Delicious + RSS + Feed WordPress + WordPress = Cool Group Bookmarking Solution!

A recent client had us come up with a really simple way of allowing a group of people to bookmark content and share it through a corporate blog. So I thought about all my experience with RSS and WordPress and came up with an elegant and simple solution.

Step 1

1. Create a Delicious bookmarking account
2. Define your tags and make sure everyone knows what they are
3. Filter on the tag and record the RSS feed for step 2

Step 2

1. Install the Feed WordPress plugin
2. Configure it by subscribing to the RSS feed from the delicious bookmark service
3. Assign the subscription to a category on your blog and set all other desired preferences

Step 3

1. Start bookmarking but remember to use the appropriate tag in delicious
2. Confirm bookmarks are being published on the blog

Advanced Variations

You can make this a little more advanced in the following ways:

• Define multiple Delicious accounts and run each feed separately through Feed WordPress and assign them to each user account on the WordPress blog
• Define multiple tags and run each one through Feed WordPress to corresponding categories
• Use Yahoo Pipes to consolidate multiple feeds into one single Feed and run that through Feed WordPress. A perfect example of this is multiple delicious feeds as well as multiple Google Reader Shared Items Feeds!

By combining all of these tools together you end up with a very simple solution with very few steps for bookmarking content and sharing it through to your blog readers! If you want a little more help with setting up this solution ask your questions here and I’ll do my best to answer them.