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.
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Just asking!
Rss feed? really can we activate the syndication module?
Viewing the rss feed is that good idea.You have really an awesome sight.specially in telling the people about these ways.Because of this sight people would be educated enough on what to do , specially about the rss feed and the drupal.But i would like to ask if, is this safe? i mean do the interenet allowed this?I'm jus asking: ).
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Wow! Thank you! I usually needed to write down in my website a thing like that. Can i consider part of yourpost to my website?
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Another one of your very
Another one of your very helpful computer tutorials. Trilastin SR
fruitful information
All these information are fruitful for drupal sites,thanks Ben, can you explain solution of same problems in Joomla?
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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:
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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.