With multiple websites devoted to certain topics, I was looking for something like the croissanga plug-in that would automatically link to posts from other locations in one place. Tumblr has that capability, however, doesn’t have comments nor the flexibility of a self-hosted site.
I found a great Wordpress plug-in called FeedWordPress that allows you to import other RSS feed items as posts into Wordpress. It even has the option to turn comments off so that comments can accumulate in their original location. However, I found that my theme was displaying “Comments Off” for that setting so I modified the index.php so that it would be more descriptive to visitors (43 is the category ID for my posts imported via FeedWordPress):
I also appended the blog title to the post titles (in feedwordpress.php): And imported excerpts instead of the full content with a link to read the original (in feedwordpress.php): There’s probably a more elegant way to do this especially hooking it into the plug-in for the first edit.
<?php if (!in_category('43')) {
comments_popup_link('No Comments Yet»', '1 Comment', '% Comments »');
}
else { ?>
<a target="_blank" href="<?php the_permalink() ?>#comments">Comments Located Elsewhere»
<?php } ?>
$this->post['post_title'] = $this->item['title'].’ @ ‘.$this->feed->channel['title'];
$this->post['post_content'] = strip_tags($excerpt).’<br><a target=”_blank” href=”‘.$this->item['link'].’”
>[Read original →]</a>’;
Thanks for the tip! I’m going to steal your idea and use this to get one of my nascent domains going!