I'm thinking about using RSS feeds to add some content to my Price Tapestry site. I'm using a PriceTapestyTemplates (PTT) template and have a good dialogue going with Dave over at PTT re: ongoing tweaks. I'm using Wordpress in a subfolder (/news) and had initially planned to use this for news, reviews and articles - doing all the posting/editing myself. PTT Dave has already written a script that displays Wordpress RSS feed on my PTT homepage.
However, the more I think about it, the more I'd like to just use available RSS feeds in my niche for the news and reviews - why rewrite, regurgitate, use time doing this? I would still use Wordpress for a site blog (posts) and articles (pages). Hopefully, this way I'd spend more time doing 'unique content' in Wordpress, but not waste time re-working news & reviews that are already available in RSS feeds.
Ideally, I'd like to get:
News - (from RSS feeds aggregated + edited if possible)
Reviews - (from RSS feeds aggregated + edited if possible)
Articles - (Wordpress pages)
Blog - (Wordpress posts)
and hopefully use some <PHP> magic to display the News, Reviews, Articles and Blog snippets in different <DIV> containers as required.
This leads to a number of questions:
1) Can you think of a not-too-complicated way of doing this in a PT site?
2) Would it be possible (best) to bring all the RSS feeds into Wordpress first and then call on them using PTT Dave's script (or similar).
As you can see I'm having all sorts of thoughts!! Perhaps this has been covered in another thread? Perhaps there's a more tidy way of doing this?
Any thoughts/help most welcome.
Regards,
Neil
Hi David,
Thanks for getting back to me.
Still milling things over in my mind but think I'm going to stick with configuration I've got for now:
Price Tapestry (in route)
Wordpress (in subfolder)
I was looking at an impressive script earlier today called CaRP that makes it easy to utilise RSS feeds on your sites:
- easy to embed any RSS feed into PHP, HTML or ASP pages.
- easy to format RSS feed the way you want it.
- works in Wordpress too using a CaRP/WP plugin
Basically, allows me to do all the stuff I was on about with my existing configuration, so will probably go down that road.
Thanks again for reply,
Neil
Hi Neil,
Have you thought about creating a site that uses one of the CMS systems (Drupal, Joomla etc.) combined with a Price Tapestry installation in a sub-directory?
This would allow you to use the various plugins and modules that these systems have, and at the same time you can easily bring a search box up to the top level simply by viewing the source of the main Price Tapestry page and copying the HTML between (and including) the
<form>tags.You could then of course use the templating / themeing systems of both products to create a seamless look and feel.... perhaps something to think about?
Cheers,
David.