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By Anonymous (not verified) on
I created a news bulletin page so reporter can add content. I set it up in views as a block and then set the block on front page sidebar .
Every time new news posts are posted they come up in the block. So what is the difference between that and adding syndicate block? Also
on my localhost the syndicate block just shows the little rss feed icon which when you click it on takes to my internal feed page- it is not feeding
it out as such into block.
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the syndicate block links to the default rss.xml @ yousite.com/rss.xml. If the feed has no content on it then this indicates that you don't have any content which has been promoted to the front page. It isn't intended to list content within the block.
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the feed does have content and it can all be seen when click through to feed page but it is not being fed into the block? Is this cron thing again??- if so the whole cron thing is confusing because last time I just copied and pasted some code I got from somewhere into my cpanel.
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as stated in the comment that you are replying to. The syndicate block isn't intended to list any content. It provides for users a way to utilize the feed-icon in a block instead of the feed-icon being located at the bottom of a list. Negates the necessity to manipulate the theme just to move the feed-icon around.
If you want your feed items located in a block then you must use the views.module to create a list or write a custom query and put it into a custom module that produces a block. Many of the default elements should be looked at as generic proof of concept. An example, is the recent comments block. It lists all comments. If you only wanted a block that lists blog comments you would have to use views or write a custom query/module/block.