Overview

Reblog is a Movable Type 4.25 plugin that consumes RSS and Atom feeds and turns the feed entries it finds into Movable Type entries. Each blog can have a number of sourcefeeds associated with it; these feeds can be consumed manually or, if run-periodic-tasks is enabled, on a set schedule; that schedule can be customized for for each blog. Information from the feed’s entries – author, permalink, feed location, and so forth – is associated with the new entries and can be displayed using template tags.

What can you do with Reblog?

• Automated linklogs – start a new blog, add a lot of sourcefeeds, and include it as a sidebar on your site.
• Recent posts from specified content partners, sorted by partner.
• Genuine content aggregation, in which posts from another source are to be displayed as though they were directly entered into MT.

Prereqs

In addition to the base requirements of Movable Type 4.25, the following CPAN modules are required:

• DateTime
• Date::Parse
• Switch

Reblog’s parsing behavior may be improved by installing the following CPAN libraries:

• XML::LibXML
• XML::Liberal