This is not strictly about FeedLand.
Suppose I have an idea for an editor for WordPress posts.
I have a constraint, the editor can’t save any information about the post that isn’t in the HTML code for the post.
This severely limits the kinds of editors developers can write.
Instead if WordPress had the idea that an app could store some JSON data along with a post, and when the user wanted to edit the post they would get the data back, we could edit all kinds of structures and have the result available in WP, not just to us, but to every app they give permission to.
I’ve wanted this feature for WP for a long time.
Maybe it’s already there? It has happened before that I’ve asked for a feature in a product that was already there. 🙂
I first saw this idea in the early Mac OS…
BTW, this idea goes back to the early Macintosh OS. Every object in the system had a 32-bit refcon which could be anything the app wanted it to be. Usually it was a pointer to an object that contained a lot of data and more pointers. You could attach them to a window, a menu, a button in a dialog, iirc every object had a refcon. Whole complex systems were built around this idea. It meant that the platform vendor (Apple) could evolve their internal structures without breaking developers.