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    soFeed

    Tag Name
    soFeed

    Description
    Many clients have outside sources for news, such as blogs, Twitter feeds, syndicated content, social networking sites, etc. These outside services normally publish this information in a standard format, called RSS (which stands for "Really Simple Syndication"). With SiteOrganic, you can embed an RSS feed into any page of your site. This allows you to show headlines on YOUR site from ANOTHER location. This allows you to publish great content from other sources, right alongside the information you add via SiteOrganic... and have it all look consistent.

    NOTE: This will require a minimal charge to setup and style your third-party blog feed for your website. Please contact our Care Team for information on design options and pricing.

    Required Parameters
    • source (this is the location of the feed you wish to publish; you will get this URL from whatever Website is providing the feed)
    • transform (this is a special file that tells SiteOrganic how to translate and display the feed on your Website. Keep this set to '/uploads/headlines.xsl' unless otherwise instructed. If you are familiar with XSL transforms, you may create your own template and replace it yourself.)
    • showLinks (this tells SiteOrganic whether or not to show links that may appear within each feed item; allowable values are True or False). If this is set to False, then the text of each link will still be shown (as plain text, instead of a clickable link). This can be important if your feeds have a character limit.
    • showImages (this tells SiteOrganic whether or not to show images that may appear within each feed item; allowable values are True or False)

     

    Optional Parameters
    • none (some clients may have custom values here; consult your Image Sizes Guide for more information)

     

    Example

    {soFeed(source=https://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/JohnDoe/coolSites?count=4,transform=/uploads/headlines.xsl,parameters=showLinks=False|showImages=False)}

    In the above example, the feed from "feeds.delicious.com" will be shown on the page, using the layout defined in "/uploads/headlines.xsl". Links and images within the feed will be hidden, to allow more text to display.