Comments on: Adding RSS Feeds per Category or Why I Really Like WordPress http://www.elsua.net/2006/11/28/adding-rss-feeds-per-category-or-why-i-really-like-wordpress/ A blog about Knowledge Management, Communities, Collaboration, Learning, Social Computing and Work/Life Balance Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:56:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: E L S U A ~ A KM Blog » Blog Archive » Bringing People and Processes Together by Mike Roche http://www.elsua.net/2006/11/28/adding-rss-feeds-per-category-or-why-i-really-like-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-39680 E L S U A ~ A KM Blog » Blog Archive » Bringing People and Processes Together by Mike Roche Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:17:49 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2006/11/28/adding-rss-feeds-per-category-or-why-i-really-like-wordpress/#comment-39680 [...] A couple of days ago I mentioned how I was also involved in the process of creating a new category here in elsua.net based on the good amount of feedback that I have been getting through comments, e-mails, instant messages, phone calls, etc. etc. that I just couldn’t ignore, nor neglect. Well, after having given it some further thought, and based on what quite a few of you have been saying all along, I am now happy to announce the creation and availability (With this first post, of course) of a new category over here under the title "IBM". [...] [...] A couple of days ago I mentioned how I was also involved in the process of creating a new category here in elsua.net based on the good amount of feedback that I have been getting through comments, e-mails, instant messages, phone calls, etc. etc. that I just couldn’t ignore, nor neglect. Well, after having given it some further thought, and based on what quite a few of you have been saying all along, I am now happy to announce the creation and availability (With this first post, of course) of a new category over here under the title "IBM". [...]

]]> By: Luis Suarez http://www.elsua.net/2006/11/28/adding-rss-feeds-per-category-or-why-i-really-like-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-39252 Luis Suarez Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:57:32 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2006/11/28/adding-rss-feeds-per-category-or-why-i-really-like-wordpress/#comment-39252 Hello folks ! Thanks a bunch for dropping by and for sharing your thoughts ! <span style="font-weight: bold;">John, </span>that is, indeed, a superb idea and something that I think I may be give it a try really soon, specially as I am finding out that the list of categories is actually growing up rather fast and would probably need to figure out a way to trimmer it. And your suggestion about the weblog post that Improbulus created to get things going is just terrific ! Now I just need the time to implement it. Hopefully, over the next few days if I can manage to find the time for it. We shall see. <br /><br /> <blockquote>"<span style="font-style: italic;">You could also run each of these through feedburner, so you can track statistics…for me the next step would be to ask Feedburner if there is a way to combine all the feedburner feeds for your blog into one feed and promote one chicklet</span>" </blockquote> <br /><br /> Actually, I think that what you describe above is already available by <a href="http://www.elsua.net/2006/09/19/feedburner-plugin-21-keeping-track-of-all-of-your-syndication-needs/" rel="nofollow">making use of the Feedburner Plugin 2.1</a>. I have actually set it up in my weblog and, unless I may have messed up things really bad, it is up and running successfully. It would actually collect all of my weblog's syndication feeds and will just consolidate them into one, <a href="http://www.feedburner.com" rel="nofollow">Feedburner</a>, with the really useful results that it would be able to track them all and help you keep a count of it all. For instance, ever since I created the weblog post arund the creation of the categorised feeds I have seen how the number of subscribers continues to increase, effectivly, over time. So it may be worth while having a look into it. <br /><br /> Thanks as well for the great tip of making use of <a href="http://www.blogdigger.com" rel="nofollow">Blogdigger</a> to do some further tweaking of syndicating information resources. <br /><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dennis</span>, thanks for the tip as well on Squarespace. I actually knew that they were offering this feature and thought it would be rather interesting for those who are not sold out on Feedburner and see if they would be able to make it work for them. Or not. One thing for sure is that it would make things a lot easier to manage and thinking how <a href="http://elsua.net" rel="nofollow">elsua.net</a> is about to go bilingual it just made sense to me, so that folks would be able to subscribe to the category or categories they would feel more. However, with that said, I think this is something that I am going to watch over time and see how successful it is. If it sticks in I may do some further work on it and see how it develops. If not I think I would leave it as is. <br /><br /> Thanks again for the feedback comments and for dropping by, folks! Hello folks ! Thanks a bunch for dropping by and for sharing your thoughts ! John, that is, indeed, a superb idea and something that I think I may be give it a try really soon, specially as I am finding out that the list of categories is actually growing up rather fast and would probably need to figure out a way to trimmer it. And your suggestion about the weblog post that Improbulus created to get things going is just terrific ! Now I just need the time to implement it. Hopefully, over the next few days if I can manage to find the time for it. We shall see.

“You could also run each of these through feedburner, so you can track statistics…for me the next step would be to ask Feedburner if there is a way to combine all the feedburner feeds for your blog into one feed and promote one chicklet”

Actually, I think that what you describe above is already available by making use of the Feedburner Plugin 2.1. I have actually set it up in my weblog and, unless I may have messed up things really bad, it is up and running successfully. It would actually collect all of my weblog’s syndication feeds and will just consolidate them into one, Feedburner, with the really useful results that it would be able to track them all and help you keep a count of it all. For instance, ever since I created the weblog post arund the creation of the categorised feeds I have seen how the number of subscribers continues to increase, effectivly, over time. So it may be worth while having a look into it.

Thanks as well for the great tip of making use of Blogdigger to do some further tweaking of syndicating information resources.

Dennis, thanks for the tip as well on Squarespace. I actually knew that they were offering this feature and thought it would be rather interesting for those who are not sold out on Feedburner and see if they would be able to make it work for them. Or not. One thing for sure is that it would make things a lot easier to manage and thinking how elsua.net is about to go bilingual it just made sense to me, so that folks would be able to subscribe to the category or categories they would feel more. However, with that said, I think this is something that I am going to watch over time and see how successful it is. If it sticks in I may do some further work on it and see how it develops. If not I think I would leave it as is.

Thanks again for the feedback comments and for dropping by, folks!

]]> By: Dennis McDonald http://www.elsua.net/2006/11/28/adding-rss-feeds-per-category-or-why-i-really-like-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-39018 Dennis McDonald Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:19:38 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2006/11/28/adding-rss-feeds-per-category-or-why-i-really-like-wordpress/#comment-39018 Luis- I agree that is a nice feature. I use Squarespace's web-served publishing service for my blog and it also auto-generates feeds for all category tags. I don't, however, list all of them on my feed page (http://www.ddmcd.com/feeds) since I only pubish between 3 and 5 posts per week. - Dennis) Luis-

I agree that is a nice feature. I use Squarespace’s web-served publishing service for my blog and it also auto-generates feeds for all category tags. I don’t, however, list all of them on my feed page (http://www.ddmcd.com/feeds) since I only pubish between 3 and 5 posts per week.

- Dennis)

]]> By: John Tropea http://www.elsua.net/2006/11/28/adding-rss-feeds-per-category-or-why-i-really-like-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-38909 John Tropea Wed, 29 Nov 2006 03:30:23 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2006/11/28/adding-rss-feeds-per-category-or-why-i-really-like-wordpress/#comment-38909 Great idea...you could make a drop down menu for these category feeds...see the blog post at Improbulus: http://consumingexperience.blogspot.com/2005/12/feeds-partial-or-full-how-to-have-both.html You could also run each of these through feedburner, so you can track statistics...for me the next step would be to ask Feedburner if there is a way to combine all the feedburner feeds for your blog into one feed and promote one chicklet, ...I mentioned this in the end of a past post: http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2006/06/23/rss-feed-for-your-feedburner-circulation/ Actually, this is mentioned at the end of the Improbulus post. For those people that don't have category feeds, you can use the Blogdigger search engine to hack up feeds for your categories, see this past post: http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2006/01/13/blog-category-feed-hack/ Great idea…you could make a drop down menu for these category feeds…see the blog post at Improbulus: http://consumingexperience.blogspot.com/2005/12/feeds-partial-or-full-how-to-have-both.html

You could also run each of these through feedburner, so you can track statistics…for me the next step would be to ask Feedburner if there is a way to combine all the feedburner feeds for your blog into one feed and promote one chicklet, …I mentioned this in the end of a past post: http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2006/06/23/rss-feed-for-your-feedburner-circulation/ Actually, this is mentioned at the end of the Improbulus post.

For those people that don’t have category feeds, you can use the Blogdigger search engine to hack up feeds for your categories, see this past post:
http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2006/01/13/blog-category-feed-hack/

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