I am a delicious lover… I have been using the service since it was released and I have thousands of links bookmarked and still use it everyday. I consider it to be a fantastic tool for the pro blogger and if you use it to its full potential you can update your wordpress site and keep your content fresh everyday using the links you tag whilst you surf. I utilise this technology on the front page of adamskee.com.

Here on the adamskee.com site I use multiple RSS feeds on the front page. The design and css feeds are directly coming from my delicious page. When I am surfing and I see a page/site that I would like to add to my site I merely press a bookmark in my browser add a description text and this post appears on my site. Here is the process and explanation on how to achieve this.

Firstly, head over to del.icio.us and set up and account, it is free. Then you need to set up your button(bookmark) at the top of your browser for 1 click addition to your site. The easiest way to do this is to book mark any page then change the properties of this button to your delicious info. The image below shows the properties of my bookmark/button.

In the description above you can see that my account is called “motherdigital”, this is the only code that will need adjusting, just change it to you account name. Now if it is all set up properly you will have a button/bookmark at the top of your browser that when you press it will automatically post your page with a description tag (you fill this out) in your delicious links.

Now, you have your delicious links all working and you want to get your feed into Wordpress. There are a few plugins available to do this but I recommend BDP RSS Aggregator, it has by far the most options for stylising your links and total control over the feeds coming in. The process in setting up your RSS to display in your content area is quiet simple.

1. add the feeds you wish to provide on your site - multiple feeds can be entered as a comma separated list
2. create/update the output format that will be used to output the feeds collected
3. set/change the feed capture attributes that will be used to poll the listed feeds
4. place a call to the BDPRSS2::output(n) function (for example) in your side bar, where the argument ‘n’ is the output format identifier.

If you are using the feed in your content area then you would call the function by using this syntax:

The number 3 relates to the feed number created by the plugin. Also, very importantly if you are calling the plugin from the content area you will have to use the plugin Exec-PHP, which allows you to use tags inside your content area. BDP RSS will not work inside the content area if you do not use Exec-PHP.

Once you have all this set up you are basically done, all that is left is a bit of CSS to stylise the feeds and lotsa surfing and adding links to your delicious account. Before you know it you will have lots of content in your blog that is updated every time you save a delicious link.