Import single post?

[Amanda French]

Hey all,

So for Proceedings of THATCamp we'd like to import some stuff that is too old to show up in the blog's RSS feed. I have a cunning plan for a workaround that involves copying the post from the original site and pasting it into a new post on the blog where Anthologize is installed (I know! genius!), but I did wonder whether Anthologize itself might want to eventually include some other means of doing something like this, even if it's just adding a new post function within Anthologize itself. What do you think?

Amanda

[Amanda French]

I should add that of course we'll obtain the author's permission before we publish.

[Boone B Gorges]

That's an interesting idea, Amanda. Would you mind opening an issue
ticket at
https://github.com/chnm/anthologize/issues?sort=created&direction=desc&state=open&page=1
describing how you imagine it working?

In the meantime, this happened to come through my reader a few hours
after reading your suggestion:
http://wpmu.org/daily-tip-new-plugin-clones-content-from-any-url-to-wordpress/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Wpmu-Wordpress-Mu-PluginsThemesAndNews+%28WPMU.org+-+WordPress+MU+plugins%2C+themes+and+news%29

Boone

[Amanda French]

Hi Boone,

Ooh, thanks for the plugin tip -- I'll try that. I think I won't submit
an issue ticket, though, because after thinking about it I can't
honestly imagine how it would work other than by duplicating the "Add
Post" function within Anthologize, which seems silly. Even an XML import
wouldn't really help unless you got the owner of the blog to send you an
XML file with Export, and then you could import it with WordPress Importer.

Cheers,

Amanda

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