This (potentially) will be a listing of 15 links which will be located at the bottom of this page, next to the previous 15 (get it, get it). The functionality is running on my offline site, well…just about running…
The future 15 will be compiled from a set of rss feeds, generated on other sites by me. The RSSindication plugin gives me the ability to display an RSS feed on the page, this is the simple part. The plugin also offers the functionality to combine one or more feeds into the single display.
What it doesn’t do (yet) is sort that combined list, it just combines them sequentially. This isn’t much use when you only have 15 slots to be used, as they simply end up as just the first feed’s content.
What needs to be done here is that the items in the feed must be sorted by the date they were added. This is one of those things that is real simple in concept, but usually turns out to be a pain in the ass once I look at the script which needs editing…
[5 minutes later]
Even worse, I just had a brief scan of the code and it looks like it is supposed to be doing that already (makes sense, i guess)…except it doesn’t appear to work.
Assuming that gets fixed, I would be adding my diggs and stumbles as well as my del.ici.us inbox (although I *technically* have little control over what is displayed there).
[15 minutes later]
This may make little sense to most, but as I am writing this in a typically unfocussed way I am also looking into the problem. It would seem it isn’t a script problem at all, simply the fact that only digg actually has the right tags in the rss feed to do this properly, stumbleupon has one date for the whole feed while del.icio.us has a different format date. I guess the rss standard isn’t quite as standard as i thought…time to come up with a ‘plan b’