Help25:Components Newsfeeds Feeds Edit

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This screen is accessed from the back-end Joomla! administrator panel. It is used to add or edit newsfeeds which can be displayed on your Joomla! website.

How to Access

To 'add' a new Newsfeed or 'edit' an existing Newsfeed, navigate to the Newsfeed Manager:

• Select Components → Newfeeds → Feeds

Click the 'New' button to create a new Newsfeed.

To 'Edit' an existing Newsfeed, in Banner Manager click on an Newsfeeds Title or click the Newsfeeds check box and then click the Edit button in the Toolbar.

Description

This is where you add a new News Feed or edit an existing one. Note that you need to create at least one News Feed Category before you can create your first News Feed.

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Details

Options

• Title. The Name of the News Feed. This field is required.

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• Link. The link of this News Feed. This should normally begin with "http://".
• Category. The Category for this News Feed. Select from the drop-down list box of News Feed Categories. Note that News Feed Categories are separate from other Categories, such as those for Articles, Contacts, Banners, and Web Links.
• State. Select from the drop-down box: Published, Unpublished, Archived, or Trashed.
• Access. The access level needed to view the link.
• Order. The order of this News Feed in the list of News Feeds. The default order is to add the item to the end of the list. To select a different position, use the drop-down list box. This item will moved to the position just after the item selected from the drop-down list. Note that the order in which the News Feeds are displayed can also be changed in the News Feed Manager.
• Language. The language of the selected feed.
• ID. The Joomla! assigned ID of the item.

Publishing Options

• Created by. Name of the Joomla! User who created this item. This will default to the currently logged-in user. If you want to change this to a different user, click the Select User button to select a different user.

• Created By Alias. This optional field allows you to enter in an alias for this Author for this Article. This allows you to display a different Author name for this Article.

• Created Date. This field defaults to the current time when the Article was created. You can enter in a different date and time or click on the calendar icon to find the desired date.

• Start Publishing. Date and time to start publishing. Use this field if you want to enter content ahead of time and then have it published automatically at a future time.

• Finish Publishing. Date and time to finish publishing. Use this field if you want to have content automatically changed to Unpublished state at a future time (for example, when it is no longer applicable).

• Number of Articles. Number of articles in the feed to display.
• Cache Time Amount of time before the cache is refreshed

• Language Direction. (Left to Right/Right to Left) Select the language direction of the newsfeed.

Display Options

• Feed Image. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Show or hide images in the feed.

• Feed Description. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Show or Hide the Feed Description.

• Feed Content. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Show or Hide the Feed Content.

• Character Count. (Integer) The number of characters to display for the feed.

• Alternative Layout. If you have defined one or more alternative layouts for the Single Article menu item, you can select the layout to use for this article. See Layout Overrides in Joomla 2.5 for more information about alternative layouts.

• Feed Display Order. (Use Global/Most Recent First/Oldest First) Choose the order to display the feed.

Metadata Options

• Meta Description. An optional paragraph to be used as the description of the page in the HTML output. This will generally display in the results of search engines. If entered, this creates an HTML meta element with a name attribute of "description" and a content attribute equal to the entered text.

• Meta Keywords. Optional entry for keywords. Must be entered separated by commas (for example, "cats, dogs, pets") and may be entered in upper or lower case. (For example, "CATS" will match "cats" or "Cats"). Keywords can be used in several ways:

1. To help Search Engines and other systems classify the content of the Article.
2. In combination with Banner tags, to display specific Banners based on the Article content. For example, say you have one Banner with an ad for dog products and another Banner for cat products. You can have your dog Banner display when a User is viewing a dog-related Article and your cat Banner display for a cat-related Article. To do this, you would:
   1. Add the keywords 'dog' and 'cat' to the appropriate Articles.
   2. Add the Tags 'dog' and 'cat' to the appropriate Banners in the Banner Manager New/Edit screen.
   3. Set the Banner module Parameter 'Search By Tags' to 'Yes in the Banner Module Edit screen.
3. For articles only, in combination with the Related Articles module, to display Articles that share at least one keyword in common. For example, if the current Article displayed has the keywords "cats, dogs, monkeys", any other Articles with at least one of these keywords will show in the Related Articles module.

• External Reference. An optional reference used to link to external data sources. If entered, this creates an HTML meta element with a name attribute of "xreference" and a content attribute equal to the entered text.

• Robots. The instructions for web "robots" that browse to this page.
  • Use Global: Use the value set in the Component→Options for this component.
  • Index, Follow: Index this page and follow the links on this page.
  • No index, Follow: Do not index this page, but still follow the links on the page. For example, you might do this for a site map page where you want the links to be indexed but you don't want this page to show in search engines.
  • Index, No follow: Index this page, but do not follow any links on the page. For example, you might want to do this for an events calendar, where you want the page to show in search engines but you do not want to index each event.
  • No index, no follow: Do not index this page or follow any links on the page.

• Content Rights. Optional metadata field to describe legal rights for the content. Creates an HTML meta element with two attributes: name equals "rights" and content equals the entered text.

Toolbar

At the top right you will see the toolbar:

The functions are:

• Save. Saves the news feed and stays in the current screen.
• Save & Close. Saves the news feed and closes the current screen.
• Save & New. Saves the news feed and keeps the editing screen open and ready to create another news feed.
• Cancel/Close. Closes the current screen and returns to the previous screen without saving any modifications you may have made.
• Help. Opens this help screen.

Quick Tips

• A News Feed category must be added before any News Feed can be created.

Related Information

• To add or edit News Feed Categories: News Feed Category Manager