feeds
what is it?
Using the feed module, you can enter RSS feeds that you would like to monitor. This acts as a reader inside the back end of the application as you can choose to have your favorite ones appear in the sidebar of your XLsuite back end.
Additionally, you can REPUBLISH them, by using the "Render Feed" syntax. This allows you to combine several feeds for example, tag them all as "news" and then render the "news" feed - either by date, or randomly. This is great for creating auto updating content sites.
how to get there ?
Admin > RESOURCES > Content > Feeds
create
Create a new feed by saving the URL of the feed, making a label for it, a description and tagging it whatever you would like. Make sure you press the little green arrows to update your feed, this is helpful to manually update the feed from a remote location if you know that content has been updated and it is not yet reflected on your site.
display
{ % render_feed tagged_any:"tag1" count:3 order:"by_date" display:"full" % }
Remove the space between the { and % to actually make it render
tagged
when you create a feed you add e few tags that define it and, upon display, identify it
count
the number of items showed
order
the order they are being displayed
options: by_date, by_date, by_date
display
The display options are: title, summary which also allows you to truncate_to="number of caracters" and full
troubleshoothing
if you think you have correctly followed all the steps and still you couldn't get your feed to be displayed at all, hit once the small green button to refresh your feed and register its content in the system