Embed blog feed in one of my pages

I may be missing something obvious here but I’m having trouble understanding the RSS and Blogger actions. What I want to do is show my blog posts (or headlines) within an item on one of my pages. This page will look like all others, but the content will be pulled from my blog.

Is this possible? I’m happy to use Blogger or Wordpress.

From what I can gather, the built in actions either help you create Blogger templates for use in Blogger, or create an RSS feed based on your own site contents. What I want is different - sort of a mash-up I guess.

Thanks,
David


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If your blog publishes an RSS feed, then you can consume that feed
from within a Freeway page with my ReadFeed Action, available at
ActionsForge[1].

Walter

  1. http://actionsforge.com

On Nov 18, 2008, at 10:54 PM, David Brewster wrote:

I may be missing something obvious here but I’m having trouble
understanding the RSS and Blogger actions. What I want to do is
show my blog posts (or headlines) within an item on one of my
pages. This page will look like all others, but the content will be
pulled from my blog.

Is this possible? I’m happy to use Blogger or Wordpress.

From what I can gather, the built in actions either help you
create Blogger templates for use in Blogger, or create an RSS feed
based on your own site contents. What I want is different - sort
of a mash-up I guess.

Thanks,
David


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Sorry, in simpler terms …

On Nov 19, 2008, at 8:15 AM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:

If your blog publishes an RSS feed, then you can consume that feed
from within a Freeway page

By ‘consume’ I mean “Download the RSS, mess with it to generate a
nice unordered list of links and descriptions, and publish that list
within your page, wherever you draw a box.”

Walter


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Walter,

I installed your ReadFeed action and followed the detailed instructions and it worked first time - excellent! However, at the top of the feed, before my posts, are two errors:

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/bu/bus/businesssimplification.com.au/public/www/new/Resources/Resources/Feed.php on line 49

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/bu/bus/businesssimplification.com.au/public/www/new/Resources/Resources/Feed.php on line 50

Do you know what’s happening here? The feed comes from a WordPress blog, by the way.

David


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You don’t have permission to write into your _cache folder. Make sure
that you created it at the same level as the page where you applied
the Action, and that you used your FTP/SFTP application to change the
permissions on that folder to 777 (or, if you know the name your Web
server runs as, change that folder to be “owned” by the Web server
process).

Walter

On Dec 7, 2008, at 6:57 PM, David Brewster wrote:

Walter,

I installed your ReadFeed action and followed the detailed
instructions and it worked first time - excellent! However, at the
top of the feed, before my posts, are two errors:

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource
in /home/bu/bus/businesssimplification.com.au/public/www/new/
Resources/Resources/Feed.php on line 49

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource
in /home/bu/bus/businesssimplification.com.au/public/www/new/
Resources/Resources/Feed.php on line 50

Do you know what’s happening here? The feed comes from a WordPress
blog, by the way.

David


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Thanks for the quick reply. As usual, your instructions were spot on but my reading of them wasn’t. My mistakes were that I created a FILE, not a FOLDER, called _cache, gave it 666, not 777 permissions and had it at the top level.

Adjusted all those and it is now working nicely (but for some weird text characters but I’ll look for that solution outside this thread)

Thanks a lot Walter.


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