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AlpineZone · #1 11-28-2012, 01:20 PM

Hey guys,

I run a skiing forum and community. I have a content side of the site (news articles, gear reviews, etc.) that is all based on Wordpress; and then my forum is VB4.

Here is what I want to do. I publish news articles on Wordpress. However, many of the forum members never see these news articles becaues they don't visit "that side" of the site.

I want to create a new forum called "news articles" and essentially just feed in the news articles to vbulletin from my wordpress RSS feed.

HOWEVER, I don't want the full article to display, (I think Google will ding you for duplicate content) - just the title and the first two or three sentences with a link - so that users can see and comment (or not).

Alternatively an RSS widget would be OK too but I don't want a sidebar, I would need something horizontal or similar.

kh99 · #2 11-28-2012, 01:38 PM

You can set up to post an RSS feed to a forum. Go to RSS Feeds > Add New RSS Feed. It's limited to posting each item in the feed as either a separate thread or an announcement, but otherwise it sounds like what you want.

AlpineZone · #3 11-28-2012, 01:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kh99

You can set up to post an RSS feed to a forum. Go to RSS Feeds > Add New RSS Feed. It's limited to posting each item in the feed as either a separate thread or an announcement, but otherwise it sounds like what you want.

Yeah< I know about that, but I don't want to post the full article, just the first 2 or three sentances. Is there a way to do that ?

kh99 · #4 11-28-2012, 02:00 PM

No, I don't see any way to do that without modifying the code in includes/cron/rssposter.php. Is there any way to configure wordpress to limit the text in a feed?

AlpineZone · #5 11-28-2012, 03:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kh99

No, I don't see any way to do that without modifying the code in includes/cron/rssposter.php. Is there any way to configure wordpress to limit the text in a feed?

Yeah, that was my 2nd attempt, to see how to do that. I like how the VB RSS feed you can just add a parameter to the feed to limit the characters. Doesn't seem quite as easy with WP

Thanks!

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