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diff --git a/doc/tips/howto_avoid_flooding_aggregators.mdwn b/doc/tips/howto_avoid_flooding_aggregators.mdwn index 98cef9249..e45b96689 100644 --- a/doc/tips/howto_avoid_flooding_aggregators.mdwn +++ b/doc/tips/howto_avoid_flooding_aggregators.mdwn @@ -1,27 +1,27 @@ If you have a [[blog]] that is aggregated, either on a site like Planet Debian, or just through user subscriptions, one common problem is that -changes to the guids of items in the blog can "flood" the aggregator, +changes to the guids of items in the blog can “flood” the aggregator, causing all recent blog entries to be posted to the top of it. This can happen in a lot of situations: -* Perhaps you've just switched to ikiwiki from some other blog engine and +* Perhaps you’ve just switched to ikiwiki from some other blog engine and imported your data. -* Perhaps you've turned on the `usedirs` setting, which changes all the +* Perhaps you’ve turned on the `usedirs` setting, which changes all the urls in your wiki. Even if you set up [[redirections|redirections_for_usedirs]] for the old urls, you still face the issue of flooding aggregators. -* Perhaps you've just moved stuff around in your wiki. +* Perhaps you’ve just moved stuff around in your wiki. -To avoid annoying readers in these situations, it's a good idea to remove -any existing items from your blog's news feed. That way only new items will +To avoid annoying readers in these situations, it’s a good idea to remove +any existing items from your blog’s news feed. That way only new items will show up in the aggregator. The best way to do this is to add a `feedpages` parameter to the `inline` directive for your blog, with a condition such as: feedpages=created_after(blog/posts/old_post) -Where "old_post" is the name of the last post you made to the blog before -making the change. This will limit the feed to only newer posts, while stil +Where “old_post” is the name of the last post you made to the blog before +making the change. This will limit the feed to only newer posts, while still displaying the old posts in the blog page. Alternatively, you can add the [[plugins/meta]] guid directives to pages, |