Pull And Display Posts From Other Sites Part 2
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This is the second in a two part series how to bring in content from another web site or blog into a second blog/site. This is a great way to keep things looking fresh when building a hub site or hub-page. One thing that slipped my mind when writing the first part is the disclaimer so I am putting this up high and foremost.
Please, do not use these methods to create splogs (spam blogs). You’ve seen them before, blogs/web sites set up with zero original content but filled with tons of OPC (Other people’s content) without their permission. I don’t care if you only use excerpts of OPC and link back to them or not. It’s such a bad idea – unless of course you have explicit permission from the original content provider. I sometimes call these sites soul-less because they really have no living or breathing soul who writes good content there some of them aren’t even monitored and more importantly, people don’t stay there. These are outlined here so that people who genuinely want to build a hub page for their own sites can benefit. While I can’t tell you what to do, I do sincerely hope you won’t and I’m getting off my soap box.
The method we will be exploring today is using CaRP – no, CaRP is not a fish although the script is named after the fish. This is a small script that converts RSS into HTML for display. The beauty of using CaRP is you don’t need WordPress or any other CMS or blogging script. Which means you can create your hub page using good old fashioned static HTML. You will however need to have a web host that runs PHP and honestly, that’s so standard these days, if yours doesn’t, you should leave them and go here instead.
How:
You install CaRP onto your web host, if successful, it will generate some coding that you can use to display the information on your page. Yes, it works on a WordPress powered site, just use the code in your theme. Very easy. Do know that you must have RSS feeds from the source site.
Plugin Alternatives:
If you don’t like to get messy with scripts, and you are using WordPress for your hub site, you can also use one of these plugins.
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