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SimplePie is ceasing development

A couple of years ago I co-founded my first company and that has ended up taking a large portion of my time. As part of that, I've also released a new open-source project called CloudFusion (formerly Tarzan) that is beginning to take the Amazon Web ... [More] Services and Cloud Computing world by storm. Geoffrey has spent a lot of time in school, building tools to help the HTML 5 community, and now has a gig working for Opera. There quite simply isn't much time for SimplePie anymore — for either of us. [Less]

SimplePie 1.2 now available!

SimplePie 1.2 is now available. This release adds a few features that have been requested often, especially caching in MySQL (instead of on the filesystem) and the ability to autodetect more than one feed. Furthermore, a large number of bugs have been fixed, a mixture of low-priority bugs found throughout 1.1’s release-cycle, and a few [...]

OpenID for comments

We’re now supporting a technology called OpenID for comments. What does that mean for you? It means that you can sign-in and comment on our blog with your existing account from Google/Gmail, Yahoo!, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Windows Live ... [More] , Hotmail, Flickr, AOL, Blogger, WordPress.com, and others!
If you already have a registered account on our blog for [...] [Less]

New SimplePie Screencasts

It would appear that this is the season for SimplePie screencasts! In the past two days, I’ve discovered a few new SimplePie-related screencasts, and I want to share them (and a couple of older ones) with you.

Introduction to SimplePie ... [More] — Ryan Parman gives you a solid once-over about setting up SimplePie, merging feeds together, auto-discovery, [...] [Less]

Deprecating SimplePie Live!

Although SimplePie Live! was a cool concept, and something that I would have liked to see be successful, I simply haven’t had the time to put into it for nearly a year and a half now. One of these days I’d like to relaunch it when I have more time and resources to put into [...]

SimplePie 1.1.3 is now available!

SimplePie 1.1.3 is now available (like 1.1.2, “core” plugin will be updated soon). This is a bugfix-only release that resolves the one major issue that 1.1.2 created (gzip decoding errors while using fsockopen()), and fully resolves the ... [More] other major issue that 1.1.2 didn’t fully address (a workaround of a libxml2 bug).
Grab the latest release to [...] [Less]

SimplePie 1.1.2 is now available!

My departure was never going to be immediate, but I didn’t expect to be doing this (as Ryan always does this); however, the time has come (for me!) to announce the immediate availability of SimplePie 1.1.2 (”core” plug-ins will be ... [More] updated soon). This is a bugfix-only release that resolves some of the things that weren’t [...] [Less]

Weigh in on SimplePie 2

SimplePie 2 is both a fork and a ground-up re-write of SimplePie. The intention is to enhance the performance by trimming the fat, to build something more extensible, to make it easier to contribute, and to optimize for the kinds of tasks that we see people wanting to do frequently.
That being said, I took some [...]

Twitter Bug

Just a heads-up for anyone noticing problems parsing Twitter feeds:
SimplePie supports something called HTTP Conditional Get, which is the process of asking a feed if it has changed before we re-download a fresh copy of the feed. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been noticing a problem with my Twitter status on my personal [...]

The Easy Way to Display Single Items Using SimplePie

Are you looking for an easy way to display single feed items when you click on them? Check out this new tutorial showing how to do this fast and easy, using SimplePie:
http://simplepie.org/wiki/tutorial/how_to_display_a_single_feed_item