Does anyone use RSS feeds from their forum on their homepage?

Discussion in 'XML & RSS' started by fadetoblack22, Jul 6, 2009.

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    I am trying to do it on my site and they are not displaying as I want them. I am looking for examples of how to do it.

    thanks.
     
    fadetoblack22, Jul 6, 2009 IP
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    ~kev~ Well-Known Member

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    I have a wordpress blog on one domain name. And then I have a vbulletin forum on the other domain name.

    On the wordpress site, I am using the "External Data Provider" of vbulletin to display recent forum threads in the sidebar of the blog.

    If you are using wordpress, but not vbulletin, then you can use a script called "Carp" from Geckotribes to display RSS feeds on your blog. Carp is free and pretty easy to setup. You upload it to the server, run the install script, configure the settings, and then insert the code into your wordpress blog.
     
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    fadetoblack22 Well-Known Member

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    Sorry I meant to say phpbb3 forum.

    But I will look into the CARP.

    The problem I am actually having is that the feed displays too much stuff - Title, topic title date, number of views then a few lines from the post and some other data. Its too much and looks a mess.
     
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    fadetoblack22 Well-Known Member

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    Do you parse the rss feeds onto another page?
     
    fadetoblack22, Jul 16, 2009 IP