Replacing Pligg RSS Feeds with Feedburner ones

[msdi]

Hello,

I'm after replacing the the published/unpublished/all feeds that Pligg generates with some feedburner'd ones so I can track them. Any idea how I can do this?

[beatniak]

The best method for this is:

1) open /Pliggfolder/templates/<yourtemplate>/sidebar_modules/rss.tpl
Change the RSS-links to this:

<li><a href="{$my_pligg_base}/rss/popular" target="_blank">{#PLIGG_Visual_RSS_Published#}</a></li>
<li><a href="{$my_pligg_base}/rss/queued" target="_blank">{#PLIGG_Visual_RSS_Queued#}</a></li>
<li><a href="{$my_pligg_base}/rss/all" target="_blank">{#PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All#}</a></li>

2) open /Pliggfolder/templates/<yourtemplate>/pligg.tpl
Change the RSS link:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="http://{$server_name}{$my_pligg_base}/rss/popular"/>

3) add this to your .htaccess file

Redirect /rss/popular http://feeds.feedburner.com/<yourfeed>-popular
Redirect /rss/queued http://feeds.feedburner.com/<yourfeed>-queued
Redirect /rss/all http://feeds.feedburner.com/<yourfeed>-all

NOTE: I did the redirect with the htaccess, so you can easily change the feed URL to another service if you want and your feed-users can keep the same feed URL.

[euspirit]

Thanks for the method but I have still a problem:

The link to the small RSS icon in the top address bar of the browser is broken.
I have tried to put the feedburner link directly but the rss is not updated.

Any idea which link can I write in pligg.tpl ?

[Peter]

Hi beatniak, does this replace all the category feeds as well ?

Or its needed to change them all manually each time a category is created ?

I have pligg 9.8 with yget, just to know the same files are the ones to edit.

Thanks.

[Peter]

Hi, how can I change the rss feed in pligg to use my feedburner address.

I am using 9.8.2.

Thanks.

[Peter]

Originally Posted by Peter

Hi, how can I change the rss feed in pligg to use my feedburner address.

I am using 9.8.2.

Thanks.

..........

[godrox]

Does anyone know how to do this for all the category feeds?

[godrox]

Here's what I did to replace the category feeds with Feedburner feeds. It works okay, except that I still have "?category=1" (or whatever the appropriate category number is) after each Feedburner RSS URL, but oh well. It doesn't seem to affect it much and I don't know enough to know how to get rid of it.

First I burned all my category feeds in Feedburner. Then I opened .htaccess and at the end I added this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner
RewriteRule category/1$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/PlugRug-YouthMinistry [R,L]
RewriteRule category/2$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/PlugRug-ChildrensMinistry [R,L]
RewriteRule category/3$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/PlugRug-WorshipArts [R,L]

etc....

Basically, rewriting anything that ends with "category/1" to the Feedburner feed instead. Since pligg's category feed is the only thing that ends with "category/1" "category/2" etc, there's no conflict that I know of.

My site is still a work in progress, but you can see how it works here: PlugRug.com / Published Stories

[swese44]

I'm doing something similar:

##### RSS Routing to FeedBurner
redirect 301 /rss/queued http://feeds.feedburner.com/JoomlaVote/Upcoming-Stories
redirect 301 /rss/category/2 http://feeds.feedburner.com/JoomlaVote/Joomla-Community-News
redirect 301 /rss/category/3 http://feeds.feedburner.com/JoomlaVote/Articles-Tutorials
redirect 301 /rss/category/6 http://feeds.feedburner.com/JoomlaVote/Modules
redirect 301 /rss/category/7 http://feeds.feedburner.com/JoomlaVote/Plugins
redirect 301 /rss/category/8 http://feeds.feedburner.com/JoomlaVote/Components
redirect 301 /rss/category/5 http://feeds.feedburner.com/JoomlaVote/Templates
redirect 301 /rss/category/10 http://feeds.feedburner.com/JoomlaVote/Search-Engine-Optimization
redirect 301 /rss/category/12 http://feeds.feedburner.com/JoomlaVote/Monetizing-Advertising
redirect 301 /rss/category/13 http://feeds.feedburner.com/JoomlaVote/Community-Events
redirect 301 /rss/category/9 http://feeds.feedburner.com/JoomlaVote/Sites-Powered-By-Joomla
redirect 301 /rss http://feeds.feedburner.com/JoomlaVote

I also have the problem of the category numbers getting added to the FeedBurner URL:

feeds.feedburner.com/JoomlaVote/Search-Engine-Optimization?category=10
instead of
feeds.feedburner.com/JoomlaVote/Search-Engine-Optimization


Does anybody out there have a better way to incorporate FeedBurner?

[na3s]

Switch to Drigg before you get too knee deep in a messy coded Pligg. I wish I woulda done that...