When it comes to doing things in WordPress, any idea I come up with has usually been implemented several times over, however I think (and I really hope someone has actually done this and I simply can’t find it) but the idea for this plugin came about after talking with several of my friends who ‘read’ the site. A number of them have actually complained that whenever they come to my site, they don’t understand what the hell it is I’m talking about. For example I’d say half of them are completely lost by mentioning WordPress.

Basically it’s a very simple idea, which makes me wonder that I can’t possibly be the first to voice my thoughts about it, and to be honest I can’t see the reason why it can’t be implemented by persons more talented at this than I am. Basically the idea is that you let the user take control of what he views or subscribes from your site. So the person comes to your site goes to a “user preference section” where they choose which categories they would like to subscribe to and then the front page shows posts only from those particular categories (latest being shown on top of course).

That way the user takes control of what they want to read.

Customise the RSS Feeds

In a similar fashion I know that WordPress allows you to subscribe to specific categories, but honestly I'm definitely not going to sit there and subscribe to the same site 15 times. It's stupid. I've got like over 200 feeds I've subscribed to, that is most definitely not an option. The problem of course is that I don't get the read all those 200 feeds as regularly as I would like to. In fact I don't get to read them that often lately, which is why I've been so behind the times lately. The other problem is the fact that there is a lot of noise in them feeds that I have subscribed to. The issue is most definitely not in the actual feeds themselves, but if I could subscribe to 200 feeds and specify which topics actually interest me from this particular site then I think it would definitely make my reading experience much more concentrated and less noisey.

It’s all about making sure the type of information you are interested in gets delivered to you in the correct way. It’s an extension of the RSS feed. It’s no longer acceptable to just provide me with an RSS feed. I want to choose the categories I’d like to hear from you, or allow you to choose what you view when you visit my site. That way you’re guaranteed to read things that actually are of some interest to you.

Anyone up for writing a plugin for me? I’ll send you white chocolate.