rss feed external link in the feed?

[Kitty]

Hi,
my zen cart is working with the rss feed but
in the example link
http://www.gems-astrology.com/index....98ff733b2fb1cf

if you click on the links it actually goes to a page on the website. how do i do this? im using wordpress. currently it only goes to the main page on my site..

also, where do i get the .xml file?

thank you!

[davewest]

Which mod did you use for the feed?

Are you asking for the link to go to a product or list?

The feed mod I'm using creates the feed on the fly depending on the settings in admin. The mod writes the xml which is what an RSS feed is.

This is how mine looks..

http://warehousetoyou.net/index.php?...56197409e046c6

WordPress also creates it's own xml for feed readers. With a WordPress mod you can get it to read and show your zencart feeds.

http://beardivideengine19.com/19blog/

I'm still rewriting the mod so it displays better.

[misty]

With a WordPress mod you can get it to read and show your zencart feeds.

Which one did you use on your zencart site please?

[Kitty]

Thanks for your replies!!
Yes yes!! how did you get it to link to your product from the heading? list is good too..saves me from entering heaps of listings.

my WordPress version is 2.3.1
and my Zen Cart version 1.3.7.1

if i wanted the wordpress url for the .xml link where do i look?

thank you!

[davewest]

FirstRSS
RSS Aggregator
Wordpress Plugin

http://www.underjc.com/2007/10/first...wordpress.html

The plugin is lacking how-to info, but once its in your plugin dir, it tells you the two commands to use. one for just creating a link list and the other for the full list.

I added a page and inserted this into it. My template places page tabs on top.

[rsspara:http://warehousetoyou.net/index.php?main_page=rss_feed&feed=products]

This is also the link to the RSS feed for the mod in my zen cart... main_page=rss_feed&feed=products

It's auto generated at the time the page is requested so there's no stored xml file.

if i wanted the wordpress url for the .xml link where do i look?

If I understand what your asking, the xml file is again auto generated on the fly for wordpress as will... to link back to your blog feed for RSS2 would be your blog URL /?feed=rss2 and for an Atom feed, /?feed=atom

like this,

http://beardivideengine19.com/19blog/?feed=atom
http://beardivideengine19.com/19blog/?feed=rss2

I still need to find a way to make my 'Buy now' buttons show, but other then that, it works without using PHP code within the page.

[misty]

Thanks for info..
How did you get all those small icons to show
under each blog post at
http://beardivideengine19.com/19blog/
Did you use a wordpress plugin?

[Kitty]

Hi Dave,
thanks for the info but i dont think it worked.
i downloaded the plugin and installed it into /wp-content/plugins

in wordpress: plugins>install

then write>write page
"page title"
"page content" "code"
paste [rsspara:http://warehousetoyou.net/index.php?...feed=products]

do i use "[ ]" these brackets?

click on header link on feed page goes to my main page
in word press>options my blog address url points to my main page which is where its goin now. but if i change it back to the blog page it'll go there and not to the page i want.

the only difference i could see was that in the main webpage in IE the right sideboxes went missing... mozilla was fine..

could you tell me which step did i missed?

thank you!

[davewest]

Kitty

do i use "[ ]" these brackets?

Yes use them to wrap the code. I look at what I did and I didn't rewrite any of it. What's your blog URL?

Misty

Social bookmark icons plugin 'obsocialbookmarker';

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/obsocialbookmarker/

[misty]

Social bookmark icons plugin 'obsocialbookmarker';

Thanks for info Dave

[davewest]

Kitty,

Hope you don't mind me answering you here, this may help others as will.

Zen Cart needs a RSS feed mod in order to produce the RSS feed.
I used this one and I like so far..

http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=733

Once this is installed, then the links I gave you well work. Right now their is no feed so it defaults back to your shop. The RSS mod also has the ability to set the feed button and link on your shop page. I didn't like where it wanted to put the link so I us my own code.

Something that you have to do on your own to make the feed visible to feed readers is to add the code to the 'html_header.php' file in your template common folder.

Page down until you see..  <base href="
Then above it add this..
<?php echo rss_feed_link_alternate(); // RSS Feed ?>

This will make it visible to feed readers and easy to bookmark.