The Great Syndication Debacle

Wow, everyone. Let me apologize for what can only be described as a disaster. Apparently, you were all deluged with random articles flying through your RSS feed. I’m sorry, they’re gone now.

Lemme ‘splain.

So, I grabbed a fully functional and supposedly stable syndication plugin to use as an initial concept proof. I went live with it on Positively Glorious! because, well, it was supposed to be fully functional and rock solid. It was supposed to do a number of other things that were the reason I’d chosen it. It was supposed to do things like:

1. Make all syndicated posts link back to the original site (Fail)
2. Make all syndicated posts dump to one single category that can be selectively excluded (Fail)
3. Keep syndicated posts off the front page (Fail)
4. Keep syndicated posts out of the RSS feed (Fail)

Well, it failed on all counts, thus making people angry at the fact that they have a dozen posts dumped into their feed that have nothing to do with cyborgs, 80′s movie characters or secret agents. I’m sorry Jon!

Okay, I will trust no plugin before it’s time. Before I put them on the front page, I’ll test them at an undisclosed location far out in the desert somewhere in the vicinity of St. George, Utah. Then I’ll strip out the algorithms and concept that I like, write my own plugin, widgetize it, anesthetize it, tissue type it, amputate its leg and run away with it.

Only then will I subject you all to further testing.

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