Using RSS Feeds to write posts on your WordPress Blog.

Hello. Its been ages since I last posted. For those of you wondering why that is, all I can say is Mom , India, No Internet Access, Hospital , everything’s okay. Moving on ….

This is ridiculously Easy. Don’t worry about it too much . A site filled with some original content and RSS feed content isn’t going to have any problems.

You can do this only if you have a WordPress Blog. You don’t need one that hosted somewhere. One on WordPress.com should do.

First you need to download FeedWordPress plug in.

Click here to download FeedWordPress Plugin for wordpress

For more detailed info on the plug in itself or the makers. Visit http://feedwordpress.radgeek.com/

OR

login to your wordpress administartion area. Choose plugins and click on add new. Under the search tab in the empty field ,type feedwordpress. its the first one that turns up. install and activate the plug in. If you’re asked to Update Magpie RSS please do so.

You should now see a tab called Syndication in the administration area.

Congratulations ! You’ve successfully downloaded and activated the Plug In.

Here’s the wonderful part that not everyone knows. So we need good and useful Feeds to put on our Blog. Fret not. Finding them isn’t as hard as it sounds. These days they’re basically everywhere.

For the sake of keeping this Post short and not driving you nuts, we’re only going to discuss a few sites you can use to get RSS Feeds. You know them, you’ve already heard of them and have probably used them. Just not this way. You’ll know more than enough to do this by yourself at the end of this article on any site that provides this feature.

Example using Digg –

Digg  ( http://www.digg.com/search)

this should take you to the Digg Search Page. On the search page choose all. Search for your choice of keywords until you are happy with what you see.

What we’re going to do is save the RSS Feed of the Search result. What this does is that everytime a new result or new news item or video or article gets added to Digg, you get updated automatically.

Save the RSS feed for this search by right clicking on the orange RSS icon in the top right and click “Copy Link Location”. This link is your content specific RSS Feed.

Basically you can do this on a lot of sites. Technorati, google blog search , youtube, PRWeb, Yahoo News! etc.

We’re not done yet. So after clicking on “Copy Link Location”. Go to the Administration Area of your WordPress Blog. Click on the Syndication Tab. On the right , you should see “Add new source” . Paste the link location in the field provided and click on Syndicate. If the whole thing was successful , you should see a button saying “Use this feed” . Click on it. It should now be added under syndicated sources. Click on the box next to it and click Update Checked. You should have a few posts waiting for you.

Should you wish to review the posts before anything gets posted, click on posts under syndication. Choose the option you prefer and you should be done.

And that’s all there is to it.

Have Fun with It.

See you soon !

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