RSS2 Feed Contribution

[countrycharm]

Make sure you put in a name in for your output feed file. Here is a picture to go by.

I must have been mighty tired when I posted this picture of the feed. This is a picture of the Google Base feeder. It has nothing to do with Rss feed so please do not go by it. Sorry for posting in the wrong thread.

[countrycharm]

I have followed the answer that country charm gave you but still fail to see where the xml file is generated. My screenshot looks just like yours, is there anything specific you had to do here?

Thanks

The screen shot that I posted has to do with Google Base Feeder. It has nothing to do with Rss Feed. If you want a feed for Google Base download the add on.

[djdavedawson]

Googles merchant central which is like the new googlebase accepts rss style feeds. So I had installed this thinking it would produce an .xml file I could use. The closest thing I can find which looks like what i need is in the cache folder. I guess I can copy and paste out the information from there. I couldn't figure out why what was in there is pretty much what i need but why the module doesn't output it for you.

Oh and also, is the thing i read about rss feeds causing duplicate content and google penalizing your site true ??

[djdavedawson]

Alright I finally figured out why I couldn't easily find what I was looking for.

Basically using safari rss doesn't allow you to view the source in the right way, using firefox allowed me to see the source the way it's supposed to be.

Thought this may help some people.

Thanks for all your help

[andreitero]

Hello, i'm having some trouble validating my feed. Apparently the New Products feed is valid, but the Specials and All Product feeds are not valid because there is a duplicate guid value:

<guid isPermaLink="true">http://lemy.co.uk/dunlop-gents-standard-mountain-bike-p-45.html</guid>

These are my feeds:
http://lemy.co.uk/index.php?main_pag...&feed=specials
http://lemy.co.uk/index.php?main_pag...&feed=products
http://lemy.co.uk/index.php?main_pag...d=new_products

Can anyone help me fix this?
Thanks!

[a_berezin]

Hi,

How do I get the RSS feed to show bestsellers?
...
Also would it be possible to have multiple RSS feeds? I would like both a new products RSS for my blog AND a bestsellers feed... is this possible?

Yes,
new products - /index.php?main_page=rss_feed&feed=new_products
bestsellers /index.php?main_page=rss_feed&feed=best_sellers

You can read about it in readme.txt:

Generate RSS Feed for:
feed=categories - Categories;
feed=categories&cPath=<cPath> - Categories in <cPath>;
feed=products - All Products
feed=products - Products in category
feed=products - Product by ID
feed=products - Product by MODEL
feed=new_products - New products
feed=new_products&cPath=<cPath> - New products in category
feed=new_products_random - New products random
feed=new_products_random&cPath=<cPath> - New products random in category
feed=best_sellers - Best sellers
feed=best_sellers&cPath=<cPath> - Best sellers in category <cPath>
feed=best_sellers_random - Best sellers random
feed=best_sellers_random&cPath=<cPath> - Best sellers random in category <cPath>
feed=specials - Specials
feed=specials_random - Specials random
feed=featured - Featured
feed=featured_random - Featured random
feed=upcoming - Upcoming
feed=upcoming&cPath=<cPath> - Upcoming in category <cPath>
feed=upcoming_random - Upcoming random
feed=upcoming_random&cPath=<cPath> - Upcoming random in category <cPath>
feed=news - News from News & Articles contribution

[gaffettape]

Thanks for that Andrew

[Stuff4Toys]

I've read back a few dozen pages and tried searching to no avail. Here's my issue:

The feed works, looks great formatted correctly BUT (and there's always a but) the new products feed is sorted backwards, oldest items first so that new products never get to the top.

http://www.stuff4toys.com/index.php?...d=new_products

The items shown were added a year ago, the 4897 items I have added since then never show up.

Best sellers only shows the first item ever sold on the site, not the list of best sellers.

Specials shows nothing

Featured shows the Specials item not the Featured items

Now what? How do I tell what version I am using?
JOhn ><>

[andreitero]

Hello, i'm having some trouble validating my feed. Apparently the New Products feed is valid, but the Specials and All Product feeds are not valid because there is a duplicate guid value:

<guid isPermaLink="true">http://lemy.co.uk/dunlop-gents-standard-mountain-bike-p-45.html</guid>

These are my feeds:
http://lemy.co.uk/index.php?main_pag...&feed=specials
http://lemy.co.uk/index.php?main_pag...&feed=products
http://lemy.co.uk/index.php?main_pag...d=new_products

Can anyone help me fix this?
Thanks!

Update:
Apparently, something is wrong with that particular page on my website as it is duplicating in the rss feed and thus creating the double guid tag, which is the reason my rss feed is not valid. I have turned that page upside down and can't figure out what's wrong with it and i would hate to lose it because it is ranking on the first page on google uk for 'dunlop mountain bike'. I have searched for blank spaces using the scrip provided by andrew(thanks) and removed them. Anyone has any idea how to prevent that duplication without removing my page?
http://lemy.co.uk/dunlop-gents-stand...bike-p-45.html

[dancar]

Hi there,

I've read through as much of these threads as possible and haven't seen any issues like the one I have with the RSS feed.

Previously under 1.3.7 we used this mod fine with no issues to feel our special to affiliated websites. We have now updated to the latest version (clean install) 1.3.8a but with a brand new template.

Site can be found here:
www.f-h-e.com.au

When adding the mod (and having gone through the full process three times now) I am finding a few issues, the main one being that the feed is not being picked up by our affiliate sites using Joomla! (note the old feed from our old 1.3.7 site still works on these Joomla! sites).

Under Safari the RSS page seems to display "ok" as HTTP, and when switched toe "FEED" in the address bar it looks great.

feed://f-h-e.com.au/index.php?main_page=rss_feed&feed=products

In Firefox it will only show as HTTP and all it shows is text (no images or rendering). I am guessing that this will have something to do with why the Joomla! websites are not picking up the feed?

http://f-h-e.com.au/index.php?main_p...&feed=featured

The only thing I have changed from the main install is our template doesn't have a "html_header.php" file. I did write my own and the icon did appear in the address bar, which was great. But eliminate any extra bugs I have taken this away. So the only judge of the feed at the moment is the RSS button at the bottom of the site (which I will remove once it's all working).

If anyone can help it would be much appreciated. I am using the latest version of the Mod from the downloads section.

Daniel