ezRSS - A Mod for Build a Niche Store
ezRSS
a BANS Mod by:
The ezRSS mod creates a live RSS feed of your BANS site. With this mod you provide an xml feed of your site for their favorite feed readers, setup a FeedBurner subscription service, add your site’s feed to many RSS directories, and more. To see what it looks like check it out on one of our testing sites HERE.
How to install ezRSS
Step 1: Upload the feed.php file into your web root (www, public_html, etc).
Step 2 (optional): Add this line right below the sitemap entry in your .htaccess file.
RewriteRule ^rss.xml feed.php [QSA,L]
Step 3 (optional): Add the following line, below the style.css entry in your header.php file.
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS” href=”<?php print URL_PATH;?>/rss.xml” />
That’s It, the ezRSS mod is now installed.
Technical Explanations
If you want to know what the heck those optional steps do, here it is. Step 2 makes it where if someone goes to yourdomain.com/rss.xml the server automatically (and silently) rewrites the rss.xml to feed.php. I feel that the rss.xml filename is more natural since that is what site feeds usually are.
Step 3 adds some code into your webpage so your visitor’s browser will display to them that a site feed is available. They can easily click the orange rss button displayed and subscribe or view your site feed.
Outro
We hope you enjoy this mod. If for any reason you can’t figure out the install, setup, or just have a question feel free to contact me or Rich through the StartaNiche website at http://startaniche.com/contact-us
Thanks,
Daniel & Rich
