I wanted to have a way to find all of the comments posted on any of my WebWorkerDaily posts, but I couldn’t find an easy way to do it in WordPress (I don’t have access to plugins, since it isn’t my blog). As always, I turned to Yahoo Pipes for the solution, and I made it customizable so that others could use my pipe. Since I wrote this pipe for my use, it supports the configuration I needed, and I also tested it on TechCrunch, Mashable, and GigaOM. However, there were quite a few multi-user blogs where it does not work, so please pay close attention to the caveats below before using my new Comments for One Author on Multi-Author WordPress Blog pipe.
Caveats:
- Works only with WordPress Blogs
- Works only with blogs using Feedburner
- Will not work under non-standard URL / feed formats
I suspect that the WordPress / Feedburner combo is probably the most common configuration for multi-user blogs, so it should work for many blogs. However, if you aren’t using the configuration supported by this pipe, you should be able to clone the pipe and tweak it pretty easily to use other formats.
Usage:
- Go to the Comments for One Author on Multi-Author WordPress Blog pipe.
- Enter the URL for your Feedburner feed.
- Enter the author’s name.
- Grab the RSS feed output.
Please feel free to leave any thoughts or suggestions in the comments below.
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