Add Feed To MyYahoo, Msn, Google & Blogline Button In Every Forum

Actually its my first release in vbulletin.org . Its not a hack even. Just a template modification to provide Rss feed to forums user. Since last few month we have been searching it for many place. Didn't find any. After our try finally we came into a shape. A working shape. Also find some also looking for it.So just shareing it.

Hope Some one may find it helpful.

Note:
This modification can be called as an extension of Show Forum Icon In Each Forum, hack by Wayne Luke. This must be installed in your forum. That will show ur all forums feed url & this url u will be needed later on. Now made a list all of ur feed urls.

How To Use This Modification:
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1.Rss/Rss2 Mustbe enabled to use this modification.
2.Rss Auto discovery should be enabled for better out put. So that search bot could detect ur feed.
3.Show Forum Icon In Each Forum, hack by Wayne Luke, must be installed.

How To Enable Rss Auto Discovery:
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Source: http://www.google.com/webmasters/bot.html

Question:

How do I add my feed to the search results for Google's personalized homepage and Google Reader?

Answer:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Your Feed Title" href="http://www.mysite.com/rss.xml" />

1.You will be needed a rss.xml file. You can generate it using any source (like i use www.rorweb.com). Be sure that during create the list u've listed all of ur feed url (previously u have saved it!!). Generate the list copy-paste it in note pad, save as it as "rss.xml"
2.Put that rss.xml file in your root directory.This should get the location www.mysite.com/rss.xml

Its now time to modify/edit ur template :

1. Adding autoDiscovery:

Open ur headincludes template.

Put at the very top of all code:

  <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Your Feed Title" href="http://www.mysite.com/rss.xml" />

2. Adding My yahoo, My Msn, Google & Bloglines button to your forum for each catagory:

Open FORUMDISPLAY template.

Find for:

$footer

Add above:

<div align="center"><a href="http://e.my.yahoo.com/config/cstore?.opt=content&.url=http://www.mysite.com/forum/external.php?type=rss2&forumids=$foruminfo[forumid]" target="_blank"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/addyahoo.gif" alt="Add mysite To Your Yahoo" height="15" width="80" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.google.com/ig/add?feedurl=http://www.mysite.com/forum/external.php?type=rss2&forumids=$foruminfo[forumid]" target="_blank"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/addgoogle.gif" alt="Add mysite To Your Google" height="15" width="80" border="0"></a> <a href="http://my.msn.com/addtomymsn.armx?id=rss&ut=http://www.mysite.com/forum/external.php?type=rss2&forumids=$foruminfo[forumid]" target="_blank"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/addmsn.gif" alt="Add mysite To Your MSN" height="15" width="80" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.mysite.com/forum/external.php?type=rss2&forumids=$foruminfo[forumid]" target="_blank"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/addblog.gif" alt="Add mysite To Your Blog" height="15" width="80" border="0"></a></div>

Don't forget to replace mysite.com with ur site.

3. You can put can xml button in ur home page that linked with ur www.mysite.com/rss.xml

4. You will find related image in the zip folder. Just upload these to /images/misc directory. This button we used in our site, just make the button a bit tiny . Feel free to change them as per ur demand. We tried to add original & modified button.

Description:

If any one interested to provide rss feature to there user or any external reader. Using this button user (registerd/unregisterd in forum) can have the rss/xml feed in thee yahoo, msn, google & bloglines page by using there yahoo id, msn id or gmail id or any other blog service.(example: Blogline, etc.)

Optional Feature:
Also the feed can be modified for rss1, atom using www.feedburner.com ( I guess feedburner is the best service) and can serch there feed in many place. Also u can put advertise or any info that will help to increase site traffic. During generating rss.xml plz put key word as per ur need, that will help search engine to detect ur feed. There are some service who provide add for rss feed (may be simalr to PPC system). After finished use any ping service to let the feed finder/bloge service know about your feed.

Ping service:
http://www.pingomatic.com
http://www.pingoat.com

*If any one need any more feature like : add podcast button or any other blog service button feel free to contact.

*Live Demo & for more resource : http://www.golpo.net

This Modification is totally free. And its first release in vb. So plz dont remove the copyright text.


To stay tuned about update plz click Install.

Any kind of modification is warmly wellcome. Also please let everybody know about your modification.

[Zia]

Originally Posted by silurius

Right, maybe there's a prob with Wayne's hack or with fps_external, not sure. I'm currently troubleshooting over in Wayne's thread and will resume troubleshooting here once that's resolved. Still open to input if you have any.

did u modify that any way? whats that for?

[silurius]

Originally Posted by Zia

did u modify that any way? whats that for?

Just followed everything to the letter, so far as I could tell. What's what for?

[Mudvayne]

@silurius Wayne's modification is too easy.. Just a template edit.. a plugin add.. n a file upload.. Whr u got stuck?

[silurius]

Originally Posted by Shuvo

@silurius Wayne's modification is too easy.. Just a template edit.. a plugin add.. n a file upload.. Whr u got stuck?

Like I said, I don't think the problem is necessarily due to Wayne's stuff. Guess I should move/copy my troubleshooting post over to the fps_external hack thread.

[Mudvayne]

We r using FPS_external too.. Kevin got an update.. Did u done tht?

[silurius]

Originally Posted by Shuvo

We r using FPS_external too.. Kevin got an update.. Did u done tht?

By 'update', do you mean making the change in this post after installing this 3.5 version? This is what I did.

[Zia]

gez so...this template change works perfectly in our site bro...

theres bug abt Pubdate in fps external.php, hope this one will be solved in next release

[mkdevo]

Originally Posted by Zia

allow me to assist u..Hope u allready have installed "show rss icon in every forum by wane luke"
u wanna generate an rss.xml file that include all the rss url of ur board..

what we do:

-i manually collect all the rss url of all forum
-went to www.feedburner.com , n burned all the url,modify it as necessary
-collect all the burned url from feedburner.
-Open http://www.rorweb.com/servlet/roredit
- put ur site's name = Klik Enter.
-now u will see the page, u put all the burned feed url here
- u r done.

copy n paste the file rss.xml
its done.

Okay. Now why use feedburner.
feedburner makes the urls suitable for rss1,rss2,xml,atom , whoever try to feed it...it will be fit for his rss reader/atom/blogentry


Hope It s the answer of ur question.

Thnkx.

btw u can check the uses of it.

zia - thank you for the tutorial. i've followed it and got this going. however, when i click on the icon at the bottom of a forum, it seems to add feeds from ALL forums into google/yahoo/etc, not just the current forum. any ideas?

[Mudvayne]

@mkdevo.. u did the template edit as like i said? could u plz provide a link? Or I said that here again..

In ur FORUMDISPLAY template..

Find for:

$footer

Add above:

<div align="center"><a href="http://e.my.yahoo.com/config/cstore?.opt=content&.url=http://www.mysite.com/forum/external.php?type=rss2&forumids=$foruminfo[forumid]" target="_blank"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/addyahoo.gif" alt="Add mysite To Your Yahoo" height="15" width="80" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.google.com/ig/add?feedurl=http://www.mysite.com/forum/external.php?type=rss2&forumids=$foruminfo[forumid]" target="_blank"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/addgoogle.gif" alt="Add mysite To Your Google" height="15" width="80" border="0"></a> <a href="http://my.msn.com/addtomymsn.armx?id=rss&ut=http://www.mysite.com/forum/external.php?type=rss2&forumids=$foruminfo[forumid]" target="_blank"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/addmsn.gif" alt="Add mysite To Your MSN" height="15" width="80" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.mysite.com/forum/external.php?type=rss2&forumids=$foruminfo[forumid]" target="_blank"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/addblog.gif" alt="Add mysite To Your Blog" height="15" width="80" border="0"></a></div>

make sure that mysite changes with ur own site..

[SaN-DeeP]

do we really require to put this line in headinclude template ?
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Your Feed Title" href="http://www.mysite.com/rss.xml" />

Isnt this available by default in stock code