admin on May 16th, 2007
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As with the ImageKind plug-in, I was also able to add some of the planned features for our datafeed manager plug-in to the Datafeed Manger project page. While this isn’t a “these features are definitely going to be there” list, it is definitely my goal list for the plug-in. I’m hoping to begin digging into coding this addition to the myNicheShop plug-in family soon. Now I just need to find where “soon” is in the timeline! 
At the time of this posting, following are the planned features:
- Automatic datafeed retrieval using WordPress’ chron feature
- Retrieve datafeed via ftp using information configured within plug-in options
- Pull posted product information from datafeed cached during the current day
- Datafeed retrieval will cache datafeed to standardized XML format. Site admin will map datafeed columns to standard Datafeed Manager field names within datafeed options for that particular feed. Once mapped the only time admin has to worry about their datafeed files is if the format is changed by the advertiser/merchant.
- Keyword search to go through all imported datafeeds
- Merchant search to search items from a specific merchant’s datafeed
- Product search to search for a specific product across all imorted datafeeds
- Table in wordpress database to cross reference postings to help notify/prevent duplicate product posts
- Price comparison posts when same product found on multiple merchants
To keep up-to-date with features as the plug-in is developed, keep watch on the project page and changelog for the plug-in which are available in our project list.
On a side note, I’ll be meeting with Adam O’Connor (developer of the Instant Cafe feedbuilder for CafePress) and among other things we will be discussing the possibility of being able to pull in Instant Cafe feeds to generate posts within WordPress.
