INN/Largo — pull request #90 by drywall (2013-05-03 22:38:13+00:00)
Title: Feature/feedinput

Here's the latest on the RSS importer. There's an admin page under tools for setting up the feeds to pull from (it also links to a new Posts taxonomy you can use for organizing sources). Once you set feeds up to import, on the main administrative dashboard there's a block/widget that shows the stories the importer's found. Individual stories can then be turned into Posts (which are saved as Drafts).

If there's an author in the WP system that matches up with the author of the imported item, the importer will use that as the author — otherwise it defaults to user 1 ("admin").

We could add a dropdown on the feeds setup screen to allow for choosing the default author, if you want. Having a single default author for all feeds would be easiest. However, if you wanted to do something fancier where you can set a default author on a per-feed basis, that's also doable but will take more time.

Final word about deleting imported items (rather than publishing them): The deletion tool uses WordPress's "trash" functionality, so after deletion they stay in the database for 30 days or whatever it is (i forgot) until WordPress automatically does the full deletion. After WP does its thing, the system no longer has record of it having imported that item, so if it's still present in the RSS feed being imported it could re-appear. That's only likely to happen if the RSS feed isn't updated often or keeps a lot of items on it, though.