Derek Jones’s RSS feeds look nice an pretty. Mine don’t. I tried adding CDATA per this thread, to no avail. Any other tips?
I’m viewing the feed using Google Homepage, in case that matters.
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Derek Jones’s RSS feeds look nice an pretty. Mine don’t. I tried adding CDATA per this thread, to no avail. Any other tips?
I’m viewing the feed using Google Homepage, in case that matters.
#2 / Aug 02, 2010 1:58am
Geoff,
Have you got a link to your feed. What in particular do you feel isn’t looking right for you? Use screenshots where appropriate.
#3 / Aug 11, 2010 1:26pm
Thanks for your reply, John. The feed is http://www.innovate-educate.org/blog/rss-feed. I can’t seem to get the line breaks to carry through to the reader. I would prefer that the entry doesn’t appear in one large paragraph.
#4 / Aug 11, 2010 11:50pm
Geoff, there is a setting you can change for your RSS feed to allow line breaks to work like they should.
http://expressionengine.com/wiki/How_can_I_use_HTML_to_format_my_RSS_feed/
Does that help?
#5 / Aug 12, 2010 11:26am
Thanks for the tip, Sue, but the text still comes through in one paragraph (in Google Homepage and Google Reader, at least). The title doesn’t come through either, but it did once. With that, I’m not going to worry about it any longer. 😉
#6 / Aug 12, 2010 11:33am
On that note, the Atom feed works beautifully. I’m posting my RSS code here just in case you might see something that I’m doing wrong. This site is running 1.6.9. Thanks.
{assign_variable:master_weblog_name="blog"}
{exp:rss:feed weblog="{master_weblog_name}" show_expired="yes"}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="{encoding}"?>
<rss version="2.0"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/"
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/">
<channel>
<title><![CDATA[{site_name}]]></title>
<link>{site_url}</link>
<description>{weblog_description}</description>
<dc:language>{weblog_language}</dc:language>
<dc:creator>{email}</dc:creator>
<dc:rights>Copyright {gmt_date format="%Y"}</dc:rights>
<dc:date>{gmt_date format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%i:%s%Q"}</dc:date>
<admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://expressionengine.com/" >
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{master_weblog_name}" limit="10" rdf="off" disable="member_data|trackbacks" show_expired="yes"}
<item>
<title><![CDATA[{title}]]></title>
<link>{title_permalink=blog/article}</link>
<guid>{title_permalink=blog/article}#When:{gmt_entry_date format="%H:%i:%sZ"}</guid>
<description><![CDATA[{blog-copy}]]></description>
<dc:subject><![CDATA[{categories backspace="1"}{category_name}, {/categories}]]></dc:subject>
<dc:date>{gmt_entry_date format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%i:%s%Q"}</dc:date>
</item>
{/exp:weblog:entries}
</channel>
</rss>
{/exp:rss:feed}#7 / Aug 12, 2010 8:27pm
Geoff, looks like you’re making progress with this? The feed you linked to above is showing up normally in Firefox and Google Reader for me.
#8 / Aug 13, 2010 7:41pm
Yes, I guess it was a cache issue. Thanks for the help.
Question answered.
#9 / Aug 14, 2010 4:24pm
Hi Geoff,
Good stuff. Please post back if you have further questions or problems.
Cheers
Greg