Very OLD Man, needs help.

I own 50+ non-commercial websites and will be adding more to the list.

They are based on 4 different genre

The largest one currently involves 15 sites.

Of those 15 sites, some of them are using Backdrop CMS and some are using forums, galleries and other database document type sites.

I would like to set things up so that when I post a “article” on the primary Backdrop CMS website, it will automatically be posted on around 12 other Backdrop websites.

I figure to use RSS for this project but since I gave up writing code back in the 1970’s, I will need lots of help understanding much of today’s code languages.

I have already added the Aggregator Module and managed the Display located on my primary site, that will be sending out the RSS, however I have not found an RSS logo or anything to link to, from my other Backdrop CMS sites.

So, if anyone can assist me in this endeavor, I would be extremely grateful.

That way, once I get the sites for one genre working, I can use it as a template for the other genres.

Thanks for any assistance.

Comments

Hi FTW. This sounds like an interesting problem, but I'm not sure I understand it completely. From what I understand, I would:

  1. Use the module views_rss in the master site to produce rss feeds 
  2. Use the module Feeds (which can read RSS feeds and create nodes based on those) to create the nodes in the 12 mirror sites

There shouldn't be any need for coding as far as I can tell. 

I do see that Views RSS doesn't have a release, so you'd need to download it directly from Github and place it in your modules directory. I'm not sure how well it works, but I do see that the maintainer pushed some changes not to long ago.

Good luck!

 

Hi Argiepiano,

Thank you for the advice.

I looked at github for the views_rss and am not exactly sure which file to download.

It seems there are about 19 files listed there and even the readme, it did not give any clue which file or files to use.

IS using something from github the only choice I have for to produce the RSS feeds?

 

 

To download views_rss click on the green "Code" button on github and then "Download zip"