cpjolicoeur

FeedCache Pipes will retrieve, cache and store locally a list of RSS feeds that you can then display on your WP site. This prevents multiple HTTP requests with each page load since the feeds can be read from the cache file.
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>Ruby</li>
<li>CRON access</li>
</ul>
<h3>Upgrading</h3>
<ol>
<li>
Deactivate the previous version of FeedCache Pipes through your WordPress plugins menu
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<li>
Upload the new feedcache-cron.rb, feedcache-pipes.php and complete lib/ directory files to your existing feedcache-pipes directory. You do not need to overwrite your existing files/ directory or the fcpipes-config.yml file.
</li>
<li>
Activate the newly uploaded plugin.
<ul>
<li>Go to Settings -> FeedCache Pipes and update your FeedCache Pipes settings (click update even if you haven’t made changes)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Enter the correct FCPIPES_DIR variable in the feedcache-cron.rb script
<ul>
<li>update your MYSQL_SOCKET setting as well if the MySQL socket on your server is not the default (/tmp/mysql.sock)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>

FeedCache Pipes

Caches RSS Feeds for display on your WP sidebar. A list of RSS urls can be entered and the feeds will be aggregated into one list ordered by date.

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Extended Options manages certain meta data and content add-ins from within the WordPress dashboard. This plugin adds the capacity for meta data and content added to the footer and <code>head</code> areas to be kept consistent regardless of a theme change or upgrade.
Extended Options is for WordPress 2.6.x and, more specifically, manages following meta links and tweaks:
<ul>
<li>Archive meta links</li>
<li>Relationship meta links</li>
<li>Favicon meta links (blog and dashboard)</li>
<li>OpenID meta links</li>
<li>MicroID meta links</li>
<li>Geo tag meta links</li>
<li>Robots meta links</li>
<li>Enabling/disabling author archives</li>
<li>Enabling/disabling 404 headers</li>
<li>Enforcing <code>www.</code> preference</li>
<li>Protocol discovery meta links (Atom, RSD, WLW)</li>
<li>Enabling/disabled generator meta link</li>
<li>General meta add-in content</li>
<li>General comment form add-in content</li>
<li>General footer add-in content</li>
</ul>
While this collection of meta data and tweaks appear random, these are specific modifications I grew tired of making whenever I activated a different theme or upgraded an old one. I needed a plugin to manage these needs that didn’t overlap significantly with other plugins I used.
Special thanks to some awesome code integrated (and possibly modified) with Extended Options.
<ul>
<li><a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2008/03/30/comment-license-12" title="Comment License 1.2" rel="nofollow ugc">Comment License</a> by Alex King</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/enforce-www-preference/" title="Enforce www preference plugin" rel="ugc">Enforce www Preference</a> by Mark Jaquith</li>
</ul>
Thanks to those fellows for providing excellent plugins to the community.
<h3>Use</h3>
Access the Extended Options menu from Dashboard > Settings > Extended to set the plugin options. To use this plugin, you do not need to edit any theme files or WordPress core files.
Everything this plugin does happens based on settings in the Extended menu. Extended Options does require, however, the following hooks/actions to be present in the certain files of your active theme.
<ul>
<li><code>wp_head()</code> should be present in your <code>header.php</code> theme file.</li>
<li><code>wp_footer()</code> should be present in your <code>footer.php</code> theme file.</li>
<li><code>do_action( 'comment_form', $post->ID )</code> should be present in your <code>comments.php</code> theme file.</li>
</ul>
If your theme files are missing these, please contact the theme author and ask him or her nicely to correct these omissions.
<h3>License</h3>
Extended Options, a plugin for WordPress, (C) 2008 by Scott Allan Wallick, is licensed under the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html" title="GNU General Public License" rel="nofollow ugc">GNU General Public License</a>.
Extended Options is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Extended Options is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Extended Options. If not, see <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/" title="GNU General Public Licenses" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/</a>.

Extended Options

Extended Options keeps meta data and certain WordPress tweaks persistent regardless of the active theme without editing any theme files.

FeedCache Pipes vs Extended Options