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[timpennington Friend timpenningtonJoin date: May 2009Posts: 242Downloads:33Uploads:14 Thanks: 12 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#694014

I want to get an RSS feed from my Home Page of all new articles on the page.

It’s been a struggle for me. I’m not even sure if I set up the feed display correctly, but I can’t seem to get it to work right.

I created another page (hidden from main menu) of all “Featured” articles and when I use the RSS feed from it, it usually only shows much older articles or ones from the uncategorized category (even though I only have 5 categories I want to show, and uncategorized is not one)

http://goturpin.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=featured

Any help on correctly setting up a page that shows just “New” or “Featured” articles that would show the latest?

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#694097

Hi @timpennington,

Please navigate to admin >>> Extensions >>> Module Manager >>> Syndication Feeds >>> enable this module >>> It will appear right above your copyright text in front-end, just click the link and you will see it work fine.

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#750268

Hi @timpennington,

Please navigate to admin >>> Extensions >>> Module Manager >>> Syndication Feeds >>> enable this module >>> It will appear right above your copyright text in front-end, just click the link and you will see it work fine.

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#694581

Ok, I did

However the link is not generating any content from the home page, which is the new articles appearing:

http://goturpin.com/index.php?format=feed&type=rss

All it gives me is:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<!– generator=”Joomla! – Open Source Content Management” –>
<rss version=”2.0″ xmlns:atom=”http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom”>
<channel>
<title>Welcome to the Home of the Turpin Athletics department</title>
<description><!]></description>
<link>http://goturpin.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=8&Itemid=113</link&gt;
<lastBuildDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2015 07:19:08 -0400</lastBuildDate>
<generator>Joomla! – Open Source Content Management</generator>
<atom:link rel=”self” type=”application/rss+xml” href=”http://goturpin.com/index.php?format=feed&type=rss”/>
<language>en-gb</language>
<managingEditor>timpennington@fuse.net (Turpin Athletics)</managingEditor>
</channel>
</rss>

There is no stories that should be filtering here from the news content being added.

Any advise?

[timpennington Friend timpenningtonJoin date: May 2009Posts: 242Downloads:33Uploads:14 Thanks: 12 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#750302

Ok, I did

However the link is not generating any content from the home page, which is the new articles appearing:

http://goturpin.com/index.php?format=feed&type=rss

All it gives me is:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<!– generator=”Joomla! – Open Source Content Management” –>
<rss version=”2.0″ xmlns:atom=”http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom”>
<channel>
<title>Welcome to the Home of the Turpin Athletics department</title>
<description><!]></description>
<link>http://goturpin.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=8&Itemid=113</link&gt;
<lastBuildDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2015 07:19:08 -0400</lastBuildDate>
<generator>Joomla! – Open Source Content Management</generator>
<atom:link rel=”self” type=”application/rss+xml” href=”http://goturpin.com/index.php?format=feed&type=rss”/>
<language>en-gb</language>
<managingEditor>timpennington@fuse.net (Turpin Athletics)</managingEditor>
</channel>
</rss>

There is no stories that should be filtering here from the news content being added.

Any advise?

[Adam M Moderator Adam MJoin date: May 2014Posts: 5159Downloads:33Uploads:66 Thanks: 95 Thanked: 1271 times in 1235 posts]

#694770

Hi @timpennington,

Here’s the deal. It’s because you have some articles in category Medicine or Biochemistry but those category are trashed, therefore when you choose in Menus >>> Top Navigation >>> Home >>> display article from category News (and its sub-categories) but there are no article available.

You can try to temporary assign any article to category News then recheck.

[Adam M Moderator Adam MJoin date: May 2014Posts: 5159Downloads:33Uploads:66 Thanks: 95 Thanked: 1271 times in 1235 posts]

#750404

Hi @timpennington,

Here’s the deal. It’s because you have some articles in category Medicine or Biochemistry but those category are trashed, therefore when you choose in Menus >>> Top Navigation >>> Home >>> display article from category News (and its sub-categories) but there are no article available.

You can try to temporary assign any article to category News then recheck.

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#695098

Thanks, Adam.

I see what you are saying; I assigned a story to NEWS and when I hit the RSS, it did appear.

Most of my stories are assigned under FALL category; is there a way to change the settings so that I can swap FALL for NEWS in the Menus–Top Navigation–Home and have it show FALL and make it work? I tried that and my home page came up basically empty.

Or, since I label all new articles as “Featured,” is there a way to create a page where it shows just the latest “Featured” articles, and I can grab the RSS from that?

Thanks for trouble shooting this for me

[timpennington Friend timpenningtonJoin date: May 2009Posts: 242Downloads:33Uploads:14 Thanks: 12 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#750459

Thanks, Adam.

I see what you are saying; I assigned a story to NEWS and when I hit the RSS, it did appear.

Most of my stories are assigned under FALL category; is there a way to change the settings so that I can swap FALL for NEWS in the Menus–Top Navigation–Home and have it show FALL and make it work? I tried that and my home page came up basically empty.

Or, since I label all new articles as “Featured,” is there a way to create a page where it shows just the latest “Featured” articles, and I can grab the RSS from that?

Thanks for trouble shooting this for me

[Adam M Moderator Adam MJoin date: May 2014Posts: 5159Downloads:33Uploads:66 Thanks: 95 Thanked: 1271 times in 1235 posts]

#695336

Hi @timpennington,

1. I navigate to Menus >>> Top Navigation >>> Home >>> change category from News to Fall Sports and you can see news feed now.

2. If you want to display featured articles only, just create new menu item with type Articles Featured

[Adam M Moderator Adam MJoin date: May 2014Posts: 5159Downloads:33Uploads:66 Thanks: 95 Thanked: 1271 times in 1235 posts]

#750577

Hi @timpennington,

1. I navigate to Menus >>> Top Navigation >>> Home >>> change category from News to Fall Sports and you can see news feed now.

2. If you want to display featured articles only, just create new menu item with type Articles Featured

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