pull posts from bulletin board to WordPress

[tcloud]

I currently use a facebook feed plugin to pull posts from our Association’s facebook page.
http://cloud-assn.org

We have a bulletin board at rootsweb dedicated to our genealogy research and I’d like to list posts to it in a similar fashion to the facebook plugin:
http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.cloud/mb.ashx

The above link to the bulletin board has a link for an RSS feed, but it doesn’t appear to work any longer, so any code would have to read the page and pull the topics from it.

Any suggestions appreciated.

thanks,
Tom

[bcworkz]

What software is running your bulletin board? If it’s bbPress, posts are stored as custom WP post types, just query for the post type as you would any custom post type. I’m not very familiar with bbPress, so I don’t know the details.

If the bb software is something else, the posts are still stored in a DB somehow, you should be able to connect to the DB and query for what you need. It may be that the bb is configured to be an oEmbed provider (WP is). If that’s the case you merely need to place a link in your WP post and the content will be displayed. Of course you would need to know the link. It may be worth determining the problem with the RSS feed through the developer and getting it fixed.