By sampeckham on

I'm in development of a new Drupal site on 6.2, and just can't figure out what's going on with RSS.

If I add the 'Syndicate' block to a region, no matter what page I'm on it directs me to www.mydomain.com/rss.xml and then only shows one node, and it's always the same one. I actually have about 20 nodes across several content types on the site. I have looked at the RSS Publish settings and they are the default (10 items, Title and Teaser).

I also have 'pathauto' installed which indicates that every item has a page under www.mydomain.com/[node-type]/[title-raw]/feed This turns out to not do anything except show the node as normal.

What I'd like to do is create an RSS feed for each content type and display a link to it when an item from that type is shown. Do I need another module, or do i need to configure something else?

I've also looked at 'Contemplate' and played around with the rss template option, but can't see at all what it does, or rather where I can find the result of what it does!?

Sorry, if this has been covered before, but with the Drupal site search not working, and google not turning anything up i'm stuck. I'd love a Drupal RSS tutorial to read/watch.

Thanks for any help

S

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kiyoshin’s picture

kiyoshin commented

I'm creating Book List web-site.
I have been trying to create costume rss with 'Contemplate' like adding item called 'author's name' ... but nothing change.
Did you figure out this problem already?

sampeckham’s picture

sampeckham commented

Not really. Only that the default rss.xml is only designed to show RSS items that are "Promoted to the front page."

So for any other RSS, the only way I can see is that you have to create a view with an RSS display.

It also took me a while to play with the right syntax and get additional XML elements to show up, see my comment on this node http://drupal.org/node/261740 about added georss, you'll need some similar code to add 'author' tags.

Hope that helps.