If you have worked with Joomla, you know about its syndication function, right?
If not, go publish the module called “Syndication” but most likely you hae seen it on the Frontpage after a new installation of Joomla!
Click on the RSS 2.0 icon and look how it turns out…. o, and the articles you see there are ONLY from the frontpage!
Here are some screen shots of you standard Joomla Syndication option.
As you can see, there are no layout options, no images, just text..
Why, becouse the standard Joomla syndication components strips all html coding from your articles… so you beautifully crafted pages from you Joomla blog gets scrabeld to just text.
And it takes only articles that are on the frontpage.
Improving your Joomla Blog Feeds
But there is help, via a great component called DS-Syndication!
DS-Syndication is installed like a normal component and comes with some great features, like a button maker for your RSS Icons, but there is a lot more that this component does.
Like giving you the oppertunity to create feeds for each section or categorie, or bundeling more sections or categories end even create a feed for a section and than exclude a categorie… oké this might be a little overwhelming I guess.
So lets take a look at some screen shots of this component:
Like there is the Button maker, which is Fun, but not why you should use this component:
Are there is also a Ping manager and a Ping functionality build in, Ping is just ping…
Setting up the good stuff for your Joomla Blog
