| Syndicating content and promoting breast cancer awareness |
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Joomla has a problem with syndication, it is limited to the front page. I found a very nice component for solving this, which also helps to promote Breast Cancer Awareness. The BCA RSS Syndicator installs very cleanly into Joomla 1.5.7 and is simple to use. As you can see at the top of the HaveAByte Blog, there is an RSS 2.0 link. Unlike the built-in Joomla component, you can click which sections you want to Syndicate. It helps you make buttons, and provides the URLs to the feed, but it does not help you to place them anywhere on your site. That is up to you. So, I simply posted them into the Section header for the ol' blog here. If I had one criticism, it would be the complaint that it is a bit cumbersome to have it generate an image, download it to my desktop, re-upload it into Joomla via the Media Manager, then edit a page and add the image and link to the feed myself. It seems like it could easily generate the image, store it on the server in one of the image folders, and generate the ready-to-paste HTML. The BCA RSS Syndicator is quick, simple, and it's pretty rare to tweak your website configuration and promote a worthy cause at the same time! HaveAByte now has a NewsRoom for customers to report on server issues, maintenance and downtime, upgrades and similar things. Link it into Google Reader, a Firefox Live Bookmark, or with whatever your favorite RSS reading application to get fast updates to HaveAByte goings-on. UPDATE: For some unknown reason the BCA RSS Syndicator stopped working, causing the feed links to simply show the same page. I've removed it until I can find a fix. If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear from you, but it's not a huge priority so I'm just disabling it for now.
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| Last Updated on Saturday, 17 January 2009 15:24 |



