David Little

I’ve had a bit of time to tidy up my site over Christmas. Not just in terms of the design, but I’ve also given some thought to how I manage my content feeds. As I’ve recently been blogging about my work with Plone theming, I got my site listed on Planet Plone. This aggregates posts from Plone-related blogs on one site. However, I don’t just blog about Plone but pretty much whatever I feel like at the time. This causes a bit of a problem in that I could be sending non-Plone noise over to Planet Plone which isn’t ideal. The odd post isn’t too much of a problem — in fact in can be interesting to see what other Plone people are up to on their days off from Plone. However, I’ve got a number of non-Plone posts planned for next year so it could get potentially quite annoying and distracting.

I tried setting up a redirect from my main Wordpress feed so it pointed to the Plone-specific feed but I couldn’t get this to work for some reason (maybe to do with the limitations of my through the web redirect editor, maybe something to do with the “virtual” directory structure in Wordpress). However, I came across this Wordpress plugin which seems to have done the job very well: Redirection by Urban Giraffe. This has a good range of functions to support redirecting, including the ability to match on regular expressions.

For now I’ve set my main site feed to point to the Plone category and will work on creating another feed for all other stuff. I’ll keep my eye on Planet Plone — if this post comes through then it’s back to the drawing board. If so, I’m open to other suggestions on how to sort this out!

As an addendum, I’ve just checked the Planet Plone site and my blog’s RSS feed is already listed as pointing to my Plone and Zope categories, so I’m not sure why it’s picking up non-Plone stuff.