Ikke Spesifisk

Ikke spesifisk is Torbjørn Mathisen’s aggregated lazyblog, automatically bringing you his favorites and posted items from sources around the World Wide Web.

To present the content in it’s pure, stripped down form, Spesifisk is using its own API engines connected to the content providers’ publicly available APIs.

Spesifisk is currently aggregating content from:

• del.icio.us (links)
• Digg (links)
• Google Reader (articles)
• Revver (videos)
• vi.sualize.us (pictures)
• Vimeo (videos)
• YouTube (videos)

Sources that may be added in a later stage:

• Flickr (pictures)
• StumbleUpon (links)

To collect and re-post all feeds, Spesifisk is using Charles Johnson’s FeedWordPress plugin.

Modifications

WordPress is utilizing KSES, which makes sure that only certain allowed HTML element names, attribute names and attribute values will occur in the post. When syndicating posts through FeedWordPress the list of allowed tags is very limited, so to allow embedded videos, I had to override these rules in my functions.php file and add the following lines to $allowedposttags:


'object' => array (
'width' => array (),
'height' => array ()),
'param' => array (
'name' => array (),
'value' => array ()),
'embed' => array(
'src' => array (),
'wmode' => array (),
'flashVars' => array (),
'base' => array (),
'name' => array (),
'width' => array(),
'height' => array (),
'type' => array (),
'pluginspage' => array (),
'allowFullScreen' => array (),
'allowScriptAccess' => array ()),