April 19, 2008Plugin Summary
The WP-Profilactic Plugin publishes your LifeStream or informs readers where to find you online by parseing your aggregated online activity feed from Profilactic.
Road to v1.0 (Why I wrote this plugin)
If you want to keep friends in-the-know on your life online, then you need a way to aggregate your online activities. But, with the number of social sites on the web today, it’s hard to manage one’s own online identity/activies, much less that of friends.
If your friends care to know what books you’re reading, what music you’re listening too, what restaurants you love, etc., then services like FriendFeed, Plaxo Pulse & Profilactic - commonly referred to as “lifestreams” - are a great way to keep friends in the loop. (Compare Services at lifestreamblog.com)
As I searched for a solution to aggregate my lifestream to my blog, I came across Kieran Delany’s WP-SimpleLife plugin for WP. It did exactly what I wanted; however, adding new services was somewhat tedeous (others agreed. So, I began searching for a simpler solution.
My search of online aggregators led me to Profilactic. The noticable initial diffirentiator between Profilactic and the others (w.r.t. what I needed) was the large number of supported sites (175 at the time of writing this), the ability to include your own RSS feeds, and the title formatting. All the other LifeStream Services post items to the feed in a consolidated format (i.e., UserX posted three links on delicious); whereas Profilactic displays the title of each post individually so that users can see exactly what I bookmarked without having to go the services’ website to read the rest of the content.
So, I forked K’s SimpleLife plugin and came up with WP-Profilactic. Visit the Project Page to download. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at prof…@opindian.com).
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