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Syndicating Other Sites' Feeds

In addition to creating RSS feeds from your content, you can also syndicate content from other sites. You can syndicate any content from any site that produces an RSS feed. You can add that content to a wiki page or a module.

In this section, you will syndicate the news feed from the TikiWiki community portal.
Release 5.x Release 4.x Release 2.x, 1.9.x
#From the Admin menu, select External Feeds.
  1. On the Admin RSS modules page, complete the following information in the Create new RSS module area:
    Create new External Feed
    Creating an RSS module from the tikiwiki.org news feed.
    • Name: Enter the name for the feed module, such as News from TikiWiki.org.
    • Description: Enter a description of the feed module.
    • URL: Enter the full URL of the TikiWiki news feed:
      http://info.tikiwiki.org/tiki-articles_rss.php?ver=2
    • Refresh rate: Specifies how often Tiki should check the feed for updates. Leave this as 30 minutes.
    • Show feed title: Specifies to include the title of the RSS feed (as defined by the feed itself).
    • Show publish date: Specifies to include the time and date of each post in the RSS feed.
  2. Click Save. Tiki saves the information and reloads the page.
    RSS Channels
    Your newly created feed module is now listed.


  3. Click Refresh Refresh to load content from the RSS feed.





Adding Feeds to Modules

Do you remember how you created a custom module, in order to place a poll in the right column? You can follow the same procedure to add an RSS module.
Release 5.x Release 4.x
#From the Admin menu, select Modules.
  1. Click the User Modules tab.
  2. On the User Modules tab, in the Create New User module area, enter the following information in each field:
    Create new user module
    Creating a module for the TikiWiki.org RSS feed.
    • Name: Enter a name for the module. This name will be used, internally, by Tiki and you (as the admin) only. Users will not see this name.
    • Title: Enter a name to appear as the title of the module. This is the title that users will see.
    • Data: Here is where you need to identify which RSS feed to to add. Simply enter
      where XX is the ID of the RSS to add.

    What? You don't remember the ID number of the RSS feed you created? Thats OK. In the Objects That Can Be Included area, select the RSS module(from the RSS Modules list) and click use rss module. Tiki automatically adds the necessary code to the Data area.


Now simply assign the module to the left or right column. Here, we are adding the module to the bottom of the left column:
Assign modules
Assigning the RSS module.


And here is the final module, as it will appear on the site:
RSS module
The TikiWiki feed being syndicated in your site.





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Contributors to this page: Rick Sapir , system and Rogelio F. Galliano .
Page last modified on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 03:35:16 pm EDT by Rick Sapir.
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