In this tutorial, we'll go into two possibilities with regard to the RSS Feed :
RSS feed :
"Really Simple Syndication", also known as RSS. This file is offered to its visitors by a website or a blog. In this file are grouped the title and content of the latest articles or blog entry or news, and a link to go to the website in question, also called RSs thread.
The purpose of the implementation of the RSS feeds on your website or blog is to keep your visitors informed when they subscribe to this feed for updates and news.et nouveautés.
When a visitor subscribes to the RSS feed of your blog, news will be displayed in their browser when they click on the next icon (e.g. in the bookmarks menu in Firefox)
Exemple of a browser bookmark in Firefox with various RSS feed subscriptions:
How to proceed ?
It is necessary to activate the service RSS
- Go to "General Administration", "Services Config " Services Config . "RSS Service" section .
- Tick:
and on the next line please specify:
the number of posts to be displayed (default is 10)
- Save.
Now your visitors can subscribe to the RSS feed of your blog, that is indicated by the icon at the top of the post:
without however having to go to those sites at all.
in other words, your visitors can read what's new in these other blogs, while remaining on yours:
How to proceed?
Note : In administration, Sections config Boxes config, look for line : • RSS Box : you may here choose a name for your RSS box; default name is"News of Friends".
In the admin section, click "Skin Configuration", then "Boxes config" (=boxes location),, you must choose the Left-hand Boxes or Right-hand Boxes column to activate the box "Blog Friends'posts" so that it is visible to visitors.
By doing so, you enable users to view directly on your site RSS blog feeds you have chosen.
- Click the "Data Management" tab, then click this icon: "Blog RSS feeds"
You will get to the administration page of blogs RSS feeds.
It is on this page that you visit the RSS blogs, and RSS feeds available on your site.
You may execute other actions on RSS Blogs Feeds.
Tick the desired actions and click the yellow button "Execute selected operations"
Please Note:
This last operation "remove from list" is reversible! To do this, go to: General Administration/Maintenance, you permanently delete by clicking [] or you restore [] in inactive status content (RSS, comments, blog posts, articles, news ...) that you previously no longer wanted to have in your list.
Sorting RSS blogs
4 different sorting options are available:
Ascending sorting on number ID - Descending sorting on ID number
Ascending sorting on descriptions - Descending sorting on the descriptions
Each inserted RSS Blog is assigned a number: The ID number.
By default, blogs are classified according to a RSS descending sorting on ID number
⇒ Descending sorting on the ID number, allows to find the latest RSS blog inserted to make changes in the content, or delete it from the list.
⇒ Description sorting allows to find RSS blogs by alphabetical order of categories.
Inserting an RSS Blog:
Click the link "Insert Blog RSS feed"
You get to the page where you can insert the RSS feed:
simply type in the name of the website (or blog) sending RSS feed.
type in or paste the URL of the RSS feed
Do not forget to click the yellow button "Save" to ... Save your entry!
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