Having set up a blog on blogspot that syncs with a blog page on my web site I now want to have a condensed version that inserts into my opening page.
A simple column with thumbnail images and first lines from each blog entry.
What is the easiest way to create and insert this column into/onto the opening page?
Thanks.
Alan.
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If you had Pro, you could use my ReadFeed Action to do this. Your blog
publishes an RSS feed, most likely, and ReadFeed can pick up that
feed, filter it, reformat it into HTML, and then insert it where you
want it on your page. Unfortunately, I haven’t made an Express version
of the Action.
Walter
On Sep 22, 2010, at 9:46 PM, alan lynch wrote:
Having set up a blog on blogspot that syncs with a blog page on my
web site I now want to have a condensed version that inserts into my
opening page.
A simple column with thumbnail images and first lines from each blog
entry.
What is the easiest way to create and insert this column into/onto
the opening page?
Thanks.
Alan.
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Thanks, Walter!
I guess it’s time to upgrade. Will assume that moving up to Pro will not present any problems. More options hopefully.
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Yes. It’s just moving up from the little box of pastels to the jumbo
set. Your documents will open in Pro, but once you save them, Express
will no longer be able to open or modify them.
Walter
On Sep 23, 2010, at 9:15 AM, alan lynch wrote:
Thanks, Walter!
I guess it’s time to upgrade. Will assume that moving up to Pro will
not present any problems. More options hopefully.
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Hi Walter.
Slight problem. Having upgraded to Pro 5.5 I then fooled around with your action as well as the rss feed action in freeway but wasn’t getting what I wanted.
No biggie. I can always try later. Removed all the actions, etc.
However - my home page (http://www.alanlynchartists.com) now shows COULD NOT OPEN XML INPUT.
If I go to another page on the site and then come back it’s fine again.
In Page layout there is nothing to suggest I have an xml file. Yes, I did change one page to .xml but then changed it back to html.
It’s driving me nuts as I have uploaded previous versions, etc. and still get the same error.
Any ideas on how to resolve this? Otherwise my hope page is useless!
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Check to make sure you removed the action entirely from your home page and publish again. That error message means the action is still trying to access the rss feed.
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Hi, Walter.
I’ve eradicated all rss actions from the pages/site, republished and uploaded again and I’m still getting the same error message:
The other page links work perfectly and when I return to the home page it too works perfectly. (the extension changes from .com to .com/index.html).
I have tried changing the upload web address to.com/index.html but that doesn’t change anything.
Is there anything else I could do to get back to ‘normal’ before I decide to move ahead with RSS ReadFeed?
Is it code that the blogger site is generating?
Is it server related?
Very confused - so depending on your insight!
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That’s simply not possible. There’s got to be another bit of code in
there somewhere, because that line of text wouldn’t come from any
other place. Please do the following:
Preview your page into a browser on your Mac (from within Freeway).
In your browser, choose View / View Source and copy all the text you
see there.
Go to http://pastie.org and create a new Pastie with all of that
text in it.
Send me a link to the resulting Pastie, and I can look at the raw
source and see what I can make of it.
Walter
On Sep 27, 2010, at 12:23 PM, alan lynch wrote:
Hi, Walter.
I’ve eradicated all rss actions from the pages/site, republished and
uploaded again and I’m still getting the same error message:
http://www.alanlynchartists.comThe other page links work perfectly and when I return to the home
page it too works perfectly. (the extension changes from .com
to .com/index.html).I have tried changing the upload web address to.com/index.html but
that doesn’t change anything.Is there anything else I could do to get back to ‘normal’ before I
decide to move ahead with RSS ReadFeed?
Is it code that the blogger site is generating?
Is it server related?Very confused - so depending on your insight!
Thanks.
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Walter,
Never noticed this action before. Just out of interest, is there an option to shorten the article length? Similar to the Safari RSS behaviour?
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David
On 23 Sep 2010, at 02:50, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
you could use my ReadFeed Action to do this.
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Not at the present. It takes whatever the feed publishes and formats
it using a sprintf() format string. You can drop elements of the feed
– say only show the headlines and links – but you have to take the
description as it comes, whatever length the author made it.
Walter
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Walter,
Never noticed this action before. Just out of interest, is there an
option to shorten the article length? Similar to the Safari RSS
behaviour?–
David
On 23 Sep 2010, at 02:50, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
you could use my ReadFeed Action to do this.
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Thanks, Walter.
Here’s the link:
http://pastie.org/1184803
Much appreciated.
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Pity, looking for a shortened feed on a home page. Thanks for getting back anyway.
David
On 27 Sep 2010, at 19:07, Walter Lee Davis email@hidden wrote:
Not at the present. It takes whatever the feed publishes and formats it using a sprintf() format string. You can drop elements of the feed – say only show the headlines and links – but you have to take the description as it comes, whatever length the author made it.
Walter
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Walter,
Never noticed this action before. Just out of interest, is there an option to shorten the article length? Similar to the Safari RSS behaviour?
–
David
On 23 Sep 2010, at 02:50, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
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If you take a look inside the Action bundle, and read through
Feed.php, I think you could make the code truncate the contents of all
fields after a certain number of characters. The thing is, you would
need to set that limit once and then let the function apply it to
every field in the feed, because of the way the code works – it
crawls through the XML of the feed, inspecting each element and
turning it into a variable in a multi-dimensional array. The reason
for this is because RSS is a very loose standard, and while there are
some required elements, there are also many optional things you can
add and still call it a feed.
Walter
On Sep 27, 2010, at 2:49 PM, David Owen wrote:
Pity, looking for a shortened feed on a home page. Thanks for
getting back anyway.David
On 27 Sep 2010, at 19:07, Walter Lee Davis email@hidden wrote:
Not at the present. It takes whatever the feed publishes and
formats it using a sprintf() format string. You can drop elements
of the feed – say only show the headlines and links – but you
have to take the description as it comes, whatever length the
author made it.Walter
On Sep 27, 2010, at 1:58 PM, David Owen wrote:
Walter,
Never noticed this action before. Just out of interest, is there
an option to shorten the article length? Similar to the Safari
RSS behaviour?–
David
On 23 Sep 2010, at 02:50, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
you could use my ReadFeed Action to do this.
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Make sure that you have removed the index.php from your server’s web
root folder. Use an FTP client to look in there. I suspect that
(because this page is absolutely devoid of PHP and looks like it
should work without any errors) you have both an index.html and an
index.php in your server’s root folder. Depending on the server setup,
one will be preferred over the other when visitors type in just your
domain name, rather than a complete URL with filename. The only other
thing that could be going on here is that your hosting provider uses a
very long-lived cache for the home page, and you are still seeing the
cached version of your home page. But that’s a distant second to my
first guess, in terms of plausibility.
Walter
On Sep 27, 2010, at 2:48 PM, alan lynch wrote:
Thanks, Walter.
Here’s the link:
http://pastie.org/1184803
Much appreciated.
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Walter.
Good man!
You were right on the money - both those extensions were there. Deleted the index.php and I’m back up.
Now I can take a look at the ReadFeed action and try it again.
Thanks again.
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