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[Michael]

Just a minor announcement to let you know we've created a new forum to show the new entries in our Blogs we host here on this site.  Everytime someone here makes a new Blog entry there will be a new topic posted in that forum.  Those new topics that get created will be created in Closed status so that you can go to the Blog entry itself to comment on it, that way there aren't two separate places for discussion of the particular Blog entry.

Right now we're only importing our own Blog's RSS feed, although we do also import the IPS Company Blog's feed in our IP.Board RSS News forum.  We may add more feeds later if we find any good ones, so keep checking back!

[riven3d]

thats great to hear. I often dont check the blogs, with them posting I will know there is a new entry

[Michael]

That's why I did this, the Blogs were getting very little activity, I want people to use them more than they have been.

[Michael]

Pretty much.  I just needed to turn the Blog setting "Override permissions for RSS feeds?" to Yes to enable this, otherwise I was getting an error topic created in that forum.  But setting up the RSS Import is the same as any other Import.

[Bitter]

I think this is a great step toward boosting activity to the blogs.



Bitter.

[AmgedOsman]

riven3d, on Oct 13 2008, 07:24 PM, said:

thats great to hear. I often dont check the blogs, with them posting I will know there is a new entry

yeah same here!

good job mike and thanks

[Depot]

Still having issues with my entries not showing Mike, and I've checked the settings as you suggested. I just made a new entry a few moments ago, and nothing.

[Michael]

I've still got the ticket open with IPS about this, I can't see why it's doing this for you either.

[RocketFoot]

I'd like to try this on my site also...but first, where do you find the RSS feed for your blogs?

[AndyF]

RocketFoot, on Nov 8 2008, 03:28 PM, said:

I'd like to try this on my site also...but first, where do you find the RSS feed for your blogs?

View the main blog page on your board. The link you need is "Syndicate all Blogs (RSS)"

You might have to adjust the settings a little bit (Blog > Settings > "Blog feature settings") , there's a couple of RSS related settings in that section

[RocketFoot]

AndyF, on Nov 8 2008, 10:38 AM, said:

RocketFoot, on Nov 8 2008, 03:28 PM, said:

I'd like to try this on my site also...but first, where do you find the RSS feed for your blogs?

View the main blog page on your board. The link you need is "Syndicate all Blogs (RSS)"

You might have to adjust the settings a little bit (Blog > Settings > "Blog feature settings") , there's a couple of RSS related settings in that section

Ah Ok...thanks Andy!  I found it.  Now to see if I can get this baby working!  LOL

[AndyF]

RocketFoot, on Nov 8 2008, 03:57 PM, said:

Ah Ok...thanks Andy!  I found it.  Now to see if I can get this baby working!  LOL

Click on the "Syndicate all Blogs (RSS)" list to see if its working, should give you a list of more or less what will be generated. Then you would just setup an RSS import feed (using that "Syndicate all Blogs (RSS)" as the feed link)

EDIT... Sorry to staff for turning this into a "support" type topic  

Edited by AndyF, 08 November 2008 - 04:07 PM.

[RocketFoot]

AndyF, on Nov 8 2008, 11:06 AM, said:

RocketFoot, on Nov 8 2008, 03:57 PM, said:

Ah Ok...thanks Andy!  I found it.  Now to see if I can get this baby working!  LOL

Click on the "Syndicate all Blogs (RSS)" list to see if its working, should give you a list of more or less what will be generated. Then you would just setup an RSS import feed (using that "Syndicate all Blogs (RSS)" as the feed link)

EDIT... Sorry to staff for turning this into a "support" type topic  

Thanks!  

I apologize also for asking in this topic, but hopefully this info will help other members down the road!

Edited by RocketFoot, 08 November 2008 - 04:39 PM.

[Michael]

Depot, on Nov 3 2008, 07:51 AM, said:

Still having issues with my entries not showing Mike, and I've checked the settings as you suggested. I just made a new entry a few moments ago, and nothing.

The issue, evidently, is that your blog doesn't allow guests to view it, can you try setting that to Yes?

[Martin]

"The board administrator has disabled Guest viewing.
This setting will have no effect. "

[AndyF]

m4rtin, on Nov 8 2008, 11:18 PM, said:

"The board administrator has disabled Guest viewing.
This setting will have no effect. "

I don't think that would have any effect for RSS. I know what you are saying (re: guest viewing) but I'm (90%) sure for RSS exporting that setting is ignored...

EDIT... Found it ... "Override permissions for RSS feeds? , Allow RSS feeds even if guests are not allowed to view the Blogs?"

@Depot, on your actual blog settings pop-up on here, have you checked "Allow others to syndicate your Blog?"  ?

Edited by AndyF, 09 November 2008 - 11:13 AM.

[Michael]

Well, this doesn't make any damn sense at all then.  Because that "The board administrator has disabled Guest viewing" setting isn't stopping my Blog, Martin's Blog, or Dee's blog from being syndicated.