Ninja RSS Syndicator
Version
2.0.5 (last update on Mar 13, 2013)
Rating
Compatibility
Reviews
86
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Date Added
4 November 2008
Create any number of RSS feeds, select which sections and categories to include or exclude. Choose whether to render images or HTML in the feed. Output the whole the article in the feed, just the introduction or a certain number of words. The Ninja RSS Syndicator puts you in control of your feeds.
Also check out our new Enclosures Plugin and also our Content Plugin Tags remover plugin. With more plugins coming soon!
http://ninjaforge.com/extensions/nrss-enclosures
http://ninjaforge.com/extensions/nrss-strip-plugin-tags
Component Features:
* Choice of output types: RSS 2.0, ATOM
* Write the feed name and description
* Choose the number of articles to show in feed
* Choose how to order the feed (by date descending, date ascending, section, category, article)
* Choose whether to show full text, a number of words in feed or just the intro text
* Choose the format for rendering author name
* Choose whether to render HTML
* Choose whether to render Images
* Choose whether to show frontpage items
* Choose which section to include
* Choose which categories to exclude
* Choose which individual articles to exclude
* Select the feed button
* Create your own personalized RSS buttons
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Works great.
One thing though:
Seems to add non published items as well.
Already addressed the makers so hope they will come with a small update.
Keep it up ;-)
One thing though:
Seems to add non published items as well.
Already addressed the makers so hope they will come with a small update.
Keep it up ;-)
Owner's reply
Thanks for the review Gert.
This has now been fixed :)
The component is easy to configure and use. It is definitely more configurable and generally friendly than the built-in syndicator. While pretty much every Joomla component has an admin screen that similar to the View Articles screen built-in to Joomla, in this plugin it is particularly useful. While the feeds allow customization, all that is needed is a name and a section. The main admin screen contains the name as well as the URL for the feed. So, once you've created an URL, the admin screen is a reference every time you need to go back and copy a feed's URL. IMO, big win.
Would have gone for 5 stars if it had regexp or even keyword filtering on the articles.
Would have gone for 5 stars if it had regexp or even keyword filtering on the articles.
Owner's reply
Hi emandab,
Thanks for the filtering suggestion, you know you can exclude particular articles if you like don't you?
We would love to know what you meant by "regexp or even keyword filtering"
e.g. leave out all articles with those keywords in the title? or in the metadata keywords? or the content itself?
If you would like this feature in feel free to suggest it via our forum or the feedback tab to the left hand side on our site at http://ninjaforge.com
Does what it says. Suggestion for future versions:
It'd be great if it started supporting more popular extensions like Event List, etc. to have feeds for other content-generating extensions.
It'd be great if it started supporting more popular extensions like Event List, etc. to have feeds for other content-generating extensions.
Installs easily and setup is very nice. However I have noticed that if I remove/add articles the resulting feed does not display or remove them. This is quite annoying as now if anyone has the feed they will get 404s on some of the feed links. I tried setting the cache to 0 but didn't help. Seems the only way for it to work is to create a brand new feed and then it will show the articles correctly.
I had the same issue as the previous posters with only dev articles showing with joomla 1.5.10.
I gave it a break last night and when I got back to this today, the RSS feed is correct.
Maybe this was an issue with the cache time of 3600? Whatever, It works now!
Thanks for the great add-on.
I gave it a break last night and when I got back to this today, the RSS feed is correct.
Maybe this was an issue with the cache time of 3600? Whatever, It works now!
Thanks for the great add-on.
Owner's reply
Thanks for the feedback, we've sorted this issue with the latest bug squat release :-)
Great extension, but version 1.5.5.3 does not work with j1.5.10 - Feed shows dev test articles, none of my articles
Downloaded older version of extension (v1.5.19d) and it works!! Currently the best free rss syndicate extension available for Joomla 1.5!
Downloaded older version of extension (v1.5.19d) and it works!! Currently the best free rss syndicate extension available for Joomla 1.5!
Owner's reply
Sorry about this, we've sorted this issue with the latest release. You can download the latest release from JoomlaCode.
1st of all, it's really easy to use however there we have create video instructions. That's great!..
One thing that I wanna know, why in the title links I have "&" instead of "&"? Because of this my pages don't have right content because I need "Itemid"'s... But "Read more" links have normal "&". Why? Thanks.
One thing that I wanna know, why in the title links I have "&" instead of "&"? Because of this my pages don't have right content because I need "Itemid"'s... But "Read more" links have normal "&". Why? Thanks.
Owner's reply
Hi Yuri,
This has now been fixed. It was because of incorrect encoding of HTML characters.
Thank you for the great extention! I’ve tested it the com and mod on xamp/localhost and they’re working as a charm (you’ve done really great work!). When I’ve installed them on site (one on server) there’re no problems with instalation and formating, again BUT when I try to see the feed I’m getting the msg:"Error creating feed file, please check write permissions." I think for newcommers to Joomla! (like me)it would be very useful some additional information about the permissions to be included in installation info package.
Whilst this is very good at generating the RSS feeds, I can't import them into my IPB forum.
I have tested importing RSS feeds from BBC.co.uk and that works fine, did the exact same for the RSS feeds created by this component but it wouldnt' import, despite me doing the exact same thing.
Tried to import the demo data from the demo site, this also didn't work.
Perhaps its a configuration issues, would like to hear a solution
I have tested importing RSS feeds from BBC.co.uk and that works fine, did the exact same for the RSS feeds created by this component but it wouldnt' import, despite me doing the exact same thing.
Tried to import the demo data from the demo site, this also didn't work.
Perhaps its a configuration issues, would like to hear a solution
Owner's reply
Hi KPDub,
Can you please check the latest version. Up until recently there were some problems in the component generating invalid feeds, which might have caused your problems.
We have fixed this up now.
Good work, thank you.
Maybe is good idea to add column for (re)order of the feeds and not order them only by name
Maybe is good idea to add column for (re)order of the feeds and not order them only by name
Owner's reply
Better late than never...
You can now sort by:
- Created Date
- Created Date reverse
- Modified Date
- Modified Date Reverse
- Front Page ordering
- Article Ordering
Easy to install, easy to add a feed. After setting up a simple news feed, I subscribed to the feed (using the URL generated by the component) with Thunderbird and that was fine. I then added an article to the category I chose for this feed, and expected the article to come up in Thunderbird, but it didn't =( I then clicked on the URL for the feed and sure enough, it's empty. What could I have done wrong? I made sure that the category is correct and not excluded..
Owner's reply
I'm not exactly sure why this issue arose, but I'd suggest you try out the new version of the component and module to see if it fixes the issue. Thanks for your feedback Dax.
Ardilla, you have to delete and create again the feed in order to make the change about the numeber of words happens.
I found this plugin very user friendly, but I have a question for the developers: how can I add the [...] to the end of the articles when I chose not to show full text?
Also, it seems that the option 'read more link' and 'add text to intro' do nothing...
Thanx for your attention.
I found this plugin very user friendly, but I have a question for the developers: how can I add the [...] to the end of the articles when I chose not to show full text?
Also, it seems that the option 'read more link' and 'add text to intro' do nothing...
Thanx for your attention.
This extension is easy to install and easy to use. Documentation was good, but leaves out things like where to put a button if you generate one, could be a bit confusing if you are new to Joomla. Other than that, it is awesome.
Owner's reply
This is a great idea! Thanks for the suggestion, we have encorporated this into the latest version! :-)
I use this component to make the RSS feed of my Joomla site valid. Since the original RSS feeds of Joomla don't provide permalink and guid support and therefore causes some errors on most RSS readers.
The component was easy to install and really self explaining.
Hope the next release of this component will also provide pubdate support.
The component was easy to install and really self explaining.
Hope the next release of this component will also provide pubdate support.
Very easy to use, nice configuration details. I had some issues early on, but I think they were related to configuration problems on my end. I contacted them for support while I was working through what ended up being my own issues, but they were very responsive and willing to help me figure it out (keep in mind ... my issues had nothing to do with their product)!
Highly recommend it.
Highly recommend it.
This extension is what i need. Very easy to use, a lot of options, and now is compatible with sh404SEF!!!
Here is the sh404SEF compatible version:
http://joomlacode.org/gf/download/frsrelease/8944/33121/com_bca-rss-syndicator1.5.19d.zip
Good job man, many thanks!
Here is the sh404SEF compatible version:
http://joomlacode.org/gf/download/frsrelease/8944/33121/com_bca-rss-syndicator1.5.19d.zip
Good job man, many thanks!
The First Comprehensive Free RSS Syndicator for J1.5!
Very easy to use!
Button Maker is simple and very useful!
It should be better if there is one more image resizing option to limit the image width and height.
Very easy to use!
Button Maker is simple and very useful!
It should be better if there is one more image resizing option to limit the image width and height.
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