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

geoffs52’s picture

Aggregator 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).

aron novak’s picture

Status: Active » Fixed

Yes, 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

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.