In my search to expand the capability of this blog, I’ve found a bunch of bullshit that only works for useless spam-like sites but I found something that might come in handy at some point; I’ve found a way to get some relevant content for the blog – http://del.icio.us by pulling in links with tags and then having them pushed to the blog automagically…
Here’s how you would get stuff sent to your blog if you have a blog on WordPress.com:
- Go to del.icio.us and log in to your account. You go to “settings” and in the “Blogging” part you find “blog posting”
- Click the add new link
- job_name is the name for your posting job so you can keep them straight
- out_name is your login name for WordPress
- out_pass is your password
- out_url is the full URL of the XML-RPC like http://[yourblogname].wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php
- out_blog_id is your blog ID number from the search above
- First, go to your WordPress admin page.
- You can choose a category for the posts all to go into if you want. Then look up its ID from Manage > Categories
- Look up the ID of your blog.
- Go to Users > Your profile then go to the menu of your browser and hit view > page source, or whatever your browser says for that.
- hit <cntl><f> for find and search for primary_blog (or just play Where’s Waldo for it)
- You should see a long sentence that looks like the one below I’ve broken up for you:
<select name="primary_blog"><option value='firstidnumberisfoundhere'>http://realisingme.wordpress.com/ </option>
<option value='secondidnumberisfoundhere' selected>http://realizingme.wordpress.com/ </option> </select></td>
- Put either your first or second ID number or whatever blog number you’re looking for from the info above.
- out_cat_id is an optional thing if you want the posts to go to a specific category
- That’s it!
Now, whenever you add a link to del.icio.us or one is added by the ’subscriptions’ section of your login page, it will sit and wait for the update and then be sent right to your blog as a post. Isn’t that fanfreakintasic? You’ll have to wait until del.icio.us updates which is about every hour or so I think.
Make sure you test out your subscriptions thing before you start blogging with this method. I would do a few searches and then have it do a subscription to see if it gets you what you want, and then add the blog pushing thing to it. I keep a test blog account just for this kind of thing.
I’ve tried it a bit but I can’t get it to narrow down well enough to put stuff on this blog that I would want to read.
I’ve also looked into Blog Overdrive. They will push 60 posts per month for free. I haven’t seen how that’s helpful yet either since it just gives you a teaser for each site. What I need is some kind of quality syndication. The last thing you guys need is to come here and start getting dozens (or hundreds) of half-assed-related articles on stuff.
http://www.mahalo.com/Del.icio.us also has some great hints for del.icio.us.
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