You may have noticed that I’ve recently been making use of this blogs XML feed to a) display links/descriptions to my three most recent posts on the akamarketing.com homepage and b) display links to my ten most recent posts in the left navigation bar of most of my sites pages. This was done to try and funnel more site visitors to the blog because that’s where I’m doing most of my updates and although it’s early days it seems to be working.
It’s actually quite easy to do, I basically just parsed the standard Wordpress XML feed with DOMXML and then outputted the specific information I needed. The code for generating links to my last ten posts I used on the left nav bar is available at: http://www.akamarketing.com/wordpress-links.php.txt with the running version at http://www.akamarketing.com/wordpress-links.php
By examining the structure of a Wordpress feed (mine is located at http://www.akamarketing.com/blog/feed) you’ll see that the details of each post is stored in the item element. By getting and looping through all the item elements it is possible to access specific information such as post link, title and description. In this case I’ve used the description information for the title attribute of the link meaning that when someone mouses over a certain link a snippet from the corresponding post will appear on screen.
Feel free to use my code, check if you have DOMXML support first of course.
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