So I’ve looked into an easy way of importing del.icio.us links into the blog.

So far, whether you google it up, or hit up the Codex (http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Delicious), there are a lot of solutions that aren’t quite what you’re looking for, or look complicated or outdated (requires wp1.2?).

Anyway, I’ve found one solution that does that job. Iconophobia’s inlineRSS seems to do the trick — and is versatile enough to import all sorts of feeds to publish on your blog.

It does require you, however, to do a few separate things before you publish it.
1) Edit your theme so that it includes a PHP script to call the inlineRSS plugin
2) Edit a file called inlineRSS.txt(which you can do within the blog browser –> go to plugins, and there is a link underneath the description), so that you can choose which feeds to “pull”; there is a bit of description on a few things you can edit, such as how many items to pull per feed and so on.
3) Edit a file called inlineRSS.xslt (optional), if you want to edit how the feed is displayed.

The last item was interesting, because you really do need to know “XML” to edit this …
and on Iconophobia’s website, there it does detail a way, for example to also pull the descriptions, in addition to the headlines.

I suspect, however the best way to get the most out of this is if you actually *DO* know XML and in particular XSLT, which is a programming language for transforming XML into XHTML

the W3C School on XSL is an excellent reference

Anyway, I found this all to be a bit involved.

I know Jeff Croft found that Magnolia to be an interesting social link-saver thingy … because the API was better than del.icio.us. Unfortunately, there is no good way to import Magnolia links successfully — even through InlineRSS, I have found. And unfortuantely, there doesn’t seem to a good plugin that seems to do it well either.

Things to think about and work on I guess.