It used to contain my test of the Guardian news feed WordPress plugin.
De-activating the plugin disables all the articles connected to it, as shown here, changes the title of your post, removes the tags, all the content (not just the feed content, but whatever you had to say about it, too) and the extract.
I wasn’t thrilled about the amount of control it was exercising on my blog’s content in the first place: dictating the title of the post, the tags and the excerpt. It also reverted these when I tried to change them. So I disabled it, whereupon it’s added insult to injury.
So, nice idea. Horrible in practice. Sorry.
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Couldn’t get it to work on my wordpress site.
It keeps getting a fatal error, I have a feeling it’s because I was the thirteenth person to download the add-on and the fact I was using a pre 3 version of WordPress, c’est la vie
marcus
LOL — it still feels a bit like that, though I obviously had a bit more success than you. The API key sign up implies that someone is going to personally approve your key — something that can’t scale too well.
Hello,
I’m the author of the plugin and I really appreciate your feedback on it.
The navigation issues you saw there are due to a very large ‘thumbnail’, almost every single thumbnail is 140 x 90 so usually you wont see such a mess. This is something that will be seen to.
Also you will need to update to the latest version of WordPress plugin, version 0.2 which contains a very important bug fix, and you might possibly have to re-do this article of which I apologise immensely.
Remember this is a beta 0.1/0.2 version so it will improve a lot, also I can only comment technically on this rather than the wider scheme of things.
Thank you for your comments and I hope you use it in the future.
Daniel
Hi Daniel — thank you so much for dropping by and commenting. I guess we’re both waiting for the WordPress approvals process to take its course.
Very much look forward to v0.2. And thereafter.
But surely, going forward, display of the article shouldn’t be dependent on having the plugin activated and up-to-date, should it?
yikes– updating the plug-in automatically changed the title of the post to the title of the story quoted.
don’t like that.
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