An Introduction: What is RSS?
RSS is used to consume media in an organized and unimaginably large quantity, making it a popular form of media delivery, despite the rumors.
Jean Galea is an investor, entrepreneur, and writer. He is the founder of WP Mayor, and the plugins WP RSS Aggregator and Spotlight. He also runs the Good Life Collective. Connect with him on X or visit jeangalea.com.
RSS is used to consume media in an organized and unimaginably large quantity, making it a popular form of media delivery, despite the rumors.
Are you a budding WordPress developer or designer and want to grow your standing within the WordPress community? There is no better way to become known than by contributing to a community. You help other people and share your knowledge, in return you will be regarded as a WordPress expert and possibly get contacted for paid gigs. Here’s your opportunity to write for WPMayor.com!
Last week I wrote a post listing some of the best year-end reviews from the WordPress community. I found them very inspirational and the perfect way to start the new year full of motivation to reach new heights in my own business.
However after we published that post we also had some people comment and say that these posts are basically an ego-booster for the people who wrote them, and can also promote envy.
This week I was a guest on the WPCast.fm podcast with Douglas Yuen. I thoroughly enjoyed talking to Doug about WP Mayor, WP RSS Aggregator, and the WordPress community. I also took the opportunity to ask him a few questions about getting started with podcasting, as we plan to start our own podcast here on WP Mayor.
The WP RSS Aggregator project is looking for translators to translate the core plugin and add-ons into several languages.
If you’re interested in doing a translation, a copy of all premium add-ons is on offer per language translated.
Did you know that content marketing is one of the most effective and cheapest ways to promote your business and garner more sales and profits?
Secondly, have you ever considered using RSS feeds to boost your content marketing strategy?
If not, read the guide to supercharging your content marketing strategy on the WP RSS Aggregator blog. Then let us know what you think.
A bit over four years ago, I launched WP Mayor as a way of recording what I’d been learning and also listing some of my favourite WordPress products.
I’m very thankful of how the site has grown during the past four years, we continue to experience growth year after year and the site is now run by three people rather than just myself. During the past months, you’ve been seeing a lot of content from Alyona and Mark, so I’m glad to officially introduce them here and thank them for all the work they’ve been doing.
Custom Post Types were one of the important innovations in WordPress 3.0. They really launched WordPress on the main stage when it comes to usage as a Content Management System (CMS). WordPress is very intuitive in the area of RSS, however it still does not generate automatic feeds for custom post types.
So how can we add Custom Post Types to our main WordPress RSS feeds?
There are a number of posts on WordPress blogs (including our own take on the GPL and potential abuse) that deal with WordPress plugin and theme licensing. Many people don’t really understand the concept of open source software, and either view it as a sure way to financial ruin or the best thing ever as there is no protection and everything is free.
It’s not so straightforward. Many websites have sprung up during the past year or two reselling WordPress plugins and themes. One of the biggest ‘victims’ are Woothemes whose add-ons for WooCommerce are now easily available from other websites for a very small fraction of the price that Woo sells them for.
Really Simple Syndication, or as we call it – RSS, is one of the easiest methods of distributing and curating tons of content, across the Internet. From the reader’s perspective it’s a matter of adding the feed URL to the RSS reader and that’s it.
For the publisher who’s using a Content Management System (CMS) like WordPress, it’s actually little or no work. The RSS feed generation and upkeep is handled internally by WordPress. All you have to do is display a RSS feed icon in your sidebar or footer or other areas in your site to let your visitors know that there’s an RSS feed there. Even that’s optional.
RSS as we all know is one of the oldest and most powerful weapons of mass content distribution for publishers and mass content consumption for readers. Launched back in 1999, RSS has seen a tremendous rise in the past decade.
Since the dawn of social media and the boom of email marketing, RSS has been taking a slow but steady turn down the river. Prominent web authorities have started (long back) to outcast RSS and shift to cooler, smarter and faster alternatives than RSS – Twitter and other forms of social media.
If you’re a commercial plugin developer, one of the things you’re bound to come across sooner or later is a refund request.
You’d do well to decide from the onset what your policy on refunds is going to be. In this post I will take a look at the 3 most popular policies that I have come across, and my thoughts on each.