Podcasts about simplepie

Nick and James discuss the best methods for aggregating a news or RSS feed onto your homepage or sub pages of your site. This is designed for both usability and Search Engine Optimisation.

The “Really Simple” part of RSS is sometimes misleading. What if you want to pull in content from an RSS feed and display it on your site? Doing that from scratch would be no-so-easy, but thankfully we have wonderful SimplePie to do the heavy lifting for us. In this screencast we build a really simple site that grabs content from multiple RSS feeds, smushes them together, and displays them using our own custom markup. Links from Video: SimplePie View Demo… Read article “#55: Adding RSS Content with SimplePie”

In part three of this series, we finish up the structure of the site and start diving into the details. The typography is set up, the right sidebar is set up, and the footer if flushed out. Then we use SimplePie to pull in the external RSS feed and jQuery to pull in the “social” stuff. Not exactly WordPress related, but I warned you! Then we look at styling up the rest of the WordPress layout types like Single pages … Read article “#27: Designing for WordPress: Part Three”