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I need guidance in setting up RSS feeds for my EE site. I really have no clue where to start, and I’m not finding the EE documentation very explanatory for newbies.

Here’s my EE setup:

• One main site and two sub-domains using the classic method

• In Weblog Management, I have 8 weblogs setup for each of the three sites. The one I’m most interested in is the news feed for each. They are named “news”, “subdomain1_news”, and “subdomain2_news” appropriately.

• I the “site” template group (which I think was installed by default by EE), I see atom and rss_2.0.

• Build 1.6.0

I’m sure the RSS Template needs some configuration for my own weblogs, but I’m not clear on what needs to change. I tired substituting “news” in for master_weblog_name; no luck.

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

Appreciate your help!

Sorry to say this, but you wont get any official tech support for setting up your site like that.  That is an unsupported method to use EE.  Hopefully somebody in the community who has done this will chime in.

True, but I see that others have done it before.

I’d just like to know why I can’t get the primary news feed to pull up. I am checking by going to Google Reader and typing in the URL to my site. It’s returning w/ no results.

Maybe it is working. If I typed the direct rss link in my Firefox3 address bar, it pulled up.

My next question is, if I’m on the home page (template home/index) which contains the “news” webblog, shouldn’t Google Reader and Firefox3 be picking up on the feed? In Firefox’s case, putting the feed icon in the address bar?

My rss template file (site/rss_2.0) is not in the same template group as my site index (home/index). I wouldn’t expect that to matter, but what do I know? 😊

Thanks for your help!

If you have it in your meta data then it should.

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS Feed" href="/site/rss" />

I’m slowly putting these pieces of the puzzle together.  😉 I did exactly as you decribed:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="{path={my_template_group}/rss_2.0}" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom" href="{path={my_template_group}/atom}" />

Replacing {my_template_group} with my own template group names. It’s now detecting the feed! Sweet!

Thanks Grantmx!

P.S. Although some of this is just a basic understand, I wish the EE documentation was a little more thorough, especially when you see the same posts on the message board. Guess that’s what user notes are for ... when I’m knowledgeable enough to post there! LOL!

No-problemo! 😊