[tor-bugs] #8275 [Website]: Add blog feed to tpo homepage

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#8275: Add blog feed to tpo homepage
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     Reporter:  jmtodaro     |      Owner:  jmtodaro
         Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  assigned
     Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:
    Component:  Website      |    Version:
   Resolution:               |   Keywords:  blog
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Comment (by jmtodaro):

 I've taken a fresh look at this ticket and come up with workable code.
 I've inserted a perl construct into index.wml that will hit the rss feed
 any time it is recompiled. However, I did have to install "libxml-rss-
 perl" and it's dependencies before the site would compile (I used XML::RSS
 to parse the feed).

 If this is an issue, we can still do this using only LWP::Simple (assuming
 it is available) and crawling the page directly for the data, but this
 will require tweaking if the html formatting of the blog changes (i.e. if
 we switch blog platforms it would likely need fixing).

 I have a test page here: http://jmtodaro.com/tor-blogwidget
 And the code is available here: http://github.com/jmtodaro/tor-blogwidget

 I am also attaching a patch in case you want to give it a go.

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