Having a reading list from RSS feeds is a convenient way to organize and aggregate various information source from the Web. After Google Reader was retired, many different readers services are available. Feedly and Follow.it are two good choices among those RSS feed readers. Different readers have different features. Follow.it provides features like keyword filtering
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Redirect Feed Links to follow.it using .htaccess
Posted onFeedburner used to a powerful tool for RSS feeds publishing and subscriber management. However, feedburner will unlikely leave its maintenance mode because there has been no new features yet less features for quite some years. But RSS feed is still an important part of the Web supported by many software such as WordPress. follow.it is
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How to automatically post blog RSS feed to Google plus pages?
Posted onI have a blog with RSS feeds. Feeding to twitter and facebook is supported by many tools. But for the Google plus page, it seems not straightforward. How to automatically post blog RSS feed to Google plus pages? You can use Hootsuite to post blogs through RSS feeds to your Google plus pages. First, register
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How to filter RSS feed items?
Posted onHow to filter RSS items and leave only certain items that I want? Rules may be like: satisfies all or any rules { contains keyword; does not contain keyword } or etc. Two sServices that I find working well for me: Yahoo Piples: https://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/</s> Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup
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How to increase the number of files allowed to be opened on Linux?
Posted onOn my system: $ ulimit -n 1024 Some tools like GATK are aggressive in creating temporary files by creating more than 1000 files under /tmp/. This will cause the program to fail. How to increase the number of files allowed to be opened on Linux? To increase the max number of open files to 10240,
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How to aggregate multiple RSS feeds to a single one?
Posted onHow to aggregate multiple RSS feeds to a single one? If you want a program to construct a web service by your own, SimplePie may be a good choice. It is written in PHP. If you just want a tool to make work done, I suggest Yahoo Pipes which works really well for me. (Yahoo
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Question2answer: show excerpt in the RSS feed
Posted onThere is a “Include full text in feeds:” option in the “RSS feeds” configuration panel but no options/method to only show excerpt instead of the “full text” or nothing for RSS feeds. This need to hack the question2answer source code. Details are in the answer. The changes based on Question2asnwer 1.5.4: diff –git a/qa-include/qa-index.php b/qa-include/qa-index.php
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Set Chrome RSS Subscription Extension to Subscribe to RSS feed using Feedly
Posted onHow to set Chrome RSS Subscription Extension so that I can subscribe to RSS feed using Feedly? Both tools are great and it will be better to combine them together. The link in feedly to subscribe a RSS feed (e.g. https://www.systutorials.com/b/feed/ ) is: http://www.feedly.com/home#subscription/feed/https://www.systutorials.com/b/feed/ We can replace the RSS feed URL with a %s in
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Disable WordPress Built-in Canonical URL link tag in HTML head
Posted onThe built-in canonical URL function since WordPress 2.9 is great. But under some situation, it is not needed. For example, all the Mingle Forum threads’ canonical URL is set to the URL of the page that contains the [mingleforum] shortcode, which, of course, is wrong. How to diabled it? We can disabled WordPress’s Built-in Canonical
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Tutorial Video for “PHP Function for Fetching RSS Feed and Outputting Feed Items as HTML”
Posted onAfter the post Fetching RSS Feed and Outputing Feed Items as HTML in PHP was originally published, there are some updates such as adding a simple RSS feed caching mechanism and supporting scanning content parts of the feed items for images. Recently, Webucator makes a great tutorial video on introducing the RSS to HTML PHP
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Fetching RSS Feed and Outputing Feed Items as HTML in PHP
Posted onIt is useful to show the feed items directly on the webpage as HTML content. In this ost, we will show one single PHP function that fetches an RSS feed and outputs the feed items as HTML elements in the web page. One example to fetch an RSS feed and output the itmes as HTML
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Web2 Icons: Icons of Social Networking in iPhone Style
Posted onWhen I tried to find a group of icons for my site, I got to the Web 2 Icons and decided to use it. Web2 icons is a set of icons of social networking in iPhone style. I used the RSS feed, twitter and facebook icons. But it has more icons in the package. It
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Speeding Up the Site With Apache GZIP Compression
Posted onWe can speed up the site with compression while save bandwidth at the same time. As most of the modern browsers support gzip encoding, we can set it up to let the users enjoy faster speed. The Apache mod_deflate is easy to set up and standard. It compress the content on the fly. We can
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