By appraveen on

I have a RSS feed created from views. I plan to use it to put it on my site's front page. So that as and when people post new content, I can show it as the latest activity.

How do I acheive it?

I know RSS is a plain XML that I can parse in PHP and present the required content custom formatted.

The problem with the approach mentioned above is, when I update the site I will have to do the twikling again.

Please suggest a better way to do this.

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yelvington commented

You have an RSS feed from your own site, and you want to put it on the homepage? That doesn't make sense.

If it's an RSS feed from another site, use the Feed Aggregator.

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appraveen commented

Thanks alot yelvington for a quick reply.

I have different content types on my site. Now, I want to showcase the latest activity from each content types on the front page FP.

Content Types:
- - Forum posts
- - Articles
- - News
- - Quotes

I know there is an option to promote the content to front page but the problem is, it wont be grouped together. I mean suppose a new quote is added, that would show up on FP, then if a News article is added, that would show up, then other content type. I dont want it to be that way.

I plan to have sections/groups on FP with title:
- - Latest Forum posts
- - Latest Articles
- - Latest News
- - Latest Quotes

and have respective items under them.

That's the reason I thought of having a RSS feed for each content type and put the feed up on FP under appropriate title.

Please suggest how could I do it best?

Please provide me with some links/reference for better understanding.

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yelvington commented

I plan to have sections/groups on FP with title:
- - Latest Forum posts
- - Latest Articles
- - Latest News
- - Latest Quotes

1. Install Views, if you have not already done so. Create blocks that display whatever you want.

2. Install Panels, and place the blocks into whatever layout you prefer.

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appraveen commented

Yes I have the two modules installed and enabled. Please tell me how do I do it? Expose Form in blocks? ? ? ? ?