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Can you enable your RSS feed?
John37309:
--- Quote from: Gecko_R7 on 21 Mar 2009, 09:12:11 am ---
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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No, my browser does not detect the rss feeds either, its not going to. SMF designed this mod as an add-on or as an after thought, so its not hard coded as part of your SMF framework.
But the feeds are there, you just have to know how to get the feed. So Gecko, you, as the forum admin have to understand how it works. Then you have to decide if you want people to know that this new "Opp App news and announcements" rss feed are available.
So its up to you to place links where people will see the new rss feed is available, and get a nice rss icon. Get an rss icon here; http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/RSS
This is what you need to do;
1. So first you need to create the new forum that will only be used to post news items about whats happening with the latest opp apps.
2. You should probably move all the current "Stickied" news announcements into the new forum. Then you just have news in that forum.
3. Write a forum description saying that this new forum is only for news, its not for chatting.
4. Then you need to read the SMF announcement message and figure out the URL to use for getting the rss feed for that new news forum. This is the SMF message that explains how it works; http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=25009.0
5. This is an example rss feed from this forum, the general chat forum; http://lunatics.kwsn.net/index.php?action=.xml;op=News;id=3
6. Once you have the new forum and the URL to get the rss feed, then you can place that link on the front page of the website where people will see it.
7. This bit is optional, but not nessary. Just because you add the new link and an rss icon to the front page here does not mean that browsers will detect this automatically. If you want browsers to automatically detect that you have an rss feed from a particular page, you need to edit the template for your website and add the following code in between the <head> tags of your page;
This code;
--- Quote --- <link href="http://lunatics.kwsn.net/EDIT-THIS-FOR-YOUR-FEED-URL" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" />
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I think in your case, you would be editing the "index.php" page of your forum and adding the new bit of code there anywhere inside the <head> tags. But as i mentioned, this is just so browsers auto-detect the rss feed.
I will be back to check if you have any questions or need help.
John.
Gecko_R7:
Thanks John! This is new territory for me & hugely helpful!!
I'll start playing w/ it! ;D
John37309:
--- Quote from: Gecko_R7 on 22 Mar 2009, 12:13:56 am ---Thanks John! This is new territory for me & hugely helpful!!
I'll start playing w/ it! ;D
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Create the new forum, move all the current news messages in there and i will help you with any questions you have. Once you have the new forum, i will make sure you have the correct rss feed url for the forum.
John.
Gecko_R7:
--- Quote from: John37309 on 22 Mar 2009, 12:20:55 am ---
--- Quote from: Gecko_R7 on 22 Mar 2009, 12:13:56 am ---Thanks John! This is new territory for me & hugely helpful!!
I'll start playing w/ it! ;D
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Create the new forum, move all the current news messages in there and i will help you with any questions you have. Once you have the new forum, i will make sure you have the correct rss feed url for the forum.
John.
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I'll create the new forum & move posts etc. this eve. Easy enough.
Will have to wait until tomorrow to finish re: RSS feeds. (need sleep....dozing off).
arkayn:
To make it work correctly, you might have to split out each post into it's own thread.
That way there will be a list of the news release instead of it only showing one.
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