Displaying a feed in Appropedia can be accomplished with a widget or with RSS tags.
Using RSS tags
- See also Help:RSS tags.
Simplest example:
<rss>http://blogs.appropedia.org/feed/</rss>
<rss>http://blogs.appropedia.org/feed/</rss>
With set number of posts:
<rss number=3>http://feeds.feedburner.com/afrigadget</rss>
<rss number=3>http://feeds.feedburner.com/afrigadget</rss>
RSS tag options
You can add more than one feed in a single <rss> tag to have them display in columns. Do so by adding "|" between the feed urls. Thus, <rss>firsturl|secondurl|thirdurl</rss> will create a reader with 3 columns, displaying items from all 3 feeds. Inside the <rss> tag you can include optional settings, which are detailed below:
- number
- By default, the reader will display all the items in the feed. If you want to display up to a maximum of a certain number of items, then add number=n (where n is the max number) inside the rss tag: <rss number=10>http://www.appropedia.org/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss</rss> will display the last 10 stories from BBC World.
- time
- By default, the reader will take the value of $egCacheTime as the amount of time (in seconds) between each local caching of the RSS feed. If you want a certain feed to refresh its cache more or less frequently, then add time=t (where t is the refresh time in seconds) inside the rss tag: <rss time=7200>http://www.appropedia.org/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss</rss> will refresh the cache of stories from BBC World every 7200 seconds (2 hours).
The max and min time allowed for the time argument is governed by $egCacheTimeMin and $egCacheTimeMax in LocalSettings.php. If the specified time falls outside this range, then it will revert to the default $egCacheTime value. - desc=off
- Hides the description provided by the feed.
- width
- If set to a legal value (between $egWidthMin and $egWidthMax) it turns the RSS section into a floating div, alligned to the right, of the width specified (in pixels)
- title=off
- Hides the title (and description in
desc=off
of the feed.
Bugs
E.g. 1 - the following code:
<rss number=5>http://www.appropedia.org/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss</rss>
Creates: <rss number=5>http://www.appropedia.org/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss</rss>
The feed works elsewhere, so it's not clear why it breaks here.
<rss number=5>http://blogs.appropedia.org/feed/</rss>
See also
- See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS_Reader#The_.3Crss.3E_tag for the most up to date information on reading RSS feeds.
Using a "widget"
BROKEN - use the RSS tag instead.
This method appears to be broken - no output is given. The code (Widget:Feed) relies on an external service which is possibly not working the same way now.
- See also Appropedia:Widgets.
E.g.:
{{#widget:Feed |feedurl=http://blogs.appropedia.org/feed/ |chan=y |num=3 |desc=50 |date=n |targ=y }}
Creates: