My wording in italics below (posted here) was misleading, too compressed to be clear, or something like that:
One of the powers of composing on WordLand, I believe, is the ability to inform WordPress pretty much instantly which of your RSS feeds you'd like a post to belong to. Or to more than one RSS feed, as well, if I'm reading the clues properly.
I've gone back over the steps a second time, so I'll try to say what I had in mind more usefully now. To me, it matters because it's a subtle and kind of breathtaking feature with value well worth exploring.
- WordLand allows the writer to quickly select WordPress categories.
- Each WordPress category comes with its own RSS feed.*
- So, in effect, selecting one or more categories in WordLand at the same time selects one or more WordPress RSS feeds for the post.
That's the main point, and a person could stop reading here.
Why is this so interesting?
Quick speculations about that:
- If over time a writer focuses on, say, three topics and, as a result, builds three audiences, the writer could easily point posts to each of those audiences via RSS.
- If a CoolSocialMediaTool came along that perfectly integrated posting via RSS, a category called CoSoMeTo could instantly post to that CoolSocialMediaTool.
- Etc.
How did I test this WordLand / WordPress link for myself?
What I did:
- I created a new WordPress blog with two categories. I called them testingOne and testingTwo.
- Writing in WordLand, I made three posts. The first post I sent to the new blog's testingOne category. The second post I sent to the testingTwo category, and the third post I sent to both of those categories.
What I expected to happen:
- I expected the blog's main page to show all three posts and the RSS feed associated with the blogs main page also to show all three posts.
- I expected the two posts that WordLand allowed me to quickly place in the testingOne category to show up on the blog's testingOne category page and also in the RSS feed associated with the testingOne category.
- I expected the two posts that WordLand allowed me to quickly place in the testingTwo category to show up on the blog's testingTwo category page and in the RSS feed associated with the testingTwo category.
What happened:
- What I expected to happen is what happened.
- The main blog page has all three posts and so does its RSS feed.
- The testingOne category blog page has the two posts I marked for that category while composing in WordLand and so does its RSS feed.
- The testingTwo category blog page has the two posts I marked for that category while composing in WordLand and so does its RSS feed.
I'm not saying I haven't overlooked something, but so far all I can see is a very useful feature residing at the intersection of WordLand and WordPress. Many or all other WordLand users may have already noticed it, I couldn't say. And I don't know if the feature is important to the long-term vision for the WordLand and WordPress intersection or not. But it does seem like a happy result of Dave Winer's quest to put an end someday to having to cut and paste your writing into another software space.
This blog post you might have just read to the bottom of is a fuller telling of my inadequate post from the other day.
_____________
*To locate a WordPress RSS feed:
- Just add /feed to the end of the main page's URL for an RSS feed containing all posts.
- For a category-only feed, click on the category name on any post. The category's blog page will open. Add /feed at the end of that category's URL.
- In general, the format for a category's RSS feed is blogsFullUrl/category/coolCategoryName/feed — two examples are linked above.