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.

[Mudvayne]

Originally Posted by 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

Its not required.. But it wud be better if u use this.. Its called rss auto discovery.. N its not available by default in stock code..

[hotwheels]

clicks installs.........still testing.

[hotwheels]

very nice.........works like a champ on 3.6

[Zia]

thnx..for feed back

[keithsan]

gotta dumb one for ya.

Images aren't working and they are installed in the images/misc folder.

But they are live links. I checked out the code seems to pointing correctly but then again i dont know much.

IF you want to see the empty boxes, here they are.(at the bottom)

http://www.thepennystockblog.com/bul..._rss_feeds.php


when things like this happens its usually my fault and a noob mistake...

[taydu]

anyone got problem with adding rss to MSN? It work fine for Google and Yahoo but MSN doesn't work.

[BigJimTheLug]

I've installed this on the forumhome template near the footer, but have modified the code slightly.

This is what I have to display things in the forumhome

<if condition="!in_array($forum[forumid], array(x,y,z))">


RSS Code here



</if>

Live demo Here

vb 3.6.8