How to style Feed aggregator Block?

Posted by Tytest on September 9, 2009 at 8:28pm

When you create aggregate a feed using the core Feed aggregator, it produces a block you can enable. This block is very basic and only shows the Title from a feed in a list.
I know you can style the Feed aggregator node by editing aggregator-item.tpl.php, but how do you style the block?

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Three options

Posted by gabidrg on September 9, 2009 at 9:21pm

1. Check if the block has a specific class/id and write specific CSS rules.
2. Use Block Theme module to create specific block templates that can be applied afterwards in block settings.
3. Copy your theme's block.tpl.php as block-[module].tpl.php and customize it. In your case it should be block-aggregator.tpl.php

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I like the idea of a

Posted by Tytest on September 10, 2009 at 2:00pm

I like the idea of a template. I've tried using what was found in the aggregator module, but the fields don't render. Any ideas?

<div class="feed-item">
  <h3 class="feed-item-title">
    <a href="<?php print $feed_url; ?>"><?php print $feed_title; ?></a>
  </h3>

  <div class="feed-item-meta">
  <?php if ($source_url) : ?>
    <a href="<?php print $source_url; ?>" class="feed-item-source"><?php print $source_title; ?></a> -
  <?php endif; ?>
    <span class="feed-item-date"><?php print $source_date; ?></span>
  </div>

<?php if ($content) : ?>
  <div class="feed-item-body">
    <?php print $content; ?>
  </div>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ($categories) : ?>
  <div class="feed-item-categories">
    <?php print t('Categories'); ?>: <?php print implode(', ', $categories); ?>
  </div>
<?php endif ;?>

</div>

From my trial and error....

Posted by Lrrr on October 26, 2009 at 5:39am

I believe that the [somename].tpl.php files that you can copy from the aggregator module folder to your theme's folder are used to style the aggregator PAGE, not blocks. i.e.: http://www.example.com/aggregator/sources/1

I wanted to make three code changes to the rendering of the aggregator blocks. 1) remove the "more" link; 2) remove the "blog this" link; 3) add target="_blank" to each link.

For #1, add this to template.php:
http://drupal.org/node/228051#comment-1673392

For #2 & #3, add this to template.php:

/* modify link items in the aggregator to open in a new window and
suppress the "blog it" icon & links should the module ever be enabled.
(Code removed--not commented out--from this copy of the original function.) */

function phptemplate_aggregator_block_item($item, $feed = 0) {
  global $user;

  $output = '';

  // Display the external link to the item.
  $output .= '<a href="'. check_url($item->link) .'" target="_blank">'. check_plain($item->title) ."</a>\n";

  return $output;
}

Everything else, was cosmetic, so that was handled with CSS.

Any other suggestions?

Posted by Tytest on September 11, 2009 at 2:44pm

Any other suggestions?

help

Posted by kiev1.org on October 1, 2009 at 5:20am

how theming individual item in rss block???

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Hey tytest you can try views

Posted by rkdeveloper on October 8, 2009 at 1:34pm

try with views. i did that..

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block-aggregator.tpl.php

Posted by allisonk on December 11, 2009 at 6:48am

I found that you need to duplicate the block.tpl.php file and make it block-aggregator.tpl.php - then you can customize within that. There's a tutorial on Lynda.com .

But I can't figure out how to style the list - or add the date to each entry. I don't understand how it's calling the list style - I was expecting to see

Does anyone know how this works?

Oh - this is what is meant

Posted by allisonk on December 11, 2009 at 7:03am

Oh - this is what is meant above - http://drupal.org/project/views it's a module.