Comments on: How to Fix Your ExpressionEngine RSS Template

By: Jeremy Bise

Jeremy Bise — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:23:25 +0000

Thanks so much for this. I’ve been going nuts trying to figure out why I was getting duplicate entries in various readers and hopefully the removal of the seconds will fix it right up for me! Thanks!

By: Jim Arment

Jim Arment — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:12:56 +0000

Great article. I found it quite informational and educational. I implemented your “Improved EE RSS 2.0 Template” (with some minor customization) for two different feeds and it’s working perfectly.

Your template is getting added to my inventory file for future sites. Thanks for the article.

By: Michael Fraase

Michael Fraase — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:53:34 +0000

I’ve implemented your improved RSS 2.0 template, successfully I think. Problem is, it feeds a “This feed contains no entries” (title and body) every hour.

Please advise.

By: mahalie

mahalie — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:18:51 +0000

@vanni – if you are saying three weblogs into one rss feed then you can use the same templates as shown here (even the default EE rss templates work, just not perfectly). Include multiple weblogs as I mentioned to Florian, and then you’ll need to wrap the description tags in {if weblog == “Weblog Name”}{/if} for each weblog unless your weblogs happen to have the exact same field names used in the description tag.

By: vanni

vanni — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:12:35 +0000

I have never managed to successfully get three weblogs to output rss feeds. Would love to see an example that works.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:08:58 +0000

Thanks for this information. This answered a few question I had regarding how up to date the RSS 2 templates were. I knew some of the information could be reduced!

By: mahalie

mahalie — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:38:43 +0000

@Florian – it’s not different in it’s EE specific code than any other EE templates. This is a basic template which you will likely need to modify to suit your specific install. Use bars to include more than one weblog in the (master_weblog_name=”foo|bar”) and of course if your fields have different names in different weblogs you’re going to need to detect which weblog the item belongs to and offer different description tags.

By: Lea

Lea — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:29:39 +0000

This is excellent. I’ve had issues with visitors telling me that my feed keeps pinging them, not realizing it had something to do with the seconds. I’ve taken your improved template and implemented it to my site. Thanks!

By: Florian Schroiff

Florian Schroiff — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:11:43 +0000

Great summary!

Did you test if your feed template works when you give it more than one “weblog”?