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Hi,

I did not know where to place these questions, so…

When I move blogs entries from one blog to another, technically closing down the blog they were moved from; what happens to all the RSS feeds to the entries? Are they moved along with the entry as the comments are? Are RSS feeds tied to the blog or the entries that were in the blog?

socaprice

It depends if the URL’s to the blog entries change. If they do you’ll have to update your RSS template to the new URL’s.

Hi socaprice ,

As Rob mentions an RSS feed can exist in nay template group in any template. It’s where it grabs the entries from matters. So for example if you delete the Channel that the RSS feed is pulling entries from then that feed will now be empty.

If you just change the location of the entries that the feed links to then you just need to change your feed template.

Does that help?

Not sure it helps as I am not familiar with the way the RSS or ATOM works… you mention below:

If you just change the location of the entries that the feed links to then you just need to change your feed template.

We have closed down about 9 of our blogs and consolidated them into one new blog called, “newBlog”. Blog1, Blog2, Blog3 ... Blog9 all had their own RSS and ATOM templates. I will just work with RSS for now ATOM looks too complicated; in the RSS template for the each of the old blogs if I changed the code at the top from this:

{assign_variable:master_weblog_name="Blog1"}
{exp:rss:feed weblog="{master_weblog_name}"}

to this:

{assign_variable:master_weblog_name="newBlog"}
{exp:rss:feed weblog="{master_weblog_name}"}

would that make all the visitors that linked via RSS connect to the “newBlog” future entries?
Let me know if that is the correct way to do it, please.

Now IF that is the correct way to do it, that means I will need to keep all the old blogs existing on the site.

I have heard about aliases in other CMS, such as Ektron. Does EE 1.x allow for aliases? That way I could just create the aliases and have them point to the newBLog and also the newBLog/RSS and get rid of all the other dead blogs.

socaprice

You said:

would that make all the visitors that linked via RSS connect to the “newBlog” future entries?

That’s the easiest way to do things.

As far as the dead blogs go, change the template that the older RSS feeds were landing on to go to the right page, or build a link that takes the url_title and gives them a We moved.. click here kind of link.

Make sense?

As far as the dead blogs go, change the template that the older RSS feeds were landing on to go to the right page, or build a link that takes the url_title and gives them a We moved.. click here kind of link.

I thought that is what I did by changing variable up at the top? Is there another way that you are speaking about?

Also, that would still mean I have to keep those blogs in existence. They are cluttering up my templates area, can confuse the bloggers when they go to place entries and it just looks plain messy. 😊

I don’t know much about how I am going to

build a link that takes the url_title and gives them a We moved.. click here kind of link.

without keeping the blogs there, that is why I was wondering about url aliases.

socaprice

Hi socaprice,

Sue is saying that if you had 9 RSS templates/URLs, each pointing to their respective channel, you could alter those templates to redirect to the NewBlog template. This may not be the way you had your templates setup; if so, don’t worry about it. Changing the channel parameter to the new channel, and ensuring that new feed works, should be all you need to do.

Ok, I just wanted a way to remove those blog groups from the site, without having to keep them there, and open, just so the urls to their templates with the changed “weblog” (not channel, not version 2.x) parameters would work.

Socaprice

Makes sense. Let us know if you need further assistance. Thanks!