Wordpress - creating galleries via XML?

[Tittytweaker]

What's the latest and greatest when it comes to doing something like this? There have to be plugins out there that allow you to pull from the sponsors xml or rss feed, right? Very curious, I'd appreciate a nudge in the right direction.

~TT

Edit: should clarify, I'd want it to upload the images to the wordpress media library, and not simply link to the FHGs.

[Tittytweaker]

Anyone? So I haven't been able to find any information in how people make these sorts of plugins work for them, especially for those who self host the images.

[pinkz]

cyberseo is worth looking at, pretty sure you can pull images & text from gallery rss feeds using it.

[BarryStyles]

Not sure if its what you are looking for but I used FeedWordPress plugin before to take from rss feed.

[Tittytweaker]

BarryStyles, I think I've tried that one in the past. Can you show me your site to see if it's close to what I'm trying to achieve?

The problem I'm running into with these is that the XML feeds never actually have the images, usually just a link to the FHG and maybe a thumbnail. So far, everything I've seen that handles images requires them to be included in the feed, which doesn't seem to be the norm for any of the sponsors I have used.

[InfiniteTech]

I don't think it will be real hard to quickly write some code for such a task.

If not you can adapt a "screen grabber" written in PHP/cURL and make it work for WordPress.

[Tittytweaker]

I have zero experience with things like that, which is why I'm looking to see if there are any plugins that would fit my needs.

[BarryStyles]

Originally Posted by Tittytweaker

BarryStyles, I think I've tried that one in the past. Can you show me your site to see if it's close to what I'm trying to achieve?

The problem I'm running into with these is that the XML feeds never actually have the images, usually just a link to the FHG and maybe a thumbnail. So far, everything I've seen that handles images requires them to be included in the feed, which doesn't seem to be the norm for any of the sponsors I have used.

Yeah I don't have anything set up at the moment that uses an RSS feed to show you TT. Before when I used it I was running an autoblog type site and used that plugin along with an autopost plugin to take images from RSS feeds and post them on my site.

[Tittytweaker]

But that's only if the images are shown in the RSS feed, right?

For example, here's a gallery from Femjoys XML feed:

<row>
<url>http://hosted.femjoy.com/galleries/115621_pqq823_poq533</url>
<link>http://refer.ccbill.com/cgi-bin/clicks.cgi?CA=927141-0000&PA=2432769&html=http://hosted.femjoy.com/galleries/115621_pqq823_poq533</link>
<title>Out in the Fields</title>
<models>Vani L.</models>
</row>

No images in the feed itself. You'd have to click the URL to actually get to the images. So far all the plugins I've seen require direct links to the images in the feed, which is where I'm running into problems.

[BarryStyles]

Originally Posted by Tittytweaker

But that's only if the images are shown in the RSS feed, right?

Yes, sorry I get you now TittyTweaker, the way I was doing it was when you could see the images in the RSS. It's a more learned man than me that will be able to answer your question. Best of luck

[DannyA]

I haven't done this with wordpress specifically, but I've done basically the same thing and it wouldn't be any problem to turn it into a plugin. There are a few different ways to go about it with different advantages and disadvantages.

The easiest part is taking a feed and dumping it into structured data, thumbnails, images and all that. I'm guessing all the feeds will have a degree of similarity where one mechanism can handle all of them, but if not it's no problem to have sort of plugins within the plugin, just a few lines each to accommodate abnormal situations.

The real work here is deciding the business logic behind how a feed is defined, how it's paired with a template, tagging or categorizing posts and all that. All very simple, it just needs to be clearly defined and broken down to accommodate any scenario.

I'll gladly do it either for a small fee, a piece of the action if I see potential, or we could even possibly go in on making this a commercial plugin.

[Tube Ace]

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[Tittytweaker]

I'm looking for something that handles images, but I'll keep that in mind if/when I start handling sponsors videos.

[DannyA]

I actually did some work on this but didn't find many good examples of FHG feeds and didn't want to bother signing up for a ton of sponsors. Got any you could post here?

Transforming a FHG into a template for WP and dropping the images into a directory is really effortless. Writing a plugin is a pain, but you can get around that just by having it generate an intermediate feed independent of WP and syndicating that with one one of the free plugins that does that.

If you post some I'll be more than happy to finish it up and give it away.

[Freax]

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[weewilly]

You might take a look at Gallery Scraper. It will create Rss feeds for ya

[ExcellentNudes]

The problem with feeds and Wordpress is that each feed is semantically different, i.e. has different ways of describing data. Your plugin must be able to parse the XML feed as it comes in; and since each feed is a little different, it can be hard to get a good parse. Your best bet is to either design your own plugin, modify someone else's plugin, or hire someone to do it for you.