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Using RSS feeds in Composr RSS feeds are very helpful and it makes sure that the information becomes available to a much wider audience. It's a very widely used tool throughout the web and here's how to set it up in Composr with many more interesting options to choose from, 1) First step is to add the built-in 'main_rss' block for feeds, it's very easy to add a block in to your page, you can find detailed information on how to add blocks here(http://compo.sr/docs9/tut_adv_comcode_pages.htm) 2) Composr supports a wide range of feeds to choose from, here is the list : News Catalogue entries CEDI posts Forums File/Media library Images of the day Members Comments Galleries Topics Birthdays Admin Recent Actions Calendar Authors Polls Points Conversr Personal Topics Support tickets Messages Conversr Unread Topics Downloads Comcode pages Activity Commandr 3) Another interesting feature is that you can filter the feeds, say if you only want to display the first category from a Feed, simply add a filter parameter to the end of URL like this, http://compo.sr/backend.php?type=RSS2&mode=news&days=30&max=100&filter=1 This will only show the first category from News feeds 4) You can read all the content from the Composr from your own personal feed reader as well, for example, you can use Feedly to read the feed contents by simply pasting the URL(eg: compo.sr/backend.php?type=RSS2) in Feedly's search field or by using the 'Add content' button to the left, this should fetch and sync all the feed content from Composr to Feedly |
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Using RSS feeds in Composr ------------------------------------------ RSS feeds are very helpful and it makes sure that the information becomes available to a much wider audience. It's a very widely used tool throughout the web and here's how to set it up in Composr with many more interesting options to choose from, 1) First step is to add the built-in 'main_rss' block for feeds, it's very easy to add a block in to your page, you can find detailed information on how to add blocks here(http://compo.sr/docs9/tut_adv_comcode_pages.htm) For example: If you want to display the RSS feed from "http://techcrunch.com/feed/" to your Composr page then you can add the 'main_rss' block to your comcode page(Screenshot_001.png) and set up the 'Param' field with the feed url as shown in the figure(Screenshot_002.png). The updated comcode page with the 'main_rss' block as mentioned above will display the feeds from the feed url to your site.(Screenshot_003.png) 2) Composr supports a wide range of feeds to choose from, here is the list : News Catalogue entries CEDI posts Forums File/Media library Images of the day Members Comments Galleries Topics Birthdays Admin Recent Actions Calendar Authors Polls Points Conversr Personal Topics Support tickets Messages Conversr Unread Topics Downloads Comcode pages Activity Commandr You can find the available feeds from your own site by going to the location "your_site_url/backend.php".(Screenshot_004.png) 3) Another interesting feature is that you can filter the feeds, say if you only want to display the first category from a Feed, simply add a filter parameter to the end of URL like this, http://compo.sr/backend.php?type=RSS2&mode=news&days=30&max=100&filter=1 This will only show the first category from News feeds 4) You can read all the content from the Composr from your own personal feed reader as well, for example, you can use Feedly to read the feed contents by simply pasting the URL(eg: compo.sr/backend.php?type=RSS2) in Feedly's search field or by using the 'Add content' button to the left, this should fetch and sync all the feed content from Composr to Feedly. Screenshot_001.png (137,059 bytes) Screenshot_002.png (113,447 bytes) Screenshot_004.png (75,340 bytes) |
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