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Hello,
BL3 is RSS Feeds available. There is no description in the documentation how this will be integrated on the pages and in the albums. I have activated the function in BL Settings. What else do I have to do.
LeMa
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Just enable it. Viewers can then subscribe to your site using their favorite RSS reader.
In the reader I subscribed to, I just had to enter the site url and it detected the feed: (yoursite.com/feed)
Rod
Just a user with way too much time on his hands.
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ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site
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Thank you
LeMa
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Rod, Ben, Matthew - I love the ability to use an RSS feed. I do have a question though. I looked at my feed and see images in various albums but I was wondering if there is a way to limit the feed to a specific album, or does it just pick up the last updates to the entire website?
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I think it's the entire site other than hidden albums. But Ben will need to verify that.
Rod
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ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site
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The main feed is for the entire site.
You may also provide album-specific feeds. These are:
site.com/set/album/feed
By which I mean, put "/feed" at the end of any album URL.
As the main site feed is what's in the head, though, you'll need to provide your own buttons for this. I'm planning to do a feature about RSS feeds soon; hopefully this weekend, if I can get away from support or feeding myself long enough to make it happen.
For a generic RSS feed, you can put this Markdown into any of the copy sections for your album or album template:
[Album RSS Feed](./feed/)EDIT:
The striked-out sentence is misinformation. Albums do present their own album-specific feed in the head, and so it should not be required to create your own feed link for the album. I mean, you can if you want to, but the feed should be discoverable in the usual ways without it.
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thanks Matt - I look forward to your feature. Stay safe!
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Edited above. The trailing slash -- "/feed/", not "/feed" -- is important.
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ahhhhhh
Rod
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ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site
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Behind: "site.com/set/album/feed" you have to add ".php" to make it actually work in the RSS reader
The part: "[Album RSS Feed](./feed/)" makes no difference , not that I noted...
The main feed is for the entire site.
You may also provide album-specific feeds. These are:
site.com/set/album/feed
By which I mean, put "/feed" at the end of any album URL.
As the main site feed is what's in the head, though, you'll need to provide your own buttons for this. I'm planning to do a feature about RSS feeds soon; hopefully this weekend, if I can get away from support or feeding myself long enough to make it happen.
For a generic RSS feed, you can put this Markdown into any of the copy sections for your album or album template:
[Album RSS Feed](./feed/)
Last edited by dbfoto (2020-05-04 00:17:46)
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Behind: "site.com/set/album/feed" you have to add ".php" to make it actually work in the RSS reader
The part: "[Album RSS Feed](./feed/)" makes no difference , not that I noted...
That might be a quirk of your specific reader. I haven't had to do that in any of the ones I've tried.
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I was also mistaken above, when I said that albums would have the Site feed in their head. We're working on some RSS feed improvements for our first update to Backlight 3, and I can see that albums do present their own feed in the head, and non-album pages then use the Site feed. My apologies for the misinformation above.
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Apologies if this is a dumb question: If RSS is enabled in "Edit Backlight Settings", is the feed automatically created? Is there anything else that needs to be enabled for the feed to be created?
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Please repost this new question to the new forum.
Rod
Just a user with way too much time on his hands.
www.rodbarbee.com
ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site
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