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I hung out in the back of the hall at Wordcamp, adding hAtom support to the default Wordpress theme.

Photo credit: Scott Beale (Laughing Squid)

I showed my work to Bill Lazar, who told me that Scott Allan Wallick’s new theme, Sandbox, available for Wordpress.com blogs, has hAtom baked in.

Well, that makes my work, Strangelove, v0.1, superfluous.

You can use Chris Casciano’s script for Net News Wire to read a Sandbox themed blog as Atom, or pipe it through Luke Arno’s hatom2atom proxy.

If you’re comfortable with editing PHP, open themes/sandbox/header.php, and add the following to the head section:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> Atom Feed" href="http://www.lukearno.com/projects/hatom2atom/?ctype=application%2Fxml&tidy=yes&url=<?php echo urlencode(get_bloginfo('url')); ?>" />

This will use Luke Arno’s proxy to generate an Atom 1.0 feed by parsing the hAtom format in the page. Strangelove does that out of the box.

If you’re running PHP 5 with libxslt support, you can run Chris’ filter script instead of the remote proxy.

At the µformats session, where you see me doing my Nikita Khrushchev imitation, I talked about this. Thanks to Tantek for inviting Slashchick and me up to talk about our hacks.

Slashchick modified the Countdown plugin to publish events in the hCalendar format, so that you can extract them from a blog page into your calendar.

Additional Tags: 2006, wordcamp, microformats