Mini-Project: Feed Reader for WordPress

This isn’t official by a long shot, but I’ve managed to get SimplePie with the Multifeeds addon to work inside of WordPress, as a sort of “LiveJournal Friends Page” clone.

Right now, it requires manual configuration, and isn’t the most complete thing, for what I want to do, but I can click on a link in my WP Admin console, and view these feeds from within WordPress.

I need to get the CSS isolated some more, and clean up the original MultiFeeds generated code, to make it display the way I’d like it to, but right now, I think it’d be something I can call “progress”.

I also would like to make a nice, clean interface that would allow a person to add up to, say, fifty feeds to the reader, and show up to one hundred (default of 30) items, threaded like you’d expect to see them on the LiveJournal Friends Page.

I did this last night, after getting frustrated with this one last test I need to take. The material was driving me nuts, so I went to take it out on that.

I’ll give that test one more try tonight, and then I’ll go back to work on my WordPress Plugin.
(Of course, I half-expect someone to pop in and say, “Justin, someone already made a plugin that does what you’re trying to do. You’re reinventing the wheel!” right about now. If you do, I won’t be mad at all, as long as it works. :))