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The Syndicate Component controls the settings related to the Syndication
of your site's contents via RSS and related protocols (e.g., Atom).
To display the syndication links to your site visitors you must
publush the Syndicate Module. Details
- Cache: Choose the 'Yes' radio button to create and display a new Newsfeed dependant on the value set in the Cache Time field. Choose the 'No' radio
button to display a new Newsfeed each time an item is
added to the FrontPage Component and each time the Newsfeed
is accessed by another server. Warning: Setting Cache
to 'No' will cause your Newsfeed to be checked
every time someone visits any site where your Newsfeed
is syndicated. This can potentially cause excessive
bandwidth usage as well as extreme draw on your server
resources.
- Cache Time: This is the number of seconds
before your site's database is checked for updates. The
default in Mambo is 3600 seconds, or 60 minutes. After this
time has elapsed, the Newsfeed will refresh itself from your
database thus displaying any new items you have published
through the FrontPage Component to your Newsfeed.
- #Items: Enter the number of items you would
like to syndicate and display in your Newsfeed.
- Title: Enter the title you wish to display
above your articles within your syndicated Newsfeed when
it is displayed on those sites and pages which syndicate
your Newsfeed. The title will appear as a link to your site.
- Description: Enter a brief
statement to describe your Newsfeed. If none is entered,
it will default to "Mambo site syndication".
- Image: Select an image from the drop-down menu to be included in your Newsfeed. If you do not have an image, you can upload one via the Media Manager.
- Image Alt: Enter the text for
the “alt" tag to compliment the image you've
selected for inclusion in the Newsfeed via the Image drop-down
menu.
- Limit Text: Choose
the 'Yes' radio button if you wish to limit the Text Length field. Choose the 'No' radio
button to force the value in the Text Length field to be
ignored, thus displaying the entire contents of each item.
- Text Length: Enter the number of words to
display per Newsfeed item. NOTE: The
Limit Text radio button must be set to 'YES' to activate
this function.
- Order: Set the order that items as listed
in the FrontPage Manager will be displayed.
- 'Default': Arranges items according
to the order set in the FrontPage Manager.
- 'FrontPage Ordering': Same as above.
- 'Oldest first': Arranges items in chronological
order, with the oldest items first.
- 'Most recent first': Arranges items
in chronological order, with the newest items first.
- 'Title Alphabetical': Arranges items
by title in alphabetical order.
- 'Title Reverse-Alphabetical': Arranges
items in reverse-alphabetical order.
- 'Author Alphabetical': Arranges items
by author in alphabetical order.
- 'Author Reverse-Alphabetical': Arranges
items by author in reverse alphabetical order.
- 'Most Hits': Arranges items according
to the number of hits, with the items with the
most hits first.
- 'Least Hits': Arranges items according
to the number of hits, with the items with the
least hits first.
- Live Bookmarks: Activate support
for Firefox Live Bookmark functionality.
- Bookmark
File: Special file name. If none is entered,
will use the default file.
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