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Understanding WordPress Syndication - WordPress Tutorial
From the course: WordPress for Education
Understanding WordPress Syndication
- Let's take a minute and talk about WordPress Syndication. In a typical scenario, where you have a user, and they want to browse the content in your course site. They'll open their web browser, and they'll make a request out to the website for the page, and the website will simply return back the content. Now that's how most websites work, but when we start talking about syndication, instead of just having the class website, each student in the class is going to have their own website, and the instructors may have their own separate websites, and each outside participant may have their own website, as well. With the scenario that we just looked at, when the user sends in their request, the class website then sends a request out to all of the other remote sites, and asks them, "Do you have any new content for me?", and the remote sites, if they have content, will submit that back as an RSS feed back to the main class site. The class site, then, sends all of that content back to the…
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