Monthly Archives: December 2009

Dear Edgar, in response to your lifestream questions.

I’ve recently received this message thru my contact form, now it is either a very odd spam/phishing message or Edgar made a mistake on his email address as the domain doesn’t exist. Either way I’ve been asked QU 2 before so here’s my response while I update the FAQ :)

Dear Creator of Plugin, thank you very much for your great job. I am trying to use it in web site.
i am trying to use your plugin LINICKX LifeStream v0.2 and i have 2 questions.
1. I inserted 23 URL of Feeds but plugin loading only 3 of them, why?
2. Could I load also content of posts, if yes than how?
great thanks!
best regards
Edgar

Actually Edgar I’ve only tested with about 5 feeds, so I will load up my test site and see what happens, it could be possible that your feed 4 is corrupt and blocking the rest.

If you wish to create posts from feeds see FeedWordPress by Charles Johnson, I was planning to include this functionality but issues mean that now I’m not bothering, see line L236 of run.php, feel free to submit a patch if you can fix it.

Festive Regards,

LINICKX LifeStream V0.2

Screen-shot of config screen

Screen-shot of config screen

UPDATE: This Plugin has been updated, the below links to the new file, but please comment on the new post, thanks.

Version 0.2 is the first feature update to my LINICKX Lifestream plug-in. This version incorporates all the minor bug fixes from version 0.1 -> 0.1.3 and includes what I call my “Troubleshooting Feature Pack”.

Version 0.1.x was plagued by a hidden multi-post issue, so not only is this fixed in V0.2, but I’ve included the tools used by myself to fix the issue. If you’ve been effected by this, use the factory reset option to clear out the lifestream plug-in, the next time it runs new posts will be created of all your feeds… so yes you will get double posts… but that will then be the last time it happens! :)

Plug-in Features:

  • Admin Feature Pack (NEW)
    Verbose Cron Mode, now you can see what the plug-in is doing!
    View the contents of the Lifestream Feed DB
    View the URLS, Tags & Categories stored in the plugin
    Factory Reset, remove all the settings without having to uninstall -> re-install
  • Stream Any Feed.
    Most internet services like digg, twitter, lastfm and the like support RSS feeds of your activity, so you can stream any service even if I haven’t heard about it yet!
  • Posts are created from the feeds/stream.
    Each Feed item creates a new post, you can tag & categorise your posts to give each stream a different look & feel in your WordPress templates.
  • No dependencies.
    LINICKX LifeStream uses WordPress functions to do it’s work, so yes it’ll work on PHP4 & PHP5 and you don’t need to update simplepie or an-other dependancy.
  • Flexible updating.
    By default LINICKX LifeStream should just work, WordPress will fetch the feeds every 5 minutes and store them in the WP Database, but you can change that. If you want to cron your updates every 1 minute you can, if you want the DB store in a file not in MySQL that’s not a problem either.

Bug Fixes

  • Version 0.2 Multi-Post issue – http://wordpress.org/support/topic/330243
  • Pushed Version 0.1.3 more bug fixes; 0.1.2 broke auto updates, so 0.1.3 fixes it again!
    linickx.com was having execution timeout issues, so theres a patch to fix that for other users
    I’ve also introduced a config.php so that upgrades do not overwrite $WPDIR set by users.
  • Pushed version 0.1.2 to fix error in dashboard reported by Markus .
  • Pushed version 0.1.1 as the directory path changed when wordpress.org created their .zip file… all should be working again.

Right now on LINICKX.com this plugin is streaming Digg, Google Reader and WordPress Commits… keep an eye for new things streamed such as delicious & last fm :cool:

I’m still looking for help.
If you think you can javascript/ajax the admin interface, or my plug-in WordPress MU compatible, please let me know.

Disclaimer
Plug-in development is a hobby, I have a full time job that takes priority. Feel free to leave comments on this post but ask support questions to the WordPress community. I will update this plugin as and when I need features to improve linickx.com and will consider any patches submitted including any good ideas you have.

If you use this plug-in, please consider donating as I give this code away for free and giving something back is good for your kama :cool: