{"id":871,"date":"2008-10-03T16:45:58","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T15:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/2008\/10\/03\/871\/"},"modified":"2008-10-03T16:45:58","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T15:45:58","slug":"what-others-are-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/what-others-are-saying\/","title":{"rendered":"What others are saying"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/arimoore\/2072102294\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2220\/2072102294_258172f4c4_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/arimoore\/2072102294\/\">my notes taken&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/arimoore\/\">arimoore<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>You might have noticed that I&#8217;ve added a new feature in the top right corner of my blog: <i>What others are saying.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s using the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/what-others-are-saying\/\">homonymous WordPress extension<\/a>, but I had to make a couple of modifications.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, I wanted the most recent postings, whatever their source, not just one per blog, so I needed to comment out a <tt>break<\/tt>, but this was easy as it was already explained in the source code (but I think it should have been an option so that you wouldn&#8217;t have to mess around with the source code).<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, for some bizarre reason it would at first only read the feeds for Phyllis and Dougie&#8217;s blogs, not for any other sites.  I spent several hours last night trying to find the bug, but to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>Today I found <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/164761\">a solution<\/a>: It turns out the RSS reader module included with WordPress is out of date, but one can get an updated version out of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/feedwordpress\/\">FeedWordPress<\/a> extension.<\/p>\n<p>Thirdly, I needed to add some code to downcase Phyllis&#8217;s feed to make it match the rest.<\/p>\n<p>Now I just need to convince <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phon.ucl.ac.uk\/home\/wells\/blog.htm\">John Wells<\/a> to fix his feed. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my notes taken&#8230; Originally uploaded by arimoore You might have noticed that I&#8217;ve added a new feature in the top right corner of my blog: What others are saying. It&#8217;s using the homonymous WordPress extension, but I had to make a couple of modifications. First of all, I wanted the most recent postings, whatever their source, not just one per blog, so I needed to comment out a break, but this was easy as it was already explained in the source code (but I think it should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,159,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-en","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}