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1 Mar 24, 2010 11:48    

My b2evolution Version: latest

Hi!

I am planning a website with multiple blogs and want to do the following:

I need an RSS-Feed which if clicked on the RSS-button shows a list of my blogs where the user can select which one he/she wants to subscribe to and then get one RSS feed with a combination of the selected blogs.

This would be the "ideal solution".

Another possibility would be (also I would really prefer the first one) to have the RSS-Feed-button lead to a feed with all my blogs combined in one feed (without the ability to choose which blogs to subscribe to).

Thanks in advance for your help.

greetings

Andylee

2 Mar 24, 2010 13:14

hi Andylee

I think i got something for you..

"The idea is to allow a visitor to subscribe to comments on only one post. That way they can follow the comments on what they're into instead of comments across your entire blog. Oh I built this on rss2 but you can probably do all flavors if you're into it."

Please see http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=5543

or go to plugins.b2evolution.net and search Post-Specific RSS feed

Good luck

3 Mar 24, 2010 16:32

the latter is easy... create an "aggregated blog" that retrieves posts from all blogs, so that rss feed of that blog will be the sum of all naturally... May be there might be even a shorter way.

for the first one, gotta have a look at that, its gotta be possible for sure, but cant say anything on top of my head

4 Mar 24, 2010 17:58

tilqicom wrote:

the latter is easy... create an "aggregated blog" that retrieves posts from all blogs, so that rss feed of that blog will be the sum of all naturally... May be there might be even a shorter way.

for the first one, gotta have a look at that, its gotta be possible for sure, but cant say anything on top of my head

I did know that, but there is a problem: the RSS-Feed will then link to the aggregated blog, not to the individual ones I want it to linkt to.

5 Mar 24, 2010 18:01

jmcausing wrote:

hi Andylee

I think i got something for you..

"The idea is to allow a visitor to subscribe to comments on only one post. That way they can follow the comments on what they're into instead of comments across your entire blog. Oh I built this on rss2 but you can probably do all flavors if you're into it."

Please see http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=5543

or go to plugins.b2evolution.net and search Post-Specific RSS feed

Good luck

I fear there are problems with the linked thread: the posts there are like nearly 5 years old, so they are about 0.xxx-version of b2evolution and might not work anymore.
Further, I don't want to have post-specific RSS, but blog-specific (as it already is, but with the ability to check which blogs to combine into one Feed).

6 Mar 24, 2010 18:08

The individual posts in the aggregated feed should point to the posts permalink on it's "home" blog.

You could setup a form to allow "pick your blogs", abuse a stubfile, and setup a dummy aggregate blog based on "requested blogs", but it'd be a smidge of faffing about

¥

7 Mar 24, 2010 19:24

Andylee wrote:

tilqicom wrote:

the latter is easy... create an "aggregated blog" that retrieves posts from all blogs, so that rss feed of that blog will be the sum of all naturally... May be there might be even a shorter way.

for the first one, gotta have a look at that, its gotta be possible for sure, but cant say anything on top of my head

I did know that, but there is a problem: the RSS-Feed will then link to the aggregated blog, not to the individual ones I want it to linkt to.

ok than, here is a workaround;

You know the "category list" widget.. it lists the categories of a blog and allows you to display whichever you want with selecting from checkboxes, and it also has an option "display blogs if blog is aggregated".

But there is one catch, The blogs does not have checkboxes and i dont know how to make them selectable all together... so; to display "all" the posts from that blog, there is gotta be a one main cat that hold all the maincat and subcats.

If those blogs have too much categories it will grow the list huge..And
So i am gonna assume you have 2 blogs, and a 3th that aggregates the other 3; and you have a category list.

Blog 1 > Blog_1_all > Shoes - Dress - ... > women - men - ...
Blog 2 > Blog_2_all > Dogs - Fishes - ... > ...

You will get a category list like :

/* [ ] represents checkbox */

Blog1
[ ✓ ]Blog_1_all
-- [ ] Shoes
----[ ] Women
------[ ]High heel
----[ ] Men
[ ] Dress

Blog2
[ ✓ ]Blog_2_all
-- [ ] Dogs
----[ ] Huskies
------[ ] Puppies
-- [ ] Fishes

So if the users selects blog_1_all & blog_2_all, he/she will get sth like this;

http://www.domain.com/aggregated_blog.php?catsel[]=5&catsel[]=226

If selects only one; will get one

http://www.domain.com/aggregated_blog.php?catsel[]=5

and you can simply add

http://www.domain.com/aggregated_blog.php?catsel[]=5&catsel[]=226?tempskin=_rss2


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