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How to get blogs in new posts search
Many people are concerned over the lack of integration of the blog system with the main forum software. I see many posts asking "how do I get my blogs to show up in new posts?"
Basically you need to utilise the blog RSS feed and get it to post a blog as a post. This is how to do it. From your admincp - RSS Feed Manager Add a new RSS Feed Feed enabled: Yes URL of feed: http://www.yoursite.com/blogs/feed.rss Check every: 30 mins Feeds to fetch: 0 Username: choose or make a new one - blog bot or something Forum: chose an existing one or make a new forum and select options as you see fit, or see below. Allow Smilies: yes Display Signature: no convert html to bb code: yes Title template: {rss:title} Body template: PHP Code:
Thread action delay 1 Close thread after delay: yes Making a new forum When making a new forum for your blog posts, chose the setting your want for other users, but make sure of the following: Act as forum: yes Index New Posts in Search Engine: yes Forum is open: yes You can chose whether the forum is hidden or visible, but make sure the username you specified above is in a group that can post to this forum. Permissions I didn't want others to post so they have no post permissions. To get to the blog, they click on the link in the post and get taken there directly. To be able to see the posts they must have. Can View Forum: yes Can View Thread Content: yes Can View Others' Threads: yes Can Search Forums: yes A working version is at www.midlandsweather.org.uk My blog forum (so that you can see an example of the posts made is at www.midlandsweather.org.uk/mwf-blog Please click ***install*** if you use this. |
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great mod! when the 3.7.0 goes gold i'll install this for sure ... ;)
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just to let you know its not exclusive to 3.7 it also works on 3.6.8
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Awesome! I have been looking for something to alert members of a new blog.
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This is a mere workaround, it won't solve the problem
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This is an excellent add on, if I can get it to work. Number one complaint at my site, others not know of a blog post :)
May be I'm taking your instruction too literally :) This is what I have in my "Body Template" PHP Code:
I'm still learning.... so pardon me for my ignorance :) I get the following when I do a preview: XML Error: Empty document at Line 2 I hope you can help :) |
Your blog RSS url or "URL of FEED", in your case, should be http://yourwebsite.com/forums/blog_external.php
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BINGO!!!! Thank you, works!!! :)
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installed, working perfect.
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