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Can you enable your RSS feed?
John37309:
This board is an SMF board so it includes a feature where you can enable RSS news feeds from this website.
I believe you can do this from the board admin panel.
Read this about how to do it; http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=25009.0
Should be like this;
--- Quote ---First, make sure you've enabled the feeds:
Admin -> News and Newsletters -> Settings
Check the box next to "Enable XML/RSS News".
The "Maximum post length" value determines how many characters of a post are output in the feeds. The default value (255) is fine for now
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This would make it easy for more people to read your news and updates about the opp apps.
John.
Gecko_R7:
Thanks for the tip John! ;D
I'll discuss w/ Admin.
John37309:
Yep, let me know if you need any help!
Not sure what version of SMF forum you have, it might require an update or an extra module added, i don't know.
John.
John37309:
I see you guys enabled the rss feeds from your forum, well done!
To complete this properly, you need to do one more thing. To produce an rss feed that might be considered the "News about latest opp apps" from this forum, you need to create one new forum that is specifically for posting your "News items". The only messages posted in the new "News and announcements" forum would be by the people making the opp apps and officially making the announcement.
The reason you need to create a new forum specifically for this is because if you try to take an rss feed from any of the current forums, you get all the general chat mixed into the feed. So as a result, its not really news, its just chat which you can read on the forums anyway.
Current example, with the general chat that can't be removed; http://lunatics.kwsn.net/index.php?action=.xml;op=News;id=3
That example is this forum with all the important sticky news and announcements about the opp apps. But the real news just gets burried.
It would be cool to have rss news about the latest opp apps, it would be great for everyone!
John.
Gecko_R7:
--- Quote from: John37309 on 21 Mar 2009, 02:32:27 am ---I see you guys enabled the rss feeds from your forum, well done!
To complete this properly, you need to do one more thing. To produce an rss feed that might be considered the "News about latest opp apps" from this forum, you need to create one new forum that is specifically for posting your "News items". The only messages posted in the new "News and announcements" forum would be by the people making the opp apps and officially making the announcement.
The reason you need to create a new forum specifically for this is because if you try to take an rss feed from any of the current forums, you get all the general chat mixed into the feed. So as a result, its not really news, its just chat which you can read on the forums anyway.
Current example, with the general chat that can't be removed; http://lunatics.kwsn.net/index.php?action=.xml;op=News;id=3
That example is this forum with all the important sticky news and announcements about the opp apps. But the real news just gets burried.
It would be cool to have rss news about the latest opp apps, it would be great for everyone!
John.
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John, I activated RSS feeds in forum admin., but I haven't any indication that it's actually working.
For example, I do not get the RSS icon via Safari or IE browser.
Are you seeing an RSS feed for this site?
What browser are you using?
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