The Pirate Ship Sets Sail

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The Pirate Ship Sets Sail

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[PeterBrett]

It would be nice to be able to get an RSS feed for The Pirate Ship.

[Sharkz]

Added my blog's feed with the tag "PPUK", Only had one post with that tag so far but I have some new Pirate Party UK posts planned soon

[barton71]

Can someone maybe post a guide to adding your blog? I am not sure how to add my blog (Feed URL, RSS/ATOM format?) or how to only make posts with certain tags appear on the blog. Thanks.

[glambert]

It would be nice to be able to get an RSS feed for The Pirate Ship.

This.

Would also like to know how I get my blog hooked up. Would give me added incentive to take time out from my busy life and post a blog every now and then.

[Sharkz]

Can someone maybe post a guide to adding your blog? I am not sure how to add my blog (Feed URL, RSS/ATOM format?) or how to only make posts with certain tags appear on the blog. Thanks.

-Vague Wordpress Guide-

(Might work for other Blogs, idk)

Change the bits in Bold accordingly.

If you just want the feed, use:
http://yoursite.com/feed/

If you want a tag feed you need:
http://yoursite.com/tag/yourtag/feed/

If you want a category feed you need:
http://yoursite.com/category/yourcategory/feed/

Hopefully that works, not tested it yet but it should do. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, I'm pretty new to this stuff

[Tom]

It would be nice to be able to get an RSS feed for The Pirate Ship.

Pirate Ship RSS feed.

[PeterBrett]

It would be nice to be able to get an RSS feed for The Pirate Ship.

Pirate Ship RSS feed.

Woo, that's great. Unfortunately the feed still has the crowsnest.pirateparty.org.uk as the homepage address.

Now, another annoying request: in the feed, is it possible to add some way of identifying which blog each post was originally from? Other sites do that by putting something like "<username>: <post title>" in the RSS title field.

This is cool, I like it!

[borgs8472]

Is the scope of the pirate ship only member blogs? What about submissions from existing news sites, similar to how we use the news forum currently?

Also I would say it is in dire need of right hand sidebar splitting by dates, tags, search function and similar bells and whistles.

[PeterBrett]

Is the scope of the pirate ship only member blogs?

Yes.

Of course, you're always welcome to write a blog post about an interesting news story that's come your way with some nice commentary and some links to related coverage.

[borgs8472]

More feedback, not all blogs RSS are dropping a 'comment' link at the bottom of their posts, forcing you to scroll up to the top of a potentially long article to visit its source if you want to make a comment. Could the template simply drop in a 'view origonal post' link linking to the same title link at the bottom of the posts?

[PeterBrett]

More feedback, not all blogs RSS are dropping a 'comment' link at the bottom of their posts, forcing you to scroll up to the top of a potentially long article to visit its source if you want to make a comment. Could the template simply drop in a 'view origonal post' link linking to the same title link at the bottom of the posts?

Not a bad idea, but don't most RSS readers scroll to the top of the current article when you hit the 'Home' key?

[borgs8472]

I don't know, I don't use one. I'm saying on the pirate ship default web interface it could use that feature.

[azrael]

Shouldn't be difficult, I could add this to the template if you want Peter?

[PeterBrett]

Sure, why not. *shrug* Maybe make it reasonably unobtrusive (right aligned in the central column)?

[epriezka]

we would hope the majority of posts would remain on the topics of the Pirate Parties and relevant political issues

Well, those hopes have been dashed already. Now that we're seeing the ship is already veering off course, is somebody going to take hold of the rudder?

[rancidpunk]

I don't really think it's such a problem about it being off topic, if it was soley related to pirate stuff it could/should be posted on the party home page (it is a bit stagnant atm). I like finding out more about what pirates think about off topic stuff that they can't say on the forums.

[epriezka]

I don't really think it's such a problem about it being off topic, if it was soley related to pirate stuff it could/should be posted on the party home page (it is a bit stagnant atm). I like finding out more about what pirates think about off topic stuff that they can't say on the forums.

Fair enough. I'm just extrapolating that if non-pirate stuff has grown to 50% of content already, then the ratio of non-pirate stuff is likely to keep on growing and become dominant. If most of the content is non-pirate, then people won't bother reading it for the pirate content. Wouldn't that defeat the point?

[azrael]

depends whether you view it as a platform for members to collaborate and deliver a pirate message to the public, or a place for members to share their view (both pirate and non-pirate) with other members

[epriezka]

depends whether you view it as a platform for members to collaborate and deliver a pirate message to the public, or a place for members to share their view (both pirate and non-pirate) with other members

I thought it was the former.

If it's not the former, there's no point getting upset about it, so I'm not going to. But let's clarify if it's not meant to serve the former mission because we do need something that tries to talk to the public. The few pirates we have won't be successful if they only talk to each other. Talking to the public is the big challenge.