WordPress ‘How To’ Harvest ONet Posts
December 29th, 2005
Hi Doug,
To do this Big Bang harvesting, we simply went to our Profile page and for sections like ‘Recent discussion posts and comments’ clicked on a ‘Comment’ link to zero in on a past post. We then click the timestamp link on the target post to get that post in a ’solo post’ view that contains the post timestamp, the link to use for the ONet Source link-back, and the post itself.
We then simply do a click-drag to copy this whole post, then paste it into the WYSIWYG editor in WordPress. We then click the HTML button on the WordPress editor to pop open the HTML source for the post where we select and cut the source link.
We then close the source dialog by pressing the Update button, and do a ‘Save and keep editing’ save on the post so we can add a custom field. We then select the ‘ONet Source’ custom field name and paste in the link we just grabbed. We click checkboxes to assign categories, and if needed, we edit the timestamp and save/publish the post.
This sounds like a lot but it is very fast and easy once you do it a few times.
We are going to look into creating a WordPress module or maybe better yet an independent utility that could use a CURL session to do a server-to-server harvest of posts programmatically. This would be especially helpful to Big Bang populate blogs for folks that want to start an ONet blog like we did at Sohodojo. But once you have your backlog posted, it is really no big chore to follow up an ONet post with a blog repost.
–Sohodojo Jim and Timlynn–
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WordPress ‘How To’ Harvest ONet Posts
December 29th, 2005
Hi Doug,
To do this Big Bang harvesting, we simply went to our Profile page and for sections like ‘Recent discussion posts and comments’ clicked on a ‘Comment’ link to zero in on a past post. We then click the timestamp link on the target post to get that post in a ’solo post’ view that contains the post timestamp, the link to use for the ONet Source link-back, and the post itself.
We then simply do a click-drag to copy this whole post, then paste it into the WYSIWYG editor in WordPress. We then click the HTML button on the WordPress editor to pop open the HTML source for the post where we select and cut the source link.
We then close the source dialog by pressing the Update button, and do a ‘Save and keep editing’ save on the post so we can add a custom field. We then select the ‘ONet Source’ custom field name and paste in the link we just grabbed. We click checkboxes to assign categories, and if needed, we edit the timestamp and save/publish the post.
This sounds like a lot but it is very fast and easy once you do it a few times.
We are going to look into creating a WordPress module or maybe better yet an independent utility that could use a CURL session to do a server-to-server harvest of posts programmatically. This would be especially helpful to Big Bang populate blogs for folks that want to start an ONet blog like we did at Sohodojo. But once you have your backlog posted, it is really no big chore to follow up an ONet post with a blog repost.
–Sohodojo Jim and Timlynn–
Entry Filed under: Tech Talk, Various Other
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