[wp-hackers] Dashboard performance

[David Chait]

Actually, my WP CG-FeedRead plugin (also 'not dependent or restricted') has 
a feature I called 'MultiFeed' which can pull N items apiece from M feeds 
specified, and then 'intermix' results based on the GMT timestamps on the 
feed items.  (I also have a little-used and untested feature called 
'ReFeed', which will regenerate an XML/RSS simplified output for the 
multifeed..)  And unlike RSS Merge, it has its own XML parser, all in one. 
;) ;)

But, the main issue is making the dashboard easier to support alternate 
user-chosen 'data', rather than just feeds.... There's a lot of great 
information you might want to present there (think Mint, or my CG-Referrer 
stats tracker..).  Thus my proposition to think in terms of 'dashboard 
widgets'.

-d

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roy Schestowitz" <r at schestowitz.com>
To: <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 4:26 AM
Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Dashboard performance


___/ On Sun 07 May 2006 05:22:49 BST, [ Craig ] wrote : \___

> In addition, it is often brought up that people would like to choose their
> own dashboard feeds.

Yes,  this  was mentioned before in this mailing list. This can easily  be
achieved  by plugging in RSS Merge v0.2.0, which is closely-related to the
WordPress   codebase,   but  is  not  dependent  or  restricted   by   it:
http://brad.touesnard.com/aggregate/

To provide its short introduction:

,----[ Quote ]
| Typically, printing several RSS feeds from various blogs on a single page
| is known as aggregation. This script not only aggregates RSS feeds
| however, it also merges and sorts them by date using the merge sort
| algorithm. The result is a blog of postings from several blogs.
`----

Of  course,  it's also possible to use the exiting framework  and  there's
Planet  as well < http://www.planetplanet.org/ > . These tools give wider,
more  flexible real estate (in the context of screen size) and can obviate
the need for bloated desktop/Web-based RSS reader

Best wishes,

Roy

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