New Plugin: Author Feeds,

Written in Plano, TX on December 17, 2008 and tagged with , , and .

If you run a Habari blog with multiple authors and would like to be able to get an Atom feed of a single users posts, then you are now in luck.

Today I am releasing a plugin I wrote for one of my other sites, WeDavis3. Basically I wanted to grab all my posts from the family site and pull them into my lifestream here on Sillyness, Werd. A couple of lines of code later and voila, Author Feeds was born. Read the rest »

Atom support in WordPress,

Written in Plano, TX on September 25, 2007 and tagged with , , and .

Sam Ruby, Mr. RSS, pointed out that WordPress 2.3 ‘dexter’ has added "full atom 1.0 support, including the publishing protocol" which is a major accomplishment, trust me. We added Atom 1.0/APP support to Habari in November 2006 and it was a laborious task.

The spec is an ever shifting landscape and worse still, there aren’t many platforms that implement the protocol correctly. One thing that I noticed in Mr. Ruby’s article was that he played some kind of role in the WP implementation. We (being Habari) would love to have some recommendations on our Atom implementation. We are not silly enough to think we have it nailed perfectly. Read the rest »