WP Links Manager Suggestion
It would be interesting for the WP Links Manager to, upon entry of an URL, go and spider that URL real fast to grab relevant data—info from the <title>, autodiscovering a syndication feed URI, check for links back to the originating site for XFN data…—and dump that into the form for the user’s perusal.
Like, if I put in http://photomatt.net/, it’d spit back:
- Title: Photo Matt » Unlucky In Cards
- Feed URI: http://xml.photomatt.net/feed/
- XFN: acquaintance
All of that data is spot-on, and it would probably keep the user from making a mistake and entering bad data.
Now, you might say, “What’s the bother? It’s not like this data takes long to enter!” But user-entered data always has the propensity for failure, no?
Also, what about the concept of a way to put Image URIs in <head>? Say I provide a banner image for the Indiana Jones School of Management—such a spider could take that URI and grab either the URI or the image itself [stored in a local folder for such a purpose, probably somewhere in wp-content]—and then the whole process of grab, FTP, and data entry is all automated.
Very good idea. I submitted it to the WP forums, want to hear their opinion.
-XeroCool
May 21st, 2005 at 12:44For my reference as much as anyone else’s: WP Links Manager Suggestion.
May 21st, 2005 at 13:21