JSON Feed for WordPress updated

It has been over a year since JSON Feed was announced. There have been a bunch of discussions about expanding the specification, but we are very happy with how well the initial version has worked. It powers all Micro.blog-hosted blogs by default and is also used on many WordPress blogs, home-grown sites, and other platforms, with great support in feed readers like Feedbin.

I haven’t had as much time to maintain the WordPress plugin for JSON Feed, though. David Shanske noticed this and offered to take the lead on merging pull requests and making other improvements to the plugin. Thank you, David! He’s now rolled all these changes into a new version.

You can grab version 1.2 of the WordPress plugin from GitHub or by searching for it in the WordPress plugin directory. Enjoy! And thanks again to David for moving the plugin forward.

Shawn Medero

are there advantages to using a JSON feed over RSS for micro.blog?

Manton Reece

@soypunk I think JSON is a little simpler and more efficient to process, but there are no visible differences in terms of features. Both work.

Shawn Medero

oh, heck ya on the processing angle (I'm a veteran of the XML wars...) it was the later point I was interested in. Thanks for the follow-up.

Manton Reece @manton
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