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SUP WordPress?

I came across a quick post from Benjamin Golub in his blog about SUP (no Wikipedia page yet, anyone want to write one?), a protocol developed by FriendFeed and described in their blog. 

Benjamin created a small YouTube video showing how SUP works.

Benjamin Golub demonstrates SUP

 

So naturally, I now have a bit of SUP-envy, since I run a WordPress blog and not my own home made cloud-based blog platform like Ben.  Which means my next step was to perform a Google search for ‘WordPress’ and ‘SUP’.  To my great surprise, a small SUP plugin has already been written!

Enter WP SUP, a small plugin that does exactly what’s necessary, which is to say add a bit of code to the RSS feed to make it SUP-enabled, and ping FriendFeed when the feed is updated.

Done and done.  Thanks Derek van Vliet!  Everybody go friend him immediately on FriendFeed.  Thanks!

WP SUP home page

Update: Feedburner seems to be stripping the SUP information out of the RSS feed header.  I’m looking in to it, along with Josh Haley and Benjamin Golub

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  • http://neothoughts.com Derek van Vliet

    Thanks for the shout out, Phil. Let me know if you run into any problems with the plugin.

  • http://www.scribkin.com Phil Glockner

    Well, I can tell you that the SUP headers doesn't seem to be in my RSS feed yet, and FriendFeed apparently didn't get a ping (or did nothing if it was pinged) because the post didn't show up until I manually refreshed the feed.

    I was going to give it until I blogged again to see if it still fails.. unless you have some pointers for me?

  • http://neothoughts.com Derek van Vliet

    That may be because you're using FeedBurner. It looks like the changes to your feed don't carry through to FB feeds. I will look into what we can do about that.

  • http://www.scribkin.com Phil Glockner

    Ahhh… I was afraid of that. I can tell you that the MediaRSS WP plugin adds those extensions to my feed and seems to work OK with FeedBurner. But I guess that may be on a per-post basis instead of in the feed header.

  • http://www.benjamingolub.com/ Benjamin Golub

    FeedBurner is definitely stripping the SUP link/header: http://friendfeed.com/api/feed.....//f…

  • http://friendfeed.com/eng1ne Phil Glockner For Hire

    Added to entry: “Update: Feedburner seems to be stripping the SUP information out of the RSS feed header. ” — This is listed as a known issue on the SUP plugin home page now.

  • http://friendfeed.com/bwana Bwana

    As crap. I hate that I've moved to feedburner now

  • http://friendfeed.com/dpritchett Daniel J. Pritchett

    I just click the refresh button every time I post to WP. Considering I post 1-4 times a week an am on FF daily it's not a headache for me.

  • http://friendfeed.com/eng1ne Phil Glockner For Hire

    Mark, that's a very cool idea, I would love to see a capability like that, for a quick & easy pseudo real-time stream.

  • http://friendfeed.com/eng1ne Phil Glockner For Hire

    Daniel – Admittedly, it's not that important for my blog either, since I update, oh, less than once a week? I did briefly consider dropping feedburner but decided that would probably force too many people to re-subscribe. So I'll keep hoping/poking around to a feedburner solution or workaround.

  • http://friendfeed.com/irwebreport Dominic/IRWebReport

    Solving the latency “problem” of RSS is a big deal for me on a professional level. One minute is better than the current PR newswire distribution methods for Regulation Fair Disclosure compliance. If you're interested in this, check my post Why almost no one is complying with Reg. FD. http://www.irwebreport.com/dai.....why… And Tim Bray explains the technical issues around RSS and Reg. FD here: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/W.....10/…

  • http://friendfeed.com/jauderho Jauder Ho

    I just opened a suggestion on GetSatisfaction. Vote there when you get a chance. http://getsatisfaction.com/fee...../en…

  • http://friendfeed.com/eng1ne Phil Glockner For Hire

    Thanks Jauder! I definitely will!

  • http://friendfeed.com/jauderho Jauder Ho

    I also put in a request for Tumblr to support SUP. http://getsatisfaction.com/tum....._su…