Planet

Planet is an aggregator that allows you to aggregate the blogs for users in a given role (e.g. staff) and associate content with the users rather than as a detached feed. This provides the benefit of showing avatars with content, providing per-user aggregation of planet content in addition to blog content, etc.

To use planet, go to admin/settings/planet and note the following sections:

• Recent Items. This is a queue of items that have recently been pulled into the site. The convert column allows you to turn them into bona fide blog posts. This is useful if you want to feature blog posts front and center and keep planet as a secondary content view. Conversion allows you to float site-relevant content to the mainstream while providing a view of more general content from your members.
• General Settings. The auto-publish value is a string that the module looks for in categories (if possible) or within a post itself. Posts that include the value will be auto-converted into blog entries. The role to select bloggers from lets you narrow the user list for when you're adding a feed and associating it with a user. A common setting will be to create a staff role and use this for planet.
• Feeds. This section lets you add a new feed. Give it a title, select an author, provide the feed url, and you're off. You'll have to manually refresh it or wait for a cron run for items to be imported.
• Feeds. This section lists current feeds, when they were last updated, how many items they have, and it allows you to edit, refresh, or freeze them. Freezing is a quick way to temporarily suspend updates from the given feed.

Releases

Official releases	Date	Size	Links	Status
5.x-1.2	2007-Jun-15	18.87 KB	Download · Release notes	Recommended for 5.x

Development snapshots	Date	Size	Links	Status
4.7.x-1.x-dev	2007-May-11	18.49 KB	Download · Release notes	Development snapshot