Essential Word Press Plugins for Using RSS Feeds
Previously, we had posted on the Essential Plugins for Adult Blogs. In addition to those, we will be adding some posts about other plugins that have very specific uses depending on how you are going to use your blog.
Adult blogs, being commercial in nature, often times make use of sponsor provided RSS feeds. In order to import feeds into your blog, you will need a plugin to accomplish this task. In our experience, there are two reliable, maintained and updated plugins which you can use to import rss feed into your blog or splog as blogs composed entirely of rss feeds are called.
The one that we like the best is called WP-O-Matic. There are several advantages to this feed plugin. Primarily, it allows one to customize the layout of incoming feed posts and morph (changing some text on the incoming feed to avoid duplicate content penalties from Search Engines) automatically. We also find it to be somewhat more customizable in several areas and more stable.
WP-O-Matic has one downside, however, from our point of view and that is it requires the use of Firefox or Safari as your browser within Wordpress and extends that requirement to several other Word Press functions. We find that to be a downside because, as professional webmasters, we default to IE because, very simply, that is what most of our surfers use. Regardless, if we are running a pure splog, we will use this plugin as it gives us more customization in order to avoid looking like every other blog out there with the same feeds.
The other feed importer that we use, primarily on our blogs that supplement original content with feeds, is Free Word Press. This is also a good plugin and almost comparable with WP-O-Matic. We simply use it because when updating a regular blog with rss feed supplementary content, we always like to default to how the post looks in IE first.
Documentation for both of these plugins are provided on the links provided. As we have time, we will publish some additional tricks we have learned about using these two valuable plugins for adult blogs using Word Press.
