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May

2007

10 Steps to Great RSS Feeds with Joomla

Written by Steve Burge

RSS Feeds are a great way to build visitor loyalty and to keep them coming back to your site.

They're also good for link building as people keen to keep their sites regularly updated are always looking for good RSS content. The benefit for you is that you get a link back to your site and hopefully some added traffic.

So what's the best way to set up RSS Feeds within Joomla? I'm glad you asked....

10 12 Simple Steps to Joomla RSS

Go to the RSS Feeds section on Joomla.org.
Download one of these components: Kusoma RSS, BCA RSS Syndicator or the commercial jLord RSS Feed Creator. They are all good solutions. Our how-to here will focus on BCA RSS Syndicator.
Install BCA RSS Syndicator via the Joomla installer.
Go to Components >> BCA RSS Syndicator and click "New"
Fill in the information requested. Most of these fields are self-explanatory. You can happily just give your feed a name and click save.
After you've saved your feed, copy the URL or save it into a text editor.
Go to http://feedburner.google.com and register. You can use your normal Google account or register with new information.
Login and enter the URL for your RSS feed into the box.
Give your feed a name and URL. Make sure to write down the name of your new feed URL.
Over the next few weeks, you can login back into Feedburner and see detailed information about how many people are subscribing to your feed
You can add your RSS link to the browser bar so that people can easily see a feed is available. Open up your template's index.php and add these lines between the tags:
Go to https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit and submit your RSS feed.

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Your Comments (27)

Jozsef Tamas Herczeg

May 17, 2007

Another good opportunity for reusing the feeds is to create a KlipFolio klip, I wonder why Joommla webmasters haven't discovered it yet.

Herbert-Jan van Dinther

May 21, 2007

Good to see you promote the Feed possibility as well...

Personally I like the DS-Component from www.joomlafun.com better then the Run Digital because you can get full content feeds, including images and proper layout from it!

Feedburner options
You can also use the Feedburner publicize option "Smartfeed" for the best compatibility.
And since a lot of people still want the updates via e-mail you should activate "email subscriptions" on the Publicize tab.

Steve Burge

May 21, 2007

Thanks for the great tips Hummerbie! Feedburner really do have a wealth of tools. In fact, the rumor since I blogged this last week is that Feedburner is going to join the great Google Empire and be folded into Google Analytics.

David Towers

November 27, 2007

Seems like you were right Steve! Google have indeed acquired feedburner!

Bernard

December 18, 2007

Thanks Steve, I followed your suggestion, worked like a bomb. Now I just have to get stuck into the stats generated by Feedburner

brandon

March 19, 2008

This aint working for me. It works but it took many times for feedburner to accept the feed. and now when i try to do anything in feedburner i get "connection was reset" or "FeedBurner encountered an error adding your feed to feedburner."

Mike Law

April 18, 2008

I am trying to find an RSS feed manager for Joomla 1.5 but no luck so far. Do you know how to find the URL for the feed for the entire site? There seems to be a front page feed, and a feed for each section and category but I am sure there is one for everything.

A module which showed all available feeds or a component which created a new page listing all feeds would be useful.

Thanks,
Mike.

Daniel Wolff

June 11, 2008

Hi Mike, I use the mod_syndicate, which is default from Joomla 1.5

Kellen C

August 27, 2008

Hey, Thanks for the tips. I really like what i see from feed burner. Have you found any modules to make it easier for subscribers to your feed such as "rss feed friends" or would you consider that a waste of time?

Wade O

November 02, 2008

Nice to know I have been using Feedburner for a while now and did not realize the noindex option I like that you can select that your feed can not be used in yahoo pipes. I have been a little afraid of someone stealing my content for republish.
Thanks,
wadeo

gautch

November 03, 2008

I walked through your step by step and it worked great. The only issue i still have is the original Joomla RSS is still there. Does any one know how to turn that off?

Jesterspaz

December 04, 2008

I am getting dual domain names when feedburner sends email subscriptions...causing 404 errors. has anyone come across this?

jwbrett

December 11, 2008

GAUTCH,

Go to EXTENSIONS > MODULE MANAGER > and disable SYNDICATION.
That should do it.

jwbrett

December 11, 2008

The RSS Feed Manager mentioned in the "Top 10 Steps" above will only work in Joomla 1.5 in LEGACY mode.

So...the search continues.

Ganesh

January 03, 2009

Hi Thanks for such a nice post.
I was looking for how to setup feed in joomla.
I was up and going within minutes after reading your article.

Thanks once again.

Ernie de los Santos

February 14, 2009

I am looking for a way to make my Fireboard Forum generate an RSS Feed, so that I can use Feedburner to generate emails...

I use the Syndicate module for my news articles, and that works fine, but I cannot get Feedburner to use the feed given by the Fireboard forum.

any ideas? anyone?

Ruben Moreno

February 18, 2009

which RSS deed should we use in the index file, the feedburner one or the RSS Syndicator one? thnaks

Matthew | Polaris Rising

March 28, 2009

The best RSS generator I've found for Joomla 1.5 the Breast Cancer Awareness RSS Syndicator. You can google that. It's based on the RD RSS reader. (there's nothing about Breast Cancer in it other than the name, they just did that to help fundraising in donations)

If you want to have people subscribe to the fireboard forum, an RSS feed would be :

(yoursite) /index2.php?option=com_fireboard&func=fb_rss&no_html=1&Itemid=49

You can't customize it that much, but that's something.

Polaris Rising

Mad Hatter

April 10, 2009

pretty awesome! thank you!

?orest mars

April 12, 2009

Steve,

I think it may be a little confusing for people that this item displays today's date next to the title and so people might not realize this is a very old module that is only for 1.0.

I would strongly encourage anyone currently running 1.0 to upgrade to 1.5, and not install any new modules under 1.0, especially if they are not supported in 1.5

Steve Burge

April 13, 2009

Hi ?orest mars

You're right - it was out-of-date.

I've just updated the tutorial with a new component recommendation.

Mike Glish

April 27, 2009

Maybe I haven't read closely enough, but I can't see exactly how to add the RSS icon to the appropriate pages.

Daniel Mundy

May 01, 2009

I thought this was posted today! It says May 5... but it was useful all the same. The BCA RSS component is great!

I worked out how to get rid of the built-in RSS links from the header. See my blog post here: http://mundy.net.au/Joomla-1.5...ith-joomla

Thanks for the inspiration to get this working!

Daniel D

May 05, 2009

This works great, put it up on my site http://www.ihatehannity where people share opinions about sean hannity.

Karen Leslie

July 04, 2009

Option 11 says:
# You can add your RSS link to the browser bar so that people can easily see a feed is available. Open up your template's index.php and add these lines between the tags:

What lines of code? There's nothing there and I looked in IE as well.

What am I missing?

Thanks for any help,
Karen

Alwin

January 22, 2010

In my case the RSS has to pull all the articles from K2 and display it as the default feed. I mean when the user clicks on the feed links in the adress bar he has to get his feed. Could anyone tell me which component I have to use or where should I change ?

Kahaly

February 15, 2010

Hi Steve,
I am using feedburner for my joomla 1.5 site. It is not displaying feed after the "Read more" tag. Please give me solution or a work around. I am stuck :(

Thanks,
Kahaly.