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| 1 | 1 | FeedWordPress |
| 2 | 2 | ============= |
| 3 | 3 | |
| 4 | 4 | * Author: [Charles Johnson](http://radgeek.com/contact) |
| 5 | -* Version: 0.98 | |
| 5 | +* Version: 0.981 | |
| 6 | 6 | * Project URI: <http://projects.radgeek.com/feedwordpress> |
| 7 | 7 | * License: GPL 2. See License below for copyright jots and tittles. |
| 8 | 8 | |
| 9 | 9 | Introduction |
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| 19 | 19 | [Feminist Blogs]: http://www.feministblogs.org/ |
| 20 | 20 | |
| 21 | 21 | FeedWordPress is designed with flexibility, ease of use, and ease of |
| 22 | 22 | configuration in mind. You'll need a working installation of WordPress (version |
| 23 | -[2.0][] or [1.5][]), and also FTP or SFTP access to your web host. The ability | |
| 24 | -to create cron jobs on your web host would be very helpful but it's not | |
| 23 | +[2.1][], [2.0][] or [1.5][]), and also FTP or SFTP access to your web host. The | |
| 24 | +ability to create cron jobs on your web host would be very helpful but it's not | |
| 25 | 25 | absolutely necessary. You *don't* need to tweak any plain-text configuration |
| 26 | 26 | files and you *don't* need shell access to your web host to make it work. |
| 27 | 27 | (Although, I should point out, web hosts that *don't* offer shell access are |
| 28 | 28 | *bad web hosts*.) |
| 29 | 29 | |
| 30 | + [2.1]: http://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/ella-21/ | |
| 30 | 31 | [2.0]: http://wordpress.org/development/2005/12/wp2/ |
| 31 | 32 | [1.5]: http://wordpress.org/development/2005/02/strayhorn/ |
| 32 | 33 | |
| 33 | 34 | Installation |
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| 33 | 34 | Installation |
| 34 | 35 | ------------ |
| 35 | 36 | ### Requirements ### |
| 36 | 37 | |
| 37 | -To use version 0.98 of FeedWordPress, you will need: | |
| 38 | +To use version 0.981 of FeedWordPress, you will need: | |
| 38 | 39 | |
| 39 | -1. an installed configured copy of WordPress 2.0.x or 1.5.x. (FeedWordPress | |
| 40 | - *will not work* with WP 1.2 or WP MU development builds.) | |
| 40 | +1. an installed and configured copy of WordPress 2.1, 2.0.x, or 1.5.x. | |
| 41 | + (FeedWordPress currently *will not work* with older versions of | |
| 42 | + WordPress, or with WordPress MU.) | |
| 41 | 43 | |
| 42 | 44 | 2. FTP or SFTP access to your web host |
| 43 | 45 | |
| 44 | 46 | And you'll probably also want to have either: |
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| 50 | 52 | ### Installation ### |
| 51 | 53 | |
| 52 | 54 | #### Upgrades #### |
| 53 | 55 | |
| 54 | -To *upgrade* an existing installation of FeedWordPress to version 0.98: | |
| 56 | +To *upgrade* an existing installation of FeedWordPress to version 0.981: | |
| 55 | 57 | |
| 56 | 58 | 1. Download the FeedWordPress archive in zip or gzipped tar format and |
| 57 | 59 | extract the files on your computer. Replace your existing FeedWordPress |
| 58 | - files with the new files. Be sure to upgrade `rss-functions.php` if you | |
| 59 | - use the optional MagpieRSS upgrade, or don't use it yet but do want to | |
| 60 | - syndicate Atom 1.0 feeds. | |
| 60 | + files with the new files. Be sure to upgrade `rss.php` and | |
| 61 | + `rss-functions.php` if you use the optional MagpieRSS upgrade, or don't | |
| 62 | + use it yet but do want to syndicate Atom 1.0 feeds. | |
| 61 | 63 | |
| 62 | 64 | 2. If you are upgrading from version 0.96 or earlier, **immediately** log |
| 63 | 65 | in to the WordPress Dashboard, and go to Options --> Syndicated. Follow |
| 64 | 66 | the directions to launch the database upgrade procedure. The new |
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| 87 | 89 | 1. Install `feedwordpress.php` in your WordPress `plugins` directory |
| 88 | 90 | and `update-feeds.php` in your WordPress `wp-content` directory. |
| 89 | 91 | |
| 90 | 92 | 2. (Optional) Upgrade the copy of MagpieRSS packaged with WordPress by |
| 91 | - installing the new `rss-functions.php` (archived in | |
| 93 | + installing the new `rss.php` and `rss-functions.php` (archived in | |
| 92 | 94 | `OPTIONAL/wp-includes`) into your WordPress `wp-includes` directory. |
| 93 | 95 | Upgrading MagpieRSS is necessary if you want to take advantage of |
| 94 | 96 | support for Atom 1.0, multiple post categories, RSS enclosures, and |
| 95 | 97 | multiple character encodings. (Note, however, that support for |
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| 108 | 110 | and (2) a "secret word" for your RPC-XML updating interface. This |
| 109 | 111 | provides some light security by keeping passing ruffians from saying |
| 110 | 112 | "Update all the feeds" at will to your FeedWordPress installation. |
| 111 | 113 | |
| 112 | -5. Go to Links --> Syndicated to set up the list of sites that you want | |
| 113 | - FeedWordPress to syndicate onto your blog. (If you have the feeds you | |
| 114 | - want to aggregate in a service such as Bloglines, you may prefer to | |
| 115 | - export them to an OPML file and use WordPress's Links --> Import to | |
| 116 | - import them into the contributors category.) | |
| 114 | +5. Go to Blogroll --> Syndicated or Links --> Syndicated to set up the list | |
| 115 | + of sites that you want FeedWordPress to syndicate onto your blog. (If | |
| 116 | + you have the feeds you want to aggregate in a service such as Bloglines, | |
| 117 | + you may prefer to export them to an OPML file and use WordPress's Links | |
| 118 | + --> Import to import them into the contributors category.) | |
| 117 | 119 | |
| 118 | 120 | #### Setting Up Feed Updates #### |
| 119 | 121 | |
| 120 | 122 | FeedWordPress is now ready to accept posts from its syndication sources. |
