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| Full Site RSS Feeds on Joomla 1.5 |
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Instead of a single feed, the 1.5 RSS feed that appears in the browser bar is always changing because it shows only the articles on that page. You can see a good example at http://community.joomla.org. This did lead to one problem I found the other day ... its sometimes difficult to produce a full RSS feed for all the articles on your site. Solution #1: Publish All Articles to the FrontpageThis works well for two situations:
However, if you pick and choose your frontpage articles, you'll need another solution Solution #2: Use Feederator
Also available is a premium version which costs $19 and imports RSS feeds, allowing you to place them in content items. Support at Recly.com is active and friendly. I found a small bug and Anton, the developer, fixed it in minutes. Note: If you use #1 or #2 and want to add the RSS feed to the browser bar, you'll need to turn off the default RSS feeds by going to Menus >> Main Menu >> Parameters (Advanced) >> Show a Feed Link >> No Further Reading
Comments (14)
  written by Steve Burge, July 23, 2008
Legacy and broken demo site - both true, but theres no alternative for 1.5 and there is a free version to test without buying.
 written by Kyle Ledbetter, July 23, 2008
We used the Frontpage method since we don't use Frontpage component, and it works pretty good. We ran into a problem with SEF not allowing the RSS feeds to work with sh404sef and JoomSEF.
 written by Mike Law, July 23, 2008
I have been using the Feederator plug-in pretty much since it was first released as I was desperately trying to find a better way to handle RSS feeds. It was buggy at first but they offer good support and have already made quite a few improvements.
It is still not perfect but I have successfully integrated all of my feeds into Feedburner no problem. I no longer have that issue where it didn't add your domain to the front of your links in your feed, I forget the technical name for it. I know there was a hack for that but I prefer to keep hacks to a minimum to avoid having to redo them with every update. Also on my current site I am building I have a Wordpress blog as well so I used Yahoo Pipes to combine the entire site feed generated by Feederator and my Wordpress feed. The ability to do that within Feederator would be useful, you could also combine selected categories like you mention.  written by Stephen Moseley, July 24, 2008
Thanks for the tip Steve! This seems like something that could be pretty good (that is if the broken demo site is a fluke thing.....)
I hadn't really thought of the front page thing either. You are basically saying not using the built-in Front Page component? How do you set up the custom front page? written by Johan Janssens, July 24, 2008
Another solution to fix this problem would be too build a Yahoo! pipe for your site combining the different feeds into one big feed.
We have blogged a few weeks ago about how we are doing this for Nooku.org, here is the link to the post : http://blog.joomlatools.org/20...la-15.html  written by Cory Webb, July 25, 2008
I actually need something like this for a client's site. If I build something comparable but less buggy, will you promote it on your blog for me? I promise to keep it GPL.
written by Steve Burge, July 25, 2008
Kyle ... you're one step ahead
Did you fix the issue? Mike ... glad to hear I'm not alone in liking this Steve ... yes. I use ijoomla's news portal here. Others use a static content item with modules place. Others use Myblog etc. Johan ... thanks for the tip and the link. A little confusing for beginners but might work fine for people with more experience. Cory ... absolutely. RSS feeds need better handling in 1.5.  written by Anton Nikiforov, July 25, 2008
Someone deleted all the feeds on a demo site. Fixed now! I guess I would need to clean up the database at least once a week
written by siviwe, July 29, 2008
1. Currently i'm designing a site using joomla, i have a form in my page but the submit button is not functioning.
2. I can not create blogs for my sent comments, i have tried several times learning from the notes but nothing is happening. written by Kyle Ledbetter, July 29, 2008
@Stephen & @Steve: We actually do keep the frontpage component as our homepage link, but we have a conditional around the component tag that doesn't publish it on our homepage (so our homepage is all modules). This is pretty much the same thing as just linking to a blank uncategorized article for your homepage. For some reason, with sh404sef or Artio, the frontpage RSS feed was the only one that worked, but we still had to do a fix on it to make the titles unique for each feed item.
@Johan: I haven't even considered using Pipes for feeds, that's a cool approach @Cory: I'm interested as well, let's see what you got
 written by merav, August 13, 2008
Hey Steve, another very easy solution is our iJoomla RSS Feeder, it not only generates RSS feeds for every section/category but also fully integrates with Feed Burner which gives you all the Feed Burner advantages like reports, distribution, etc. More details can be found here:
http://www.ij...eder/ijoomla-rss-feeder/index/ Merav Founder iJoomla.com written by wadeo, August 15, 2008
rss feeder looks amazing I can not wait to try it. Currently Im looking for a way to display feeds on my site that would come in from yahoo pipes. I know of a couple all ready and have spent countless hours testing different ones.
I need a something that would work in joomla 1.5.6 , has interactivity to the feeds like an accordion or moo tools style interaction for an example of the feeds that I'm in porting to my site you can see what I'm trying to do. http://consum...upon-codes-dell-small-business or http://consumercowboy.com/feedtest All the content on this page is from a rss feed using the two different components the second one is from RSS factory and they have a pro model out now that is a little more advanced. Has any one used the RSSFACTORY PRO or something similar that I'm missing? Thanks, wadeo written by Tom Wilson, September 29, 2008
I used feederator on http://www.eurocarblog.net but there was a problem with images showing up as I was using SH404sef... I wonder is Ijoomla RSS Feeder has this problem?
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No doubt about it, RSS feeds on 1.5 are better than they were on 1.0. Not perfect, but certainly better.
Now this is a great component! 
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It also requires legacy ;(