I have blogs and a vbulletin forum. I have some categories which be used to announce useful content. I would like to post summary of new posts made on my blogs. Specifically i will post summaries of my new posts inmy blog's RSS feed. And i need an extension which will get these feed's data and post it to myforum automatically. If there is no extension for this, i would like to use an external program too. Let me know the program in that case. I guess i will need to enter username/password data to the program and enter feed url and it will do other details autmatically with one mouse click.
You can do with with the RSS feature that already exists in vbulletin. Simply add your blog's RSS link into admincp -> RSS Feeds. I am using vblogetin for my blogs right now, and when my members make a blog entry a post is created in my "Member Blogs" forum. Also, it looks like vbulletin will integrating blogs into the core product soon. -Raymond
Thanks Raymond. It looks excellent. Your idea is also great. I will publish my member blogs in a similar way. I have one question. Does Vbulletin detect duplicates before posting them to the forum? Lets say the system checks the blog every hours and in one hour we can only have one new post published. If our RSS feed publishes 10 posts then there is a problem here. Does the system detect that it posted previous 9 beforehand and only post the last item to the forum? If not how do you solve this problem? Thanks. Rep added
Hello, Yes, as long as the feed is healthy, you should be OK. For good measure you can tell the feed to only check the last 3 entries. The only time I had a problem with duplicates was when I had a malfunctioning RSS feed with bad XML. -Raymond