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I am in the early stages of installing, learning and developing in Drupal. My question is, does Drupal support or enable content syndication (or content sharing) across multiple sites. In certain instances, we wish to basically enter approved and official content in one place and be able to pull from that place and re-use the approved/official content on many of our different sites. We would like to style the content at the presentation layer according to the template or theme of the site that presents the approved/official content, which will be different from site-to-site, but the approved/official content must not change.
I am being told Drupal is not able to handle this. I know that I could write my own query strings to pull the content and re-use it but I am wondering why people tell me Druapl can't handle it.
Is it because there is no module or modules that make this happen?
Any feedback on this is greatly appreciated.
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You could probably set this up with http://drupal.org/project/views (to create a feed for the content you want to push) and http://drupal.org/project/feedapi (to consume the feed you created with views and create nodes).
So when you say "you could
So when you say "you could probably set this up" does that mean that Drupal really isn't built to support content sharing? Has your suggested solution been tested?
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I'm not sure what "built to support content sharing" actually means-- but i would say it absolutely is. There's probably many different ways to do it. And i said "probably" because I don't have that setup currently installed anywhere but it can definitely be done.