Full Site RSS Feeds on Joomla 1.5

Are you sure about recommending feederator? I just wen to the deo site and got nothing but errors and undefined classes.

It also requires legacy ;(

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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.

@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

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.ijoomla.com/ijoomla-rss-feeder/ijoomla-rss-feeder/index/

Merav
Founder
iJoomla.com

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://consumercowboy.com/dell-coupon-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

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?

We now have more solution at http://extensions.joomla.org/c...Itemid,35/. This one written in MVC pattern and on the way better day by day.

Hi all,

@kyle and others:

a little bit of information about rss feeds, sh404sef (and Joomsef, sef advance, etc). There is a specific issue with rss feeds in Joomla and SEF when used with some system plugins. The sef extensions does not matter, will be the same will any as long as they produce fully sef-ied urls.
THe problem arises when a system plugin (commenting for instance) places a call to JFactory::getDocument() from an onAfterInitialize event handler. This is too early in the joomla workflow. THe sef url has not been decoded yet, therefore the getDocument method does not identify the document to be produced as a rss feed and instead set the document type to html. All subsequent page building fails. This also applies to pdf actually.
There is no solution, only workaround. I have put in latest builds of sh404sef an option to keep &format=feed in all feeds (and pdf) urls. You need to activate this option if you are using one of those faulty system plugins.
Joomla SEF is less prone to this problem as it bascally does not sefy the feeds urls.

Rgds
Yannick

Thanks for the explanation Yannick, that confirms what everyone says about you, you really know your stuff

Steve, did you update you Jomcomment install or something, layout's different

Anyone tried any RSS feed generators lately? I'd love something that is 1.5 native if you've used it...

Feederator in my opinion isn't so well...

I combined my Joomla feeds with Yahoo Pipes and published this custom feed trough FeedBurner and then published the FeedBurner feed on my Joomla site.
http://www.laszlomolnar.name/web/tips-and-tutorials/all-rss-feeds-in-one-joomla-yahoo-pipes-feedburner.html

thanks
im gonna try feederator with combination with yahoo engine

Hi!

If anyone could help, i need to use rss feed on every articles that i have but only the front one appears, what can i do cos i can just put evrey article on the front page?