Feature suggestions for the Feeds plugin

[derlinzer]

1.) Redirection should be possible for every single feed.
2.) Auto-discovery should be possible for every single feed.
3.) Support for FeedBurner's "MyBrand" feature.

Why? Given the current options, it is not possible to redirect the entry and commentary feed to FeedBurner feeds.

Also with the current options it is not possible to "force" FeedBurner feeds for entries AND comments. Eg. Firefox easily allows to select which feed to subscribe to from the address bar - this nice feature should be fully supported by S9y.

And finally, with the current plugin options it is not possible to use FeedBurner's former PRO and now free feature "MyBrand" (using eg. feeds.mydomain.com/entryfeed instead of feeds.feedburner.com/entryfeed).

What do you think about these suggestions?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Why? Given the current options, it is not possible to redirect the entry and commentary feed to FeedBurner feeds.

You can achieve that with a mod_rewrite redirection.

It's actually an overkill to offer a relocation URL for every single feed, so I don't know if a developer will take on the job to add the plugin with those.

Autodiscovery is IMHO only good for RSS 2.0, Atom 1.0 and comment feeds. All other feeds are simply out of date and shouldn't really be used anymore. RSS2.0 and Atom are alrady autodiscovered, so advertising the comment feed could also be done in a custom index.tpl template file.

So, I do think your additions are well, but also a bit complex to be handled in a nice user-intuitive way. So I hope someone can take on that task.

Regards,
Garvin

[derlinzer]

Gavin, thanks for the reply.

You're completely right, i and a lot of other users can do that via adding redirections to .htaccess and code to templates, but since S9y's focus is on ease of use and modifying without touching code, i think these options would better be offered in the plugin.

Speaking of the out-of-date-feeds, why not drop them and implement autodiscovery settings for entries and comments (plus redirections) to FeedBurner? In the end, the plugin could offer three different feeds and two redirections (just two fields, where the user can enter the FeedBurner URL. This way, the plugin could also take advance of the mentioned "MyBrand"-featrue.

That would seem more user friendly to me, than it is now.

I created a simple mockup of how i think the plugin could look like:

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[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Speaking of the out-of-date-feeds, why not drop them

Some bloggers might still be subscribed to them. So why remove functionality, when it can stand on its own?

and implement autodiscovery settings for entries and comments (plus redirections) to FeedBurner? In the end, the plugin could offer three different feeds and two redirections (just two fields, where the user can enter the FeedBurner URL. This way, the plugin could also take advance of the mentioned "MyBrand"-featrue.

But the way I see it, each RSS feed would need a distinct feedburner ID. Plus, we also need to think about per-category RSS feeds. Those should also get the opportinuty to get redirected properly, right? And I can't really imagine a good interface for this.

Your mockup looks nice, but it cannot be done. The plugin api only allows one config item per row, you can't really combine radio buttons AND an input field on a single row.

Best regards,
Garvin

[johncanary]

Hi!

1.) What's the easiest way to add a "static copyright notice" to all RSS Feeds?
Well, I modified the Admin interface to accept additional parameters.

* Field for copyright notice, default text and %year% token for current year.
* Field for Feedburner My Brand Pro, works with 'forced' feedburner as well.



2.) Comments are not part of the RSS feeds, are they. Or did I miss something?
Well, I just noticed it. "RSS 2.0 Comments".
That part of the question is answered by myself.

3.) I don't get the meaning of the Field "ttl" (time-to-live)

Amount of minutes after which your blog should not be cached any more by foreign sites/applications (empty: hidden) [RSS 2.0]

What exactly does that mean. How does it relate to feedreaders like Google Reader, Feedburner. Any explanation would be appreciated. I use Feedburner.com with my branded Feed URL: http://blog-feeds.fcon21.biz/Ebiz-booster-blog

Currently I have set it to 120 minutes.

Does this relate to the lifetime of a cached copy or the time the posting was published first?

4.) Field "pubDate" set to yes is a good thing, isn't it.
I guess it's usefull.

5.) I have added a static Copyright notice (with dynamic %year% insertion) at the end of each item in the RSS 2.0 feed. (For simplicity, just added to the feed_2.0.tpl file)

If anybody is interested in this UPDATE, let me know.