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Features / Usability


Adding newsfeeds.

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Like my last question things seemed impossible but not so. Anyway, my first page is the Wiki and I have setup the Articles feature. So, I thought I'd include a RSS feed. From admin I was able to create the news feeds for content on the site. That was easy enough to find in the manual.
To include outside newsfeeds, blogs that are syndicated, I thought and I could be wrong, that the place to include them is in the Articles section. So, I created a topic and then selected edit. In the body section, I wanted to add a news feed so I clicked on the link for rss feed, just above the body section. That gave me this in the body:

 User error
Plugin argument(s) missing:
  • id

I still am new question so that is less meaningful to me than I'd like. I used another CMS and that was my first intro to RSS feeds. What I discovered was that sites such as syndic8.com have a listing of feeds. Usually it consists of the web page where it exists and the URL that ends in rss or rdf, or something else. Thus I was hoping for a cut and paste intuitive setup for accomplsihing the addition of a newsfeed. Perhaps I go to a different area to add the newsfeeds. Or I make a different selection. I'm confused obviously, questionfrown.
When I locate a newsfeed that I want added somewhere, how do I add it to my site? and where do I add it? What information will be requested or needed for it to work?

On a related matter, I would like to find out how to take some content on a web page and syndicate it, making it available for CMS/wki sites. Is that hard to do?

Thanks,
Bruce

posts: 2881 United Kingdom

You need to add the Tiki RSS Id number after the id=

That can be got through the Admin feeds interface where you created it.

Damian