Custom rss feeds
I’m working on setting up this wp blog to manage the blog and to act as a CMS for a flash site. I have a Category Visibility plugin that hides website posts and only shows blog entries in the blog. For the non-blog posts I’m adding some custom fields that will be used to link to assets. I can then expose these categories to the flash site via rss.
Blog posts:
http://blog.robshearing.com/wp-rss2.php
or
http://blog.robshearing.com/feed
or
http://blog.robshearing.com/?feed=rss2
Actionscript experiments feed:
http://blog.robshearing.com/wp-rss2.php?cat=8
Work feed:
http://blog.robshearing.com/wp-rss2.php?cat=7
I am however finding flaws in this model. The problem is twofold - dealing with those custom fields and making my life easier when I parse the data in flash. I’m thinking of either adding the meta data to the rss feeds, making a custom feed, or make a bespoke JSON feed. I don’t want to add meta to the rss as it may start to break the feeds compliance, also I don’t want no trouble if I upgade WordPress. Making a custon rss fleed is boring, so I’m going to attempt to build a bespoke JSON feed…
