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Chris Gilligan University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Companion Blog Post Companion Blog Post

• Code Samples
• Explanations
• utc.edu/outc16

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– Categories, Tags and Search strings – Images, Media attachments

• Media attachments and customized

template require some additional tweaks

PHP files PHP files and OU Assets

and OU Assets

• Parse feed and display HTML

– “heavy lifting” “dev side”

• Variables set to defaults for testing

– verify feed access and XML structure

• Files for various types of display html
• Files for various sources of RSS

PHP files and PHP files and OU Assets

OU Assets

• Simple structure, “user friendly”
• Specify RSS source
• Limit number of posts to display

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• cache RSS feeds via WordPress plugin,

e.g. W3 Total Cache

– cron job to fetch feeds to local server

• minimize external requests

– faster page load

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Somewhat limited in terms of data, unless you build landing page

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• media attachments and a customized

template require some additonal tweaks

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• jQuery plugin and PHP to pull in social

media posts for the university account, as well as for individual departments and colleges.

• $8 jQuery Social Stream (Code Canyon)

– “What you pay for vs. what you work for”

Blog Post Blog Post

Links, Examples, Code Samples Links, Examples, Code Samples

utc.edu/outc16

Chris Gilligan

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga