I recently got word from Kieran Delaney about his new Lifestreaming plugin for WordPress called Simplelife. It’s based on the Simplepie RSS parser instead of the built-in MagpieRSS one that has issues and is used by some of the other WordPress Lifestreaming plugins out there.
It’s currently an Alpha version and although I haven’t tried it yet, it appears to offer some good functionality and have a nice layout. I’m hoping that a future version will make the addition (and editing) of the feeds easier. Perhaps from the admin dashboard as opposed to having to add / edit them in a php file.
Get the Simplelife WordPress plugin here
See it in action here
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I’ve set up a modified version of this on my website and am loving it. It’s the best solution I’ve found so far for lifestreaming.
It’s not exactly a plugin, more like a WordPress page template with some script and CSS. It works, but I had to make a lot of modifications to make it work with my theme. Worth the effort, though.
@Apollo, very nice implementation.
@Michael, tru, tru, but better than the older plugins I’ve tried in the past. btw, you are truly a gifted photographer.
Thansk for the tip!
However: I couln’t get Simplelife configured right.
So I thought:
– What makes a lifestream “sustainable”? If every entry in the lifestream would be a blogpost in wordpress, my stream is as sustainable as wordpress. Making it possible in the future to migrate or upgrade to whatever WordPress is developing.
– What can aggregate my content from over the web to wordpress? I started with wp-o-matic, but moved to “FeedWordpress” from Charles Johnson. Which pulls in my feeds from delicious, lastfm, twitter etc.
– A normal blogpost doesn’t look like a lifestream. So I just show the title of the posting.
– I use the new CategoryIcon from Ivan Georgiev. To show a nice icon at every post.
You can see it at work: wwww.joeldebruijn.nl
(yes, with 4 w’s: where, when, what, who…)
Keep up the good work!
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