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Creating category-specific RSS feeds

September 14, 2009 11:44pm

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  • #1 / Sep 14, 2009 11:44pm

    Doy

    38 posts

    I have a client who is working with a mobi site company, who is asking me to give them separate rss feeds for dining, activities, shopping and the like for a visitors bureau site.

    All of these items are under one weblog, called “Businesses,” and are separated out by category.

    I’d ready a brief boyink article saying I could just link to the category by rsslink/C/ID, but it’s still pulling in all the entries from the businesses section.

    I need to create feeds that will week out all but the specific category I’m looking for, and I haven’t found a tutorial or some sort of guidance on how to do that.

    Any help?

  • #2 / Sep 15, 2009 1:19am

    John Henry Donovan

    12339 posts

    Doy,

    You would create your feed template then just add a category parameter to the weblog entries tag within the templates. Gonna move this one to the ‘How to’ forum for you.

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

<?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>{exp:xml_encode}{weblog_name}{/exp:xml_encode}</title>
    <link>{weblog_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" dynamic_start="on" disable="member_data|trackbacks" category="2"}
    <item>
      <title>{exp:xml_encode}{title}{/exp:xml_encode}</title>
      <link>{title_permalink=site/index}</link>
      <guid>{title_permalink=site/index}#When:{gmt_entry_date format="%H:%i:%sZ"}</guid>
      <description>{exp:xml_encode}{summary}{body}{/exp:xml_encode}</description>
      <dc:subject>{exp:xml_encode}{categories backspace="1"}{category_name}, {/categories}{/exp:xml_encode}</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}

  • #3 / Sep 15, 2009 7:29am

    Doy

    38 posts

    You know…I’d done that, and in Google Reader it kept grabbing everything, but I just looked at it in the Safari RSS reader and it worked fine.

    Thanks for the help!

  • #4 / Sep 15, 2009 7:53am

    Doy

    38 posts

    One last thing, and this is frustrating…I can’t get my calendar rss to show any entries…

    Here’s the code:

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

<?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>{exp:xml_encode}{weblog_name}{/exp:xml_encode}</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}" rdf="off" dynamic_start="on" disable="member_data|trackbacks" show_future_entries="yes"}
    <item>
      <title>{exp:xml_encode}{title}{/exp:xml_encode}</title>
      <link>{title_permalink=calendar/detail}</link>
      <guid>{title_permalink=calendar/detail}#When:{gmt_entry_date format="%H:%i:%sZ"}</guid>
      <description>{exp:xml_encode}{event-date}{event-info}{/exp:xml_encode}</description>
      <dc:subject>{exp:xml_encode}{categories backspace="1"}{category_name}, {/categories}{/exp:xml_encode}</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}

    I’ve checked this every way I know how and the feed just won’t show any entries…always says it’s empty.

    Is there a setting I’m missing?

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