WordPress and the one and only loop

Grrr. Looks like I’ve run into a serious limitation of WordPress, namely the lack of blog aggregation. It turns out you can only have one loop on any given page, therefore you cannot merge two (or more) blogs. Why would you want to do that? To have a sideblog or linkblog. Here’s a good explanation. I’ve been struggling to do this here by stretching the concept of a tumblelog but I’m not too happy with the results. A tumblelog is cool when it’s just that, a tumblelog. But a hybrid where one mixes one liners with 300 words articles - it just feels so …unstructured. Now, I’m all for painlessly making a quick “hey, here’s a cool link” dump into my blog. But what I’m not about is skimping on presentation. Another side effect of hacking this on WP is the need of using categories such as Asides as blog structuring means, which just feels wrong.

Out of what I tried, I am extremely impressed with wp-recent-links, it is almost perfect for what I have in mind. What is left is figuring out how not to intersperse the linkblog entries with regular posts, and to get the recent-links feed to work.

Since it took some research, here’s a quick dump of my del.icio.us links to related WordPress hacks and plugins:

This entry was written by Dylan Damian and posted on September 12, 2007 at 9:47 pm and filed under Blogging, Technology, Posts. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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