Culturegroove-
I’d highly recommend cg-feedreader, which you can get over at David Chait’s site:
http://www.chait.net/index.php?p=238
You can put a feed anywhere on your site you want.
Hope this helps.
thanks for the suggestion. i got the plugin installed but i am still not sure how to add the code to the child page. do i need a plugin to allow for php in a post?
Culture groove-
Indeed, to put php in the body of a post or page (rather than in the php source document), you will need a plugin. Thankfully, such a plugin exists.
CG-Quickphp, which you can find here:
http://www.chait.net/index.php?p=310
Yet another David Chait plugin. Since I’m mentioning him, his CG-Referrer plugin is also great!
-mp
monkeypup
thanks for the suggestions. i just can’t get these to work. i have both of these installed and activated.. and i assume i’ve got to add the php in the html of the post. if i use regular php functions the post is blank. if i use quickphp the post is not only blank, but wordpress doesn’t save the code at all. i have no idea what i’m doing wrong.
🙁
i’ve been trying to figure this out for a week and i’m starting to go a little funny in the head!
🙂
if you read the docs for quickphp, you’d see it will do one function call, not bracketed further. So one call to getSomeFeed will work fine. but trying to do a big block of <?php ... stuff... stuff... ?> inside a quickphp tag won’t work…
I haven’t tested quickphp in the new WYSIWYG editor — it is possible that to do PHP and such you need to use the old vanilla editor.
Otherwise, if the page content is going to be ENTIRELY the results of CG-FeedRead, you can create a custom page template and do the call from there, then tell the page to use the new custom template. I do that instead for anything more than quickphp does… 😉
-d
david,
Honestly, I don’t get most of what you are saying. I am still trying to wrap my head around many of the things that wordpress does. If I create a child page via ‘Write Pages’ if forces me to add content via a post. I want to use a child page as I want it to look like the rest of my blog and I can’t figure out how to edit it any other way. I have tried numermorous times to add your sample feed and quickphp code in various places and posts but nothing seems to work.
I suppose i could try to create a new page using the existing index.php and see if the feed code works that way since i’d be working around a post. i guess i’ll just have to give it a try and see if it works.
any other suggestions are very welcome. i do appreciate the help.
david,
i finally got the plugin to work in my sidebar. and it looks great. thanks for your help. i’ll definately add a link to your site.
Sure, give him all the credit!
🙂
Just kidding. David’s got some great plugins and deserves the praise.
cg – if you want to try to get it embedded in a page or custom template at some point, ping me at my site and I can try to help directly… some of these things are hard to guide a person through via a forum post. 😉
glad you got it running in the sidebar at least — that means that if you want to get it into a page at some point, it’s already up and running.
-d
