Every CMS has a host of "less-explored features". I recently discovered one here at Nodal. Individual blogs have their own RSS feed - so if you want to subscribe to the posts of your favourite contributor or syndicate your own posts, all you need to do is:
- Click on their name
- Go to "view recent blog entries"
- Find the XML button down the bottom of the page
The feed takes the form "http://www.nodalpoint.org/blog/XX/feed", where XX is the numerical ID of the user.
Skimming the user list, I see we now have 680 registered users to choose from. Go Nodal!
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XML Feeds
Nice one. However, the information does not seem to be broadcast in a way that browsers like firefox can understand (you usually get a tiny icon on the status bar telling you that this site can be added to RSS feeds. Or maybe I'm missing something here !!
Weird
The feed icon shows up when the auto-discovery link is in the header:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS - jaws's blog" href="blog/400/feed" />
Drupal is generating these links so the icon *should* show up in Firefox (it does on mine, next to the URL address box, not the status bar). Maybe something to do with a Firefox 1.5 upgrade ?
Got it !
Turns out that in FF1.5, the autodiscovery icon is on the address bar and not on the status bar. I had to hunt around a bit to find this information. But then, hurrah !!!