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Global Author Posts Feed

Provides a global feed of posts from a single author made across multiple sites on your network

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So, you’ve got users who are posting to multiple different sites on your WordPress Multisite or BuddyPress network?

And you want a way to be able to catch all posts – just by that user – in one feed… regardless of what site they are posted on.

Well, that’s exactly what this plugin provides you with, a feed just for a selected author that combines all their posts into one big RSS job.

Check this out!

It’s really straightforward too – with no pesky options to worry about – once it’s installed just modify the feed URL with the users ID like so:

http://yourdomain.tld/wp-content/recent-global-author-posts-feed.php?author=USERID

So, if your user ID is #2 then the feed url for that user will be:

http://yourdomain.tld/wp-content/recent-global-author-posts-feed.php?author=2

And how would you use it?

Here’s just some examples:

  • Using a theme like WPMU-Dixi which pulls RSS feed onto it’s homepage,
  • By adding it to a 3rd Party RSS feed widget in the side bar
  • Alternatively readers can subscribe to it using feed readers such as Google Reader

Neato! Huh?

 

Usage

For help with installing plugins please refer to our Plugin installation guide.

To install:

1.  Install the Post Indexer

  • The Post Indexer is designed to index posts from the time it is installed on your site and needs to be installed for the tag feed plugin to work.
  • The Post Indexer can’t index posts that were published prior to being installed. i.e. tags and categories published on posts prior to it being installed won’t display in your tag feed.

2. Download the Global Author Posts Feed file.

3. Unzip the file into a folder on your hard drive.

4. Upload recent-global-author-posts-feed.php to /wp-content/

  • Most plugins are uploaded to /wp-content/plugins/.
  • This plugin MUST be uploaded to /wp-content/ using FTP.
  • Refer to our FTP guide if you are new to using FTP.

5. Once installed your new feed is created at:

http://yourdomain.tld/wp-content/recent-global-author-posts-feed.php?author=USERID

To Use

1.  Locate the user’s ID by hovering your mouse over their username in Users > Users in the network admin dashboard

  • their user ID displays in the status bar of your web browser

2.  Your feed URL for each user is located at:

http://yourdomain.tld/wp-content/recent-global-author-posts-feed.php?author=USERID

3.  The user feed URL can be added to a site in numerous ways including:

  • A theme like WPMU-Dixi which pulls RSS feed onto it’s homepage,
  • 3rd Party RSS feed widgets in the site side bar
  • Alternatively readers can subscribe to it using feed readers such as Google Reader

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