May 22 2008

Getting an RSS feed onto your blog

Published by Mike Temple at 11:52 am under RSS feeds

Firstly, why would you want to do this?

I have the BBC news sent directly to my blog and it is updates automatically - so no work for me.

http://marlett-choi.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/06/22/rss_logo2.jpg

There should be a plugin called Aggr which makes this task really easy and it seems to have now disappeared - hence the reason my feed was not working.

To work around this, you need to use a third party (free) site called Pageflakes.

  • sign up for Pageflakes
  • if you are very visual, you can use this to read all your feeds
  • you can import these feeds from another reader if you want to try and see how it looks
  • there’s a menu button (literally a button)
  • in there you will see on the LHS  ‘add RSS feed’
  • click on this and ad the rss feed for the site you want to use
  • you can choose to import all your feeds
  • add your opml file where is asks
  • you get this file by clicking the ‘export’ option in your reader
  • in google, it says ‘manage my subscriptions’
  • this will bring all your feeds in for you to see and use
  • choose the feed you want to add to your blog
  • click on the email logout the top of the feed box
  • choose ‘get flake’
  • copy the code
  • note the page will need to be set to public in order to work
  • paste the code into a post using the ‘code’ tab or
  • paste it into a sidebar widget box
  • voila

check out my BBC news feed


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One Response to “Getting an RSS feed onto your blog”

  1. [...] puedas añadir feeds de RSS en las entradas que puedan actualizarse automáticamente. Sin embargo, la alternativa descrita por Mike Temple la encuentro más eficiente ya que no depende de instalación de una extensión y puede utilizarse [...]

    Several plug-ins for WordPress that facilitate you can add RSS feeds at the entrances that can be updated automatically.
    However, the alternative described by Mike Temple find more efficient since it does not depend on installing an extension and can be used in any system that allows you to insert java script
    This strategy requires open an account at the home known as Pageflakes. The next step is to click on the button “menu”:

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