Wordpress Plugin: To show category Livemarks in Firefox

2005 June 23
by Arun Bhai

Short Description

When you click on the RSS icon in the status bar of Firefox, it automatically “discovers” some feeds for you. Would you like to see every category of your blog appear as a seperate feed in Firefox? If so activate this plugin. And yes, this is my first Wordpress plugin.

You can see it in action at ArunRocks.com

How to Install it?

These are pretty standard.

  1. Download livemarks-0.5.zip. There are no additional required libraries

  2. Copy the livemarks.php file to your plugins folder at \wp-content\plugins

  3. Go to the plugins admin page and activate it

  4. There is no step 4! ;)

Full Description

Users of the Firefox and Opera browsers would familiar with live bookmarks or livemarks. This is a browser’s in built mechanism to keep track of any site’s RSS feeds. For eg: in firefox, an RSS icon appears in the status bar, clicking on which will display a menu of feeds automatically “discovered” by it. Wordpress blogs will automatically have two feeds (varies with the template) – an Atom feed and an RSS feed. This plugin tries to add the following to your list of of “discovered” feeds -

  1. Every category of your blog appear as a seperate feed in Firefox if you are at your blog’s home page

  2. The relevant category of a post will appear if you are visiting a particular post

  3. The comments feed of your blog

I have a problem!

Sorry. Please post any bug reports as a comments here

Version History (Changelog)

v 0.5 (June 23, 2005)

  • Initial version uploaded

Created by

Arun Ravindran

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13 Responses leave one →
  1. November 16, 2005

    This is a nice plugin, however I would like to see a fix for the validation issue that occurs when viewing single posts. The autodiscovery link is not placed in within the header tags.

    Any chance you might look into that?

    Thanks, whoo

  2. March 30, 2006

    (Quite new to WordPress)

    I downloaded and played with this plugin. A very handy thing.

    A couple of notes. The “type” attributes are wrong on most of the links: They claim to be Atom feeds, but are really RSS 2.0 feeds.

    Also, on my site at least (since it’s brand new), I didn’t want feeds for most of the Categories, which are actually empty; and I also decided I didn’t want feeds for subcategories, so I’ve found a “AND category_count 0 AND category_parent = 0″ in the categories query to be helpful.

    I removed the add_filter() on ‘the_content’, because (as whoo points out) it ends up placing s within the body, which is invalid.

    In livemark_index(), after the “if (is_home())” I added an “else if (is_category())” that executes “show_category_feeds(get_the_category())” (but I also add an explicit, visible link on my category.php).

  3. May 30, 2006

    Hi, thanks for the great plugin. I recently revamped your plugin to include the feed links in the header tags, rather than within the body tags, so that it now produces valid XHTML. Also added an option for users to customize with their own blog title for links and cleaned up the links themselves. Also, per Micah’s helpful tips, links will not be displayed for subcategories or empty categories. Finally, the feed “type” has been set to xml/rss rather than Atom. The plugin still delivers context-sensitive feed links. I have been running the new plugin for several months now with no errors or problems, so I assume everything is working properly. I hope it helps somebody! Here is the new plugin URL: http://perishablepress.com/press/2006/05/29/category-livebookmarks-plugin/

  4. July 25, 2006

    The necessary plugin (: It is established easily and perfectly works. Thank u so much!

  5. mathetos permalink
    September 10, 2006

    woohoo! just what I needed. Thanks!

  6. December 13, 2006

    What I want to do on my blog, is every few hours take the oldest post and move it to the front of the queue, all automatically. Anyone know if there is a plugin that can do this or a simple way to set up another plugin to do this (use my own feed perhaps)? Thanks.

  7. Johan permalink
    September 27, 2007

    Hi Arun, nice plugin. Does not yet work with WP2.3 because of the changed db schema. Here is the SQL statement to make it work with 2.3 too:

    select term.termid as catID, term.name as catname from $wpdb->termtaxonomy as tax, $wpdb->terms as term where tax.taxonomy=’category’ and term.termid = tax.termid order by term.name

    Cheers, Jo

  8. October 11, 2007

    I tested your plugin and is really nice. This Help me a lot with my blog! Thank You!

  9. March 20, 2009

    What I want to do on my blog, is every few hours take the oldest post and move it to the front of the queue, all automatically. Anyone know if there is a plugin that can do this or a simple way to set up another plugin to do this (use my own feed perhaps)? Thanks.

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