I’m a huge geek, or a little OCD, or both. In any case, I was frustrated when, after switching from my homemade blog to the WordPress setup, the new blog feed (which comes with WordPress) did a nice job of conveying text and images but couldn’t handle videos or other customizations I had implemented. (That’s not WordPress’s fault, of course; I just occasionally add things to my posts that require the code within my site to work.) As a result, when I used the feed to import my posts into Facebook as Notes, the Notes aren’t quite displayed as I would like. For instance, I might refer to a video in my post, but it doesn’t appear at all in the Note.

With my old blog, I created a custom RSS feed that stripped out all enhancements and provided Facebook only an excerpt, along with a link to the original post where the customizations (should!) work. I realize this additional linking step might be annoying for Facebookers, but seriously, if you are on Facebook to begin with, you probably have time to kill, and I’d rather you see my post as I intended it. So, I revised that RSS feed to pull data from the WordPress database instead. So far it seems to be doing okay!