[wp-hackers] Planet generator

[Callum Macdonald]

Planet requires python, that's my main reason for not using it. Agreed, 
WP is pretty bloated just to run a planet, there's probably a simpler 
option available in PHP. This seems like the least hassle though. Cheers 
- Callum.

PS> The list mailer seems to be iffy today, I had a couple of messages 
knocked back earlier.

Computer Guru wrote:
>  Just my two cents, but what's the benefit of using WP as a Planet?
>
> The way I see it, if you're using it as a Planet it can't be used as
> anything else. If a piece of highly-specialized code that does just one
> thing (Planet) and does it right and light does the job, what would the
> benefit be of using something not built for that purpose (WP and its "bloat"
> that comes from all the features you won't be using in a Planet) instead?
>
> (apologies if this message already came through, the list mailer crapped out
> on me)
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> On 10/31/07, Callum Macdonald <lists.automattic.com at callum-macdonald.com>
> wrote:
>   
>> PHP Planet is more than just a front page, there's over 8'300 articles
>> on there[1]. There's no "Single" view though, you only see a list of
>> posts.
>>
>> I reckon you could turn WP into a planet quite easily.
>>
>> 1) Insert posts automatically from feeds (either FeedWordPress[2] or
>> WP-AutoBlog[3] seem to do the trick pretty nicely)
>>
>> 2) Add a simple plugin to filter the_permalink and replace it with the
>> original post's url. This plugin could also disable pings and comments
>> just to be sure.
>>
>> 3) Possibly, for the paranoid, add a filter to automatically 301
>> redirect to the original post if the single post is requested.
>>
>> As a bonus to all of this stuff, you could use the Pages functionality
>> to display a bit of background info on the planet. Also, FeedWordPress
>> grabs it's feed URLs from the Links database, so you could easily
>> display a list of sources on the site.
>>
>> I think I'll  knock this into a single plugin over the next week or so.
>> I'll post back once I've got something working.
>>
>> Cheers - Callum.
>>
>> [1] http://www.planet-php.net/?start=8300
>> [2] http://projects.radgeek.com/feedwordpress/basic-concepts/
>> [3] http://wpmudev.org/project/wp-autoblog
>>
>> Ozh wrote:
>>     
>>> I think WP + Whatever would be totally different: a front page of
>>> posts going into an archive of post, hence a huge source of duplicated
>>> content (original posts + the planet).
>>> The planet as of now is just a front page. Basically, it's just a feed.
>>>
>>> On 10/31/07, Callum Macdonald <lists.automattic.com at callum-macdonald.com>
>>>       
>> wrote:
>>     
>>>> Planet PHP runs on a couple of PHP apps banged together. I'll get round
>>>> to implementing it at some point, but I haven't done so yet.
>>>> http://www.planet-php.net/
>>>>
>>>> They make the code available here:
>>>> http://svn.bitflux.ch/repos/public/planet-php/trunk/
>>>>
>>>> Would a combination of WP & FeedWordPress do the same job? Any issues
>>>> with it?
>>>>
>>>> As far as I know, planets don't allow comments or send pings, so I'm
>>>> guessing those aspects of WP would have to be turned off. But the
>>>> themes, searching, tagging, categories, etc would be quite nice. If the
>>>> blogroll was generated automatically that would also be a nice feature.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone interested in exploring this?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers - Callum.
>>>>
>>>> Jeremy Visser wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Does anybody know what powers the WordPress Planet at
>>>>> http://planet.wordpress.org/?
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