A simpler MagpieRSS feed reader method possible?
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 10:24 pm
Hello
Firstly thank you to all involved with Serendipity. Have been looking at it for a few hours and it seems brilliant and ideal for what I want.
However, I wonder if there is an easier way to use MagpieRSS for several reasons.
1. The current plugin seems to generate a 'feed from the incoming feed' in RSS, which I think some feeds do not allow and it seems you can only disable this through each individual feed item, rather than as a group.
2. I have tried to disable the feeds from the front page and only allow them from their own category as per instructions on another post, but this has not worked for me and if there is an error in the incoming feed, this then causes errors for the main page feeds themselves.
3. I imagine that using a lot of feeds needing cron updates will use a lot of bandwidth(?)
Please do not think this is criticism. I think that Serendipity looks brilliant and only wish I was clever enough to properly understand it.
I was just hoping someone might point me towards a method of using MagpieRSS with its own cache and refreshing on user page loading, as I have used elsewhere.
I hope this makes some kind of sense and wish everyone well with this excellent project.
Many thanks.
John
Firstly thank you to all involved with Serendipity. Have been looking at it for a few hours and it seems brilliant and ideal for what I want.
However, I wonder if there is an easier way to use MagpieRSS for several reasons.
1. The current plugin seems to generate a 'feed from the incoming feed' in RSS, which I think some feeds do not allow and it seems you can only disable this through each individual feed item, rather than as a group.
2. I have tried to disable the feeds from the front page and only allow them from their own category as per instructions on another post, but this has not worked for me and if there is an error in the incoming feed, this then causes errors for the main page feeds themselves.
3. I imagine that using a lot of feeds needing cron updates will use a lot of bandwidth(?)
Please do not think this is criticism. I think that Serendipity looks brilliant and only wish I was clever enough to properly understand it.
I was just hoping someone might point me towards a method of using MagpieRSS with its own cache and refreshing on user page loading, as I have used elsewhere.
I hope this makes some kind of sense and wish everyone well with this excellent project.
Many thanks.
John