Comments on: Put your dormant domains to use with WordPress http://www.themelab.com/2008/03/26/put-your-dormant-domains-to-use-with-wordpress/ Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:05:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Richard http://www.themelab.com/2008/03/26/put-your-dormant-domains-to-use-with-wordpress/#comment-11586 Richard Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:09:29 +0000 http://www.themelab.com/2008/03/26/put-your-dormant-domains-to-use-with-wordpress/#comment-11586 hm... i guess this comment form doesn't like me lol let's try it with an html tag <code><?php if (is_syndicated()) : ?> <?php the_excerpt(); ?> <?php else : ?> <?php the_content(); ?> <?php endif; ?></code> hm… i guess this comment form doesn’t like me lol

let’s try it with an html tag
<?php if (is_syndicated()) : ?>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<?php else : ?>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

]]> By: Richard http://www.themelab.com/2008/03/26/put-your-dormant-domains-to-use-with-wordpress/#comment-11585 Richard Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:08:00 +0000 http://www.themelab.com/2008/03/26/put-your-dormant-domains-to-use-with-wordpress/#comment-11585 Oh okay I found that part with the category now I think. It looks a lot different now tho ( http://i50.tinypic.com/1q1opv.png ). In that case it should be possible to just exclude the "Syndicated Posts Category" and put it below the content? The code I am using right now is the following in case somebody else needs that: [code] [/code] Oh okay I found that part with the category now I think. It looks a lot different now tho ( http://i50.tinypic.com/1q1opv.png ). In that case it should be possible to just exclude the “Syndicated Posts Category” and put it below the content?

The code I am using right now is the following in case somebody else needs that:
[code]

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]]> By: Leland http://www.themelab.com/2008/03/26/put-your-dormant-domains-to-use-with-wordpress/#comment-11582 Leland Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:49:27 +0000 http://www.themelab.com/2008/03/26/put-your-dormant-domains-to-use-with-wordpress/#comment-11582 There should be an option in the FeedWordPress page to assign certain feeds to certain categories, like in this <a href="http://www.themelab.com/wp-content/uploads/feedwordpress-syndicated-post-options.png" rel="nofollow">screenshot</a>. About the Network News, not sure how they do that, probably something for a future tutorial. Also you should put your code between "code" tags or it won't display here. There should be an option in the FeedWordPress page to assign certain feeds to certain categories, like in this screenshot.

About the Network News, not sure how they do that, probably something for a future tutorial.

Also you should put your code between “code” tags or it won’t display here.

]]> By: Richard http://www.themelab.com/2008/03/26/put-your-dormant-domains-to-use-with-wordpress/#comment-11581 Richard Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:10:04 +0000 http://www.themelab.com/2008/03/26/put-your-dormant-domains-to-use-with-wordpress/#comment-11581 Hi Leland, I didn't find a way to put the syndicated posts into a certain category. That would be great because what I really wanna do is a site that kinda works like smashingmagazine.com. The self written articles first followed by the "Network News". Do you have any ideas how to do that? What I am using at the moment to solve my problem (not the best way but good enough at this stage) is the following code: Hi Leland,

I didn’t find a way to put the syndicated posts into a certain category. That would be great because what I really wanna do is a site that kinda works like smashingmagazine.com. The self written articles first followed by the “Network News”. Do you have any ideas how to do that?

What I am using at the moment to solve my problem (not the best way but good enough at this stage) is the following code:

]]> By: Leland http://www.themelab.com/2008/03/26/put-your-dormant-domains-to-use-with-wordpress/#comment-11576 Leland Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:16:27 +0000 http://www.themelab.com/2008/03/26/put-your-dormant-domains-to-use-with-wordpress/#comment-11576 Richard, if your autoblogged posts are in a certain category, you could use a conditional tag (in_category) to display excerpts for those posts and full content for others outside that category. More info is in my <a href="http://www.themelab.com/2008/04/14/the-ultimate-guide-to-wordpress-conditional-tags/" rel="nofollow">tutorial</a> here. Richard, if your autoblogged posts are in a certain category, you could use a conditional tag (in_category) to display excerpts for those posts and full content for others outside that category. More info is in my tutorial here.

]]> By: Richard http://www.themelab.com/2008/03/26/put-your-dormant-domains-to-use-with-wordpress/#comment-11558 Richard Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:01:00 +0000 http://www.themelab.com/2008/03/26/put-your-dormant-domains-to-use-with-wordpress/#comment-11558 Hi, I am just trying to set up an semi-auto blog but there is a problem I came across. When i try to limit the size of the articles and do this with the_excerpt() method there is no chance for me to write own articles anymore. Any way how I can fix this? Hi, I am just trying to set up an semi-auto blog but there is a problem I came across. When i try to limit the size of the articles and do this with the_excerpt() method there is no chance for me to write own articles anymore. Any way how I can fix this?

]]> By: Chris http://www.themelab.com/2008/03/26/put-your-dormant-domains-to-use-with-wordpress/#comment-11287 Chris Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:06:30 +0000 http://www.themelab.com/2008/03/26/put-your-dormant-domains-to-use-with-wordpress/#comment-11287 That makes sense. Thanks for your help! I appreciate it. That makes sense. Thanks for your help! I appreciate it.

]]> By: Leland http://www.themelab.com/2008/03/26/put-your-dormant-domains-to-use-with-wordpress/#comment-11286 Leland Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:47:13 +0000 http://www.themelab.com/2008/03/26/put-your-dormant-domains-to-use-with-wordpress/#comment-11286 Chris, I don't have any more aggregator blogs anymore. About the images, it hotlinks them because their image URL is what is in the feed content. If you use the_excerpt() I don't think it will display any images, just text. It's not really an issue but how it's supposed to work, as there isn't any mechanism to grab the image and cache it on your server that I'm aware of in FeedWordPress. Chris, I don’t have any more aggregator blogs anymore. About the images, it hotlinks them because their image URL is what is in the feed content. If you use the_excerpt() I don’t think it will display any images, just text.

It’s not really an issue but how it’s supposed to work, as there isn’t any mechanism to grab the image and cache it on your server that I’m aware of in FeedWordPress.

]]> By: Chris http://www.themelab.com/2008/03/26/put-your-dormant-domains-to-use-with-wordpress/#comment-11285 Chris Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:40:31 +0000 http://www.themelab.com/2008/03/26/put-your-dormant-domains-to-use-with-wordpress/#comment-11285 Ah, good idea! That might be a reasonable workaround, as long as I can find a way to control the excerpt length and make it a little longer. I notice that this post is a bit old (although still awesome). Do you still maintain an aggregator blog somewhere with Feedwordpress? For some reason Feedwordpress will pull just about everything from the feeds properly, but for some reason it just hotlinks the images instead of placing them on my server. Have you had this issue? Ah, good idea! That might be a reasonable workaround, as long as I can find a way to control the excerpt length and make it a little longer.

I notice that this post is a bit old (although still awesome). Do you still maintain an aggregator blog somewhere with Feedwordpress? For some reason Feedwordpress will pull just about everything from the feeds properly, but for some reason it just hotlinks the images instead of placing them on my server. Have you had this issue?

]]> By: Leland http://www.themelab.com/2008/03/26/put-your-dormant-domains-to-use-with-wordpress/#comment-11284 Leland Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:33:35 +0000 http://www.themelab.com/2008/03/26/put-your-dormant-domains-to-use-with-wordpress/#comment-11284 Chris, that's a great question. There is a content limit plugin out there, but you could also replace any calls to the_content() with the_excerpt() wherever the posts would be displayed (index.php, single.php, archive.php, etc.) Chris, that’s a great question. There is a content limit plugin out there, but you could also replace any calls to the_content() with the_excerpt() wherever the posts would be displayed (index.php, single.php, archive.php, etc.)

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