mmarin

The posts increment counter is just a unique ID for the database: you don’t need to worry about it.

I think I’m looking to do something like your last 10 posts (except maybe last 2 or so posts with excerpts). So I guess I can do that just by calling the database directly.
But I never thought of reading my own RSS syndication feed. How is that done? Are there PHP utilities that allow you to do this?

The problem is that I want to treat the categories and the date-time separately, but they are in the same “meta” division, and there is text in both of these things without a container other than the div. I provisionally decided just to get rid of the categories for now, since I don’t have enough to make them worthwhile, and deal with the issue later when I have more categories and content.

Yes, of course PHP needs to parse the file to generate the Atom content, due to the way this Atom support was designed. And yes, it does work. But it’s unlike what other software does and is confusing, I think, to users. What I’m asking, and maybe it’s more of a PHP question, but is there a way to have PHP return the file as atom.xml after PHP has generated it? I suppose I could add xml to the suffixes that pass through the PHP parser (my HTML files now all are passed to PHP), and then just change the name of the file and the places that reference it. How are other apps doing this? Generating the file every umpteen minutes with a cronjob and saving it as a static file?

Even a simpler answer: if you don’t think it’s necessary, don’t use it in your blog. Nobody’s holding a gun to your head.

Shouldn’t the Atom feed return a file that ends in “.xml”? I’m getting the following file: “wp-atom.php”–which although the Atom inside is fine, the browser doesn’t display it. If I change the file suffix to .xml, then of course PHP doesn’t process it. Any way to fix this? Most Atom feeds will display in the browser, like RSS feeds, so users are used to that behavior.