I am in the process of building a multisite drupal site. The top domain will act as the portal and each subdomain will be about a specific topic. Instead of tampering with my database and using Domain Access or any other content sharing method, I was thinking of using FeedAPI and Feed Element Mapper to "syndicate" the content from the sub domains to the top domain.
I don't really want people to "stick around" on the portal. I want them to use the portal to find a article and be redirected to the correct sub domain. So I am not looking to create nodes (in the sense of hosting the content on the portal site). I just want the portal to act as a way for people to quickly get to the subdomain.
I checked out the demo and it seems that the feeds are converted into nodes and whatever content comes from the feed is placed on your site. Is there a way to make all "read more" and headline clicks go directly to the original article without the user "sticking around" on the portal.
Also, I wanted to know if their was a deletion method you can use. I really only want the most current feed items to show. I don't want to create thousands of nodes where the user can stay on the portal site.
Would drupal's core Aggregator module work better for this set up?
Thanks!
Comments
Comment #1
geoffs52 commentedAggregator module would be better for this since it links directly to the source article page. The drawback is that it will only show the headline and not a headline and a teaser (at least as far as I know - maybe you could do something in Views to fix that).
Comment #2
aron novakYes, you can do that if you use hook_link_alter() for read more i think, and theme layer for title link, a similar thread: http://drupal.org/node/39704