One of the other changes I made to the King Design web site recently is the addition of selected content from this blog in various places.
At the moment, I’m pulling in recent posts in my Tasks Pro™ category into the sidebars of the Tasks Pro™, Tasks™ and Tasks Jr. pages, and the recent posts in the Case Studies category (recently added) into the Development page.
This is a nice way to both leverage my content here and keep the content on the King Design site from getting stale.
I’m using SimplePie (specifically their WordPress plugin) to do this. The SimplePie folks have an aptly named product - it’s pretty darn easy to use. Definitely recommended for quick and dirty integrations like this.
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Scott T. adds this Comment:
I’ll give SimplePie a ++. I’m using it in a couple of places to great effect. If only it supported media RSS and iTunes standards…
January 20th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Geoffrey Sneddon adds this Comment:
Woah. A mention on a blog I actually read!
Scott, I’d question whether they were “standards”. Heck, you can make a good case that RSS isn’t a standard either. You’ll be able to get at any element once 1.0 RC 1 comes out (possibly in 1.0 Beta 4, depending when I have the time to code it).
January 21st, 2007 at 4:05 am
Alex adds this Comment:
I agree, media RSS and iTunes are extensions to RSS - not standards. However, this is the beauty of Open Source: if supporting those extensions is important to you, you can make it happen rather easily.
Thanks for the great work Geoffrey (and Ryan).
January 21st, 2007 at 10:05 am