How To: Redbrick Planet for X-Dashboard
This is rather funky. If your a Wordpress user there is this nice plugin called X-Dashboard which allows you to configure the ‘dashboard’ on the Wordpress interface.
I only recently figured out how to get the Dashboard working properly on Redbrick (see the Redbrick Wiki Topic “Installing Wordpress“) so I fired up the plugin and am now able to configure what appears in it.
Whats just a little bit cooler is that you can write mini plugins for the plugin that allow you to include different feeds. So I wrote two, one for Planet Redbrick and one for Planet Irish Gaming.
Install the X-Dashboard plugin normally. There should be a folder in your plugins directory called x-dash-plugins. Create a file called redbrick_feed.php (you can use nano, pico or touch) with these contents:
and chmod it to 755. Now you can have the latest redbrick blog posts in your dashboard!
Likewise for the Irish Gaming Planet feed, create a file called igp_feed.php with this:
and also chmod it to 755. 