By iharley on

I'm wanting to be able to have my users have their own RSS feeds, but can't find a way to do this. Is this something that can be handled in Drupal core, or do I need a module?

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vm commented

views.module with a user argument and a feed display maybe?

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iharley commented

I should have expanded... I was under the impression that rss feeds/user's blog was a built in feature. I would prefer not having to make a view for each user, but yeah, the view/feed/user/blog thing does work.

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vm commented

the benefit of agruments is that you only make one view and it pulls what is required and unique from the url to determine what should be shown.

That aside, drupal does provide a rss feed of each blog.
add /feed into your url at the end. blog/1/feed for example would be the default path of the feed for UID 1.

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iharley commented

Thanks for both those tips. I didn't think about the argument, might have to look into that just to learn. So, is there a way to make it more user friendly to subscribe to user feeds? That sounds like a module.

Actually just tried that adding /feed and it doesn't seem to be working.

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vm commented

seems to work perfectly well on my test site and my production site. see: http://dev.verymisunderstood.com/blog/1/feed

if using pathauto.module check it's aliased and non aliased listing to see if you've altered the path in any way. It should also tell you the path. Without a link to your site to check it's paths for you. I don't know how much more help I can be with that issue.

There are many ways to subscribe to feeds. some produced by email programs, others by browsers, linking directly to the feeds with HTML. It's possible there is a module that helps with rss type tasks. I see a few under RSS however, I"ve not tested them.

views arguments for learning = http://gotdrupal.com/videos/drupal-views-arguments
arguments are a good thing to work through though not necessary for the task at hand per my testing and based on adding /feed to the end of the url when looking at the overview of a users blog listing to begin with.

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iharley commented

starlightjournal.com, if you have the time to try.

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vm commented

starlightjournal.com/blogs/sljadmin/feed works perfectly well

That said the construction of the urls is /blogs/username/feed

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iharley commented

Thanks a lot, greatly appreciate it.