcrumbs are fixed -feeds are back up, but the menu link is still off -working on green box (it's a known bug)
admin
fixed
all these issues have been addressed.
Jonboy
Tags?
Any progress on filtering by tags? I have 7+ years invested in a Blogger blog, so I'm not going to switch, but I'd be happy to syndicate it.
admin
#1 Priority
This is our top priority right now. Unfortunately the Drupal module we were working with has been abandoned (for some good reasons), we're now playing catch up with a new module. We should have something for you to play with in the very near future (ie days).
Since you've brought it up, I'm going to bug you to help us test it ;-)
Could you post the url to your rss feed?
Thanks, Admin Maj
Jonboy
Maybe
OK, I think this is right: http://www.pseudoprime.com/atom.xml
I've never actually used the feed, so if someone has advice as to how to set it up better w/ Blogger, I'm all ears.
I have a 'travel' tag; I'm not sure how that interacts with the feed.
Jon
admin
Beta
So I have a working version on the site, I just haven't added links to it from the nav yet. It will import an external rss feed and display items tagged with "travel" "wikitravel" "extra" or "trips" -- is this going to work for folks?
Keep in mind the next step is to allow you set your preferences to either filter on a term or display all.
Jon, try going to
http://extra.wikitravel.org/node/add/feed
and adding your blog.
Let me know how it goes.
Admin Maj
Jonboy
Filtering
Hmm, doesn't seem to be filtering. See: http://crossroads.world66.com/feed/394 which is definitely *not* a travel-tagged post.
Jon
admin
Oops
I set up your feed before I added the code to let you pick your own filter term, so you didn't have one. I updated your feed to filter on travel and now it all seems good.
Thanks (yet again) for being an excellent beta tester!
Jonboy
That's weird
The aforementioned one is gone, but this one: http://crossroads.world66.com/feed/396 (non-travel) is still there.
admin
Fixed
I had to hand-delete the ones that got in before I added the filter and I missed that one. It's gone now.
Thanks maj
Jonboy
Thanks
Could you also zap 395,397,398,399,400 and 403?
Edit: OK, I figured out how to do that on my own.
As it turns out, 403 was tagged with "frequent travel", as distinct from "travel" -- i.e., blog posts about accumulating miles/points, etc. I may change that tag so it's not picked up by Extra.
Jon
admin
Hope you don't mind
But I went ahead and added your blog, Jon.
I managed to rollout the filtering features and wanted to make sure it all worked find with a real blog on the live site.
You can make changes to the title, description, etc at http://extra.wikitravel.org/344 (I'll be setting up nicer urls for it asap).
Let me know if you have any feedback.
I invite other folks to try it out while I work on adding links to the navigation and documentation.
Jonboy
'Page not found'.
I get 'page not found' when accessing that page.
Also, is there a way to associate my blog with me? If I go to my user page, it says I don't have any blog posts. It would make sense to see it there.
admin
Associate with user...
Yeah, there's a little bug right now where the feed items (ie the individual posts) aren't inheriting the username associated with the feed. As soon as I get that fixed you'll see your outside blog posts show up on your blog page.
Thanks admin maj
admin
Fixed
That wasn't too hard... you should now see your outside blog posts on your blog index.
Thanks again for the feedback! maj
Jonboy
Excellent
Now, in http://crossroads.world66.com/tracker/all, it shows me as owning the posts. But if I go to http://crossroads.world66.com/blog/Jonboy, there's nothing there.
Jon
admin
That's weird
Cause I see them just fine... which makes me think it's a permission problem. Try again when you have a sec (and by the way, you can also start using http://extra.wikitravel.org/ instead of the world66 url)...`
Jonboy
Nope
http://extra.wikitravel.org/blog/Jonboy still turns up nothing for me.
admin
Go it!
That was a funny one: the page that shows both internal and external blogs is /blogs not /blog -- there's an old link in the crossroads.world66.com version that I need to update.
Go to: http://crossroads.world66.com/blogs/Jonboy and you'll see them...
Another thing I wouldn't have spotted without your help!
admin
Oh, and I should mention
The external blog posts only show up on http://extra.wikitravel.org/blogs not on the main page. I can change this if we want, but I thought it was best to highlight native blog posts first.
Jonboy
That's great!
I was worried that my blog posts would be too high of a percentage of the posts; I like it better this way.
Hmm...maybe I should have been more worried about a picture of me shirtless appearing on this site. :-)
Jonboy
Tags?
Here's a different tag-related question. Would it be possible to add the possibility to tag feed items? I'd like, for example, http://extra.wikitravel.org/tag/Nassau to point to http://extra.wikitravel.org/388. I think this would require me to add a Nassau tag to the page. I'd rather the tagging be done in Wikitravel, otherwise you'd be requiring people to have blog tags that matched Wikitravel article names exactly, which could be kind of annoying.
Jon
admin
destination tags
Yeah, the default feed module only allows you to associate one vocabulary with a feed, I've hacked it to allow the feed filter and now I'll work on adding destinations too.
Thanks again for all your feedback on this one!
admin
Turns out...
I could do it through the admin interface-- it's only feeds that are limited in their tags, not feed items.
You should now be able to edit your feed items and add the destination tags.
Jonboy
Umm...
I don't see how to do that...
Jon
admin
sorry
you should be able to click on the title of any of your feed items and then see an edit tab. Clicking on that will get you to a form page where you can edit the item just like it was a local blog post (ie add/change tags, destinations, content, etc).
[ETA] It occurs to me that this is a bad time to try and work on your feed-- I'm trying to debug a problem with Zach Mark and Evan's feeds at the moment and things are, shall we say "in flux" because I can't recreate the bug on the development site where I usually do debugging.
Pardon my dust.
Jonboy
Not getting an edit tab.
I'm not getting an edit tab on: http://extra.wikitravel.org/388
--Jon
admin
Try now...
I made the permissions even more, er, permissive.
Jonboy
Sadly...
...still no.
admin
OK,
I've figured out what the problem is (it's super weird!): there's some sort of caching going on between feed set ups so that one feed will have the filter tag and other fields from the last created feed. For example, Evan's feed was just showing up as being authored by Mark and Mark's feed was trying to use the filter set up by Jon.
Now all I have to do is fix it ;-).
admin
Whew.
Ok, fixed. I know way too much about this module.
The only outstanding bug(s) is that it seems to only be grabbing the first tag for some types of feeds, so if your filter isn't the first one, it's not going to see it.
I will continue the debugging tomorrow.
Thanks again for everyones patience!
Jonboy
Not showing up
I haven't had any of my posts to my regular blog show up here recently. Any idea what's going wrong?
admin
Hmmm
I'm getting an "An illegal choice has been detected. Please contact the site administrator." I'm guessing there was a problem with the last module upgrade. I will investigate and roll out a fix ASAP. Thanks for reporting this.
Thanks, Maj
admin
Good and Bad news
The good news is that I unblocked the pipe and all the outside feeds came rushing back in. The bad news is that the dates are all off so they're all out of order...
Should have things sorted out ASAP.
Thanks (oh, and I was missing your posts! I just figured you weren't traveling much-- glad that wasn't the case)
Admin Maj
Jonboy
Thanks
Yeah, some of my "travel" entries lately are less than scintillating, though. I'm excited about my new "toy" -- Treo 755p, which will allow me to post pictures directly to the blog from the phone. I finally figured out how to do that right as I got to the end of my trip. Ah, well, only 7 weeks until the drive back.
Jon
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