Custom daily roundup RSS feed

[joshdarby]

Changes

This pull request makes the following changes:

• Adds a new RSS feed at ?feed=daily-roundup, based on the Largo Mailchimp feed, with a few modifications:
  • only grabs saved links post type
  • no limit of posts grabbed
  • <link> is the saved link
  • <source> is the saved link source
  • only shows from x if current time is y:
    • if current time is after 12PM, shows posts from today after 12PM
    • if current time is before 12PM, shows posts from yesterday at 12PM until now

Why

For #6

Testing/Questions

Features that this PR affects:

• New RSS feed

Questions that need to be answered before merging:

• [x] Is this PR targeting the correct branch in this repository?
• [ ] Brent mentioned he likes to have all of his links in by 12PM which is why we settled on 12PM here. However, he's in Mountain time, which is why instead of using time() to grab the time it's using current_time() instead so it grabs the WP timezone time, which is set to Mountain. Do we need any other timezone considerations here that I missed?

Steps to test this PR:

1. Add some saved links and publish them after 12PM. If you're viewing this after 12PM, make sure they appear on the feed.
2. Add some saved links and publish them yesterday at and before 12PM. If you're viewing this before 12PM, make sure that
   • posts published before 12PM yesterday don't appear
   • posts published after 12PM yesterday do appear

[joshdarby]

https://github.com/INN/umbrella-aspenj/pull/14/commits/914bbfc846d5f65e51bf79309d2704445664473f / https://github.com/INN/umbrella-aspenj/pull/14/commits/d4583ca81e92b7ffcb6a2b553c1c85c20572ff83 changes the cutoff time from 12PM to 12:30PM.

After speaking with Brent this afternoon he mentioned he wants the email to send at 12PM, so this extra 30 minutes will (hopefully) give Mailchimp enough time to process the email before the posts from the current day (today before 12:30PM and after yesterday at 12:30PM) disappear

[benlk]

Three questions:

• The RSS feed puts the most-recent items first. Is that the right order for his purposes?
• Do we want to make the cutoff time configurable by Brent?
• Would we want to add this to Link Roundups, eventually?

[joshdarby]

The RSS feed puts the most-recent items first. Is that the right order for his purposes?

He never mentioned a specific order they should be in. I'm not sure it matters in this context.

Do we want to make the cutoff time configurable by Brent?

He never explicitly stated the need for that; he just mentioned he wants it to be 12PM.

Would we want to add this to Link Roundups, eventually?

That would be a nice addition! If we do eventually add it, maybe we can add in configurable cutoff times.