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Originally Posted by jayeff
My issue with the idea of "custom" feeds is that all I need is vanilla content, free of styling. Give me that and my CSS will make it match my site. Most of the problems arise with sponsors who impose their own formatting, the effect of which can be anything from creating minor inconsistencies in my layouts to actually breaking them. Shouldn't it be obvious that if your content is going to (hopefully) be hosted on hundreds of different sites, you must leave it to those sites to handle the way it is displayed?
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we already do this with our feeds no styling is applied so whatever CSS styles you have set on your posts will be carried over into the posts pulled from our feeds. but you are right i've noticed a lot of sponsors who's feeds are invalid or they leave styling applied to the posts so that the css of the affiliates site doesn't get picked up and may jumble the way the post looks. the idea of a custom feed is to basically suite the format of the blog, say the affiliate's blog has a different type of structure to it's posts and they want a more uniform look to their site, a custom feed using their post template would be implemented giving them content updated when they want in the format they want and so on....