Design Thoughts.. smart people.. help!

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Hey guys,

I am trying to take advantage of Wordpress yet still have a good quality system.. I'll explain what I am thinking and you all can tell me how best to implement ;)

Summary: For specific information on a Bonus (specific bonus information), I want to implement a Wordpress post. I want to do that because WP is just simply a great tool for getting information out to the search engines quickly. I have content in my database and need that to be the source of the information so that I can easily display it on other areas of the site.

My thoughts: I can create an RSS Feed and pump it into Wordpress, but need to make sure it also Pings. I would want that to update WP VERY quickly, though, since I would need that WP post active immediately when a bonus is entered into the system.

Updating: If that bonus information changes.... how would I, then. update the content in the post? Or could I?
 

TheGamblingGuru

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Hey guys,

I am trying to take advantage of Wordpress yet still have a good quality system.. I'll explain what I am thinking and you all can tell me how best to implement ;)

Summary: For specific information on a Bonus (specific bonus information), I want to implement a Wordpress post. I want to do that because WP is just simply a great tool for getting information out to the search engines quickly. I have content in my database and need that to be the source of the information so that I can easily display it on other areas of the site.

My thoughts: I can create an RSS Feed and pump it into Wordpress, but need to make sure it also Pings. I would want that to update WP VERY quickly, though, since I would need that WP post active immediately when a bonus is entered into the system.

Updating: If that bonus information changes.... how would I, then. update the content in the post? Or could I?

Well, I had some info for ya until I re-read the part of your post that says... "smart people.. help!"... :emoticon-0141-whew: I knew then I was off the hook! lol

As far as updating the content in the post though, I would imagine that you would have to do that manually, unless you are using a fed in feedburner feed or similar that will implement the update automatically.

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Aussie-Dave

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Hi Andy,

Fortunely with WP these days there are a lot of things one can use and do to add just about anything to WP.

I suppose it depends on where you'd be adding this content, though I'm guessing you wouldn't be adding it via a side panel widget. I'm not an advocate of hacking the WP core because with each update you may find your hack code will also require updating too...Total PITA.

You could use an iframe plugin and doing it that way. However if you want this content indexed, then I'd be looking at implementing it through xml. There are plugins that allow you to run custom rss, not too sure about xml though. However it maybe worth contacting a programmer who can knock you up a plugin to suit your requirement.

As a second thought it maybe possible to add this functionality to your theme something else to ask about...

Again I personally would look at every other possibilty before consider hacking the WP core to get this functionality.
 
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