Hi all,
I am completely new to Movable Types and I have a question that will probably seem basic to you (and hopefully easily answered).
I need to be able to subscribe to other people's blogs and list their RSS feeds on my blog as an RSS feed, I am doing this project for school and I can't seem to find any topics on this, although there should be something out there as RSS feeds are a pretty common technology.
Can anyone help with this question?
Thank you!
Serena
Reported on Movable Type 3.x
Hi Serena,
Your question doesn't seem to be about an RSS Feed Aggregator, because you're not saying that you want to display articles from other sources on your Web site (using RSS Feeds Aggregation).
It looks like you just want to list those sources and their RSS Feeds somewhere on your site, maybe on the sidebar as an widget?
If that is the case, you'll just have to create a template module or widget and to include it on your project templates.
Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru
Hi, Serena. Are you trying to list a couple of headlines from each blog's feed in your sidebar?
In MT 3, the instructions are at Main Menu --> System Overview > Plugins. The name of the built-in plugin is Feed Apps Lite, and the Documentation link is to the right of its name on this page.
To actually create the template code to pull in a few headlines, navigate to the template listing or main menu of the blog in which you wish to include the feeds.
On the right side of the page, under "Plugin actions," you'll see "Create a feed widget."
A dialog will ask for the feed url (e.g. http://someblog.com/index.xml), how many headlines, etc., and spit out some code. You can edit it or just put it where you want it as is. (You might want to add a link to the blog as well, for instance.)