[Pro] Viewing Blog Entries In Freeway

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Hi everyone,

I have a query and hope the Freeway wizards can help.

I’d like to pull in the latest blog posts from blogger into my Freeway site. This is so anyone viewing the site can see what’s been happening on my blog. Much like a twitter feed. I don’t want people to be able to add to it, just see what’s happening and then visit if they wish.

Importantly, I don’t want to design a template in freeway and have it on blogger, I’d just like to pull in the details from my blog site.

Is this at all possible?

thank you in advance.

Mark

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The ReadFeed Action was written to do this very thing. Have a look for it on ActionsForge.

Walter

On Jun 18, 2012, at 3:42 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:

Hi everyone,

I have a query and hope the Freeway wizards can help.

I’d like to pull in the latest blog posts from blogger into my Freeway site. This is so anyone viewing the site can see what’s been happening on my blog. Much like a twitter feed. I don’t want people to be able to add to it, just see what’s happening and then visit if they wish.

Importantly, I don’t want to design a template in freeway and have it on blogger, I’d just like to pull in the details from my blog site.

Is this at all possible?

thank you in advance.

Mark

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Thank you Walter,

As you do so many times on FreewayTalk, you have come to my rescue.

Kind regards,

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Sorry Walter, do you know of an example of this working?

Just so I know what I’m aiming for?

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Hi Mark

I’ve used the ReadFeed action on several sites including these:

http://www.DMofT.co.uk/ (Latest news)
http://www.plasticvilleusa.org/ (Latest updates)

Unfortunately I could only get them only work with version 0.4.0 of the action; later versions gave error messages instead.

All the best

Gordon
http://www.gordonlow.net/

On 19 Jun 2012, at 10:27am, Mark Lawrence wrote:

Sorry Walter, do you know of an example of this working?

Just so I know what I’m aiming for?

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Hi Gordon,

Thank you for your post.

Are these feeds being brought in from a blog?

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Hi Mark

The feed at http://www.DMofT.co.uk comes directly from Blogger posts at http://news.DMofT.co.uk/ designed using Freeway’s great Blogger actions.

The feed at http://www.plasticvilleusa.org/ comes from the sites RSS feed created using Walter/s SimpleRSS action.

All the best

Gordon
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On 19 Jun 2012, at 12:14pm, Mark Lawrence wrote:

Are these feeds being brought in from a blog?

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Thanks Gordon.

Can I ask one more question?

Do you post your blogs for http://news.DMofT.co.uk on a separate website, and this part of your website pulls in this data.

Or do you post blogs directly onto your website?

Sorry, I’m all new to this!

Thank you again.

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I just did this for another Freeway user here: http://carolinaallergyandasthma.com The list of recent news is pulled from their blog, which is published by Perch.

Walter

On Jun 19, 2012, at 7:39 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:

Thanks Gordon.

Can I ask one more question?

Do you post your blogs for http://news.DMofT.co.uk on a separate website, and this part of your website pulls in this data.

Or do you post blogs directly onto your website?

Sorry, I’m all new to this!

Thank you again.

M

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Hi Mark

http://news.DMofT.co.uk is the blog and it is hosted externally by Blogger. However thanks to the Freeway actions you can create a Blogger template that is pretty much identical to the rest of your website. Therefore nobody notices when they go from the main website (with one host) to the blog (hosted by Blogger).

Initially the blog had an address of http://dmoft.blogspot.com but once again Walter worked his magic and told me how I could make it look like a sub-domain of my own website - see the fifth post at http://www.freewaytalk.net/thread/view/83256#m_83444

The home page simply uses Walter’s ReadFeed action and pulls the blog post titles and displays them with their links from the blog’s RSS feed.

All the best

Gordon
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On 19 Jun 2012, at 12:39pm, Mark Lawrence wrote:

Do you post your blogs for http://news.DMofT.co.uk on a separate website, and this part of your website pulls in this data.

Or do you post blogs directly onto your website?

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Hi Gordon,

Thank you for your time and response.

I’ve found all the feedback really helpful and will let you know how I get on!

Regards,

Mark

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