Really Simple Syndication / Rich Site Summary or RDF is a site Summary, several similar forms of web syndication used by news websites and weblogs. It is good idea to provide RSS support for your forum.
Unfortunately it is turned off by default under Vbulletin software. Here is a quick way to turn on:
Step #1: Login as admin to your forum by visiting admincp (e.g. http://yourdmain.com/forum/admincp/index.php)
Click on vBulletin Options
Step #2: Select External Data Provider > Click on Edit settings button
Fig.01: Vbulletin options which allow people to receive a feed
Step #3: Turn on Enable RSS Syndication and Enable XML Syndication (Select Yes)
Fig.02: vBulletin Turn on an RSS feed
Click on Save button to save the changes.
Step #4: Now your forum is ready with RSS feed. To view RSS feed visit
- http://yourdomain.com/forum/external.php
- http://yourdomain.com/forum/external.php?type=RSS2
You can see an example of working RSS feed here.
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Thanks,
I was looking for this..
Thanks a lot man.. thanks for this was looking all over the net for this.. i got it installed in my site now… thanks again
Do you know how to change the source of the feed? Or which forum it grabs content from? If anyone does, just email me at G0tsw4g@aol.com telling me how. Thanks.
@Rob Johnson:
You can specify the forum using the “forumids” parameter, like:
http://yourdomain.com/forum/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=9
Thanks!
Seemed so simple, but I couldn’t figure out how to get the RSS feed on, so this came in handy.
Excellent site theos.in and I am really pleased to see you have what I am actually looking for here and this this post is exactly what I am interested in. It’s taken me literally 3 hours and 50 minutes of searching the web to find you (just kidding!) so I shall be pleased to become a regular visitor
Excellent site theos.in and I am really pleased to see you have what I am actually looking for here and this this post is exactly what I am interested in. It’s taken me literally 3 hours and 38 minutes of searching the web to find you (just kidding!) so I shall be pleased to become a regular visitor
tnx.. was great help!
Thanks. This is exactly what I was looking for. Took a while to find though
RSS works great now in my vbulletin forums
Thanks. Is there a way I can include only threads in RSS feed?
I am getting posts in my feed, which actually I have blocked in robots.txt
It would be useful if I get threads only.
Munna
Hello,
Does anybody know if you can pull an rss feed from a topic? I tried
/forum/external.php?type=RSS2&topicids=71 But it didn’t work.
any help would be appreciated,
adam
Just wanted to say hello all. This is my first post.
I came to learn some great information here.
This was awesome!! Just what I needed. Thanks!
Hi.
What should I do to upload avatar in my profile?
Thanks.
Thank you so much! Didn’t realize how easy it was!! You saved me lots of searching!! Thanks again!
We use it on our forum. I wasn’t used to the configurations and this post certainly helped find it faster! Thanks!
Thank you very much! This article has been extremely helpful.
Now I am trying to get the rss feed for an external news website to display on the sidebar of my vb4 forum. Any help would be greatly appreciated.