How to Activate Syndication on Drupal Sites
One of the coolest things about RSS in Drupal is that you never need to worry about creating the feeds yourself. Almost any list of nodes in Drupal has an RSS feed associated with it. Your homepage automatically has an RSS feed, as well as any category pages you create. Even pages created with the Views module have RSS feeds. The trick is that all of these RSS feeds are hidden from view. And if your visitors can’t see then, then they can’t subscribe to your content.
Luckily, there is a sweet module that helps you show your RSS feeds to your visitors. It’s called Syndication, and it’s another fine module from Moshe Weitzman. Here is how you set it up:
1.Download the Syndication module and install it like any normal Drupal module.
2. Go to your admin screen and click on Administer | Content Management | RSS feed syndication link. You’ll see the RSS feed syndication screen.
3. Enter the number of columns you would like to have displayed on the syndication page.
4. Select Blogs if you would like each user’s blog RSS feed to show up on the syndication page.
5. Under Vocabularies, select the category that you would like to show up on the syndication page.
6. You may want to leave the Taxonomy terms with no nodes option, set at the default of Do not show terms which are not used by any nodes.
7. Click on Save Configuration.
This should get you well on your way to syndicating to your content (with the Syndication module) and creating visible RSS feeds for your Drupal-optimized site. If you are need of further consulting on all things Drupal, check out the Drupal 6 Search Engine Optimization book for more professional Drupal SEO tips, or give Volacci a call.
by Ben Finklea on November 13, 2009 - 8:48am
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he three patches I am
he three patches I am submitting do:
Remove the control of feeds from the system module.
Creates a core module "Syndicate" that controls how many nodes are brought into the feed at a time and teaser length.
Creates a submodule; atom. The feeds it creates get their settings from the Syndicate module.
What does this accomplish:
Allow admins to determine what type of feeds they want to serve up. Atom, RSS, both (http://drupal.org/node/202018)
Allow admins the ability not to serve feeds at all what is seo Adding different feed types doesn't re-create similar functionality
What have I done so far:
I took the code from the Atom module that deekayen maintains and split it up into a Syndicate module, and an Atom sub module.
Activating the Syndicate module doesn't seo do much on its own except set node preferences.
Activating the Atom module, which depends on Syndicate, activates the ability to serve Atom feeds with the full capabilities of the original Atom module.
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Thank you
Thank you for making life simpler, I would have spend weeks figuring out the solution I was after, thanks it's because of your help i have come a long way.
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I'm thinking about converting
I'm thinking about converting my sites to Drupal also.
I'm so tierd of WP
-Jay the DV Cable guy
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Hi Ben,
I'm building a Drupal site right now.. and following your book too... Thanks to you :)
(and I can't help to think that I should convert all of my WordPress sites to Drupal. Since I knew CCK, Views, and Panels... Why on earth I'm still using WP? I don't think I'm using WP features that Drupal can't do anyway.)
Anyway, I just want to let you know that your RSS feed has inside, for example:
...
Luckily, there is a sweet module that helps you show your RSS feeds to your visitors. It’s called Syndication, and it’s another fine module from Moshe Weitzman. Here is how you set it up:
1.Download the Syndication module and install it like any normal Drupal module.
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Is this intentional? I hope not.
And if you manage to fix it, please let us know how to, so I can do that too, i.e. having teaser break and RSS syndication work well together.
Thanks Ben!
Thanks for the trick
Thank for this trick about how to activate syndication in drupal, i was planning to start a new drupal based site and looking for exactly what you have mentioned.
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