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As noted previously<\/a>, I’ve been trying to find a way to fold a snapshot of an RSS feed — in this case my Google Reader shared items — into a daily blog post. I did this a while back as a manual process, but … well, it was a manual process, therefore labor-intensive and hit-and-miss.<\/p>\n

I finally found what I was looking for here: EconTech » Connecting Google Reader and WordPress: Digest Mode aka Daily Links ala Delicious<\/a>. The author started with the Digest Post<\/a> plug-in, and tweaked it so that it, well, worked with the current versions of WP. Part of that tweaking was actually changing the Google Reader Atom feed into RSS (which WP handles correctly*) by running it through Feedburner (turn off “Browser Friendly” and “Smart Feed” and turn on “Convert Format” to RSS 2.0). The enhanced version of the plug-in ostensibly gives the source of the feed (it doesn’t) and the notes posted with the GReader feed (it does). <\/p>\n

The author notes the enhanced plug-in works through WP 2.5; I’m running it successfully on 2.7.1.<\/p>\n

There’s also an updated version<\/a> that works in PHP 5 (vs PHP 4, which is what my host’s server is currently on).<\/p>\n

I’ve tweaked the labeled tweakable portions of the plug-in. I’ve also changed the format of the datestamp in the title (in the “Post supplied data” section, changing the %x to a better strftime format<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The plug-in works once per day, based on the time provided. Note, as the plug-in comment does, that the time identified is not the blog’s time, but the server’s time — which means you need to know where your server is actually situated (or else do some day-long tests to see when it fires off).<\/p>\n

At any rate — huzzah, it works! Which means that for those in the studio audience who don’t hang out in Google Reader, the stuff I flag to share will be easily (and in a static fashion) available here without my having to do anything. Now that’s convenience.<\/p>\n

(Currently I’m looking at having the links auto-post at 8 p.m. daily. We’ll see.)<\/p>\n

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* It is possible that earlier failures with the original Digest Post or Indigestion<\/a> plug-ins was due to not routing through a properly-configured Feedburner RSS feed.<\/p>\n

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As noted previously, I’ve been trying to find a way to fold a snapshot of an RSS feed — in this case my Google Reader shared items — into a daily blog post. 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