[wp-hackers] RSS Not so good: Revisiting Multiple Blogs on One Site

[Meitar Moscovitz]

Advance apologies for the many successive postings.

I just realized why using an RSS feed (though incredibly useful for 
some purposes) won't work in my situation, which is why I started 
developing the multiple-WordPress-blogs class in the first place:

There is no way to easily get an entire blog's archives from an RSS 
feed. It could of course technically be done by either generating a 
huge feed, or by requesting a specific time-based feed, but afaik 
WordPress can't do that. There are also other complications. Grabbing a 
feed hits the server, and in this case both blogs I'm grabbing plus the 
site I'm making are on the same server. Getting the data from the 
database itself would be far more efficient, and its not susceptible to 
HTTP errors in getting the feed, nor to errors in parsing the feed. So, 
I'm going to go with the reliable database methods, and would still 
like to know if others are doing anything similar.

I really should have picked up on this earlier, but it's been a really 
long day (up at 3AM,  running on a blend of French Vanilla.  :).

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