Displaying Friends’ RSS Feeds in my Dashboard

Finally, after about an hour of hair-pulling and screaming, WordPress is doing what I’ve wanted it to do: display my friends’ feeds in the dashboard. I ran into a problem the first time around and blamed it all on Google Reader, but it turned out that I was the one at fault for not clearing up my private data.

Really, how dumb can I possibly get?

Obviously, this “technique” won’t be able to display all the feed items, especially if you’re like me who’s subscribed to more than a hundred blogs and news sites. Still, it’s a bit convenient and spiffy, if only to find out the freshest blog posts in all the blogs I frequent.

Alternatively, you can use the one “reserved” for the WordPress Development Blog feed. :)

And to tell you the truth, I used to tinker with the core files just to do this. :D I know, I really am such a loser.

PS: I’m still in the process of re-subscribing to other blogs, so pardon if it seems like I’ve forgotten yours. ^_^

Displaying Friends’ RSS Feeds in my Dashboard was posted by Shari on Sunday, March 30, 2008 under Rambles & Randomsand tagged with , , . It currently has 18 responses. You can add your own, or trackback from your site.

18 Responses

  1. Sherica

    Nabasa ko nga kanina ate sa iyong twit hehehe, im glad naayos mo na siya ^^ :shakefist:

  2. Dean

    100 sites? I have four on my Mozilla FFox’s live bookmarks tab.

    -dean
    http://qwertyconfessions.co.nr

  3. Ann

    Wow, I am so out of it. I didn’t even get what the problem was and how you solved it. XD And I’ve yet to d/l an aggregator so I still go to blogs manually. I feel like a dinosaur. :eek:

  4. Ade

    Yeah, I don’t see my blog there. =P

    @ Ann - Why not use Google Reader?

  5. Jezza

    kayo po ba nag-update ng wp ko?? kung oo, maraming salamat po dahil matagal ko nang gustong mag-update kaso ang bagal ng computer ko. salamat ng marami.

    tungkol sa Feeds mo, wala akong masabi hindi ko naman naiintindihan yang google reader.

    ingat po. salamat

  6. Mihoriel

    I didn’t even know you could do with WP.
    That being said, I use bloglines but I’ve yet to subscribe to all the blogs I read. I keep forgetting to. Oops.

    I find your way nifty though. :hehe:

  7. jhay

    I nice productivity boost. :lol:

  8. Simply Precious

    Hehe, like Mihoriel, I didn’t know that you could do that with WP! Oh well, I don’t even use Feeds. =P

  9. Felisa

    Yay you! I mean, I didn’t even know that was possible!

  10. keysi

    i don’t see my blog there either. LOL
    also, you being able to do that pwns. at least you have time to tinker with code.

  11. xtina

    i dont even know what your talking about with the techy jargon but you doing a helluva job!. I love this template. :biggrin:

  12. EJAY

    hia’ im back! btw, wanna link exchange?

  13. Ems

    OMG!

    I like your new layout Shari!! Ganda!

    I havent tried upgrading to 2.5 yet.. im scared that some of my plugins wont work anymore! HAHAHAH! But I will upgrade soon.. am just very busy the past days..

    Hey I want to invite you sana to my wedding, though we havent met personally yet, I just feel that sometimes we’re connected (charing). You can visit our wed sites @ http://jacinto-saavedra.nu.cx/ and http://weddingprep.luv.ph/

    I will send online invitation also via my RSVP script ;)

    Thanks!

  14. PIC Microcontroller

    maganda ang new layout nito.

  15. Neil

    OMG. Ikakasal na si bathalumang Ems? WOW!

  16. Dre

    Yay for Wordpress :yay:

    I’m so glad you are back. I thought you totally abandoned your blog.

  17. Jenny

    oh wow, i wanna know how to do that! xD

  18. Ivy

    Cool!! I didn’t really think about subscribing to my friends’ feeds on my dashboard since I subscribe using a startpage aggregator. But that’s definitely a good idea for those who don’t use online readers or startpage aggregators. :)


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