I am building a network of Joomla 3.x websites for a company. There will be one over-arching "master site" and then a series of "mini-sites" for each company division. Each mini-site will have its own news blog layout page.
I need to aggregate all the news from the mini-sites to the master site. My plan thus far has been to set up RSS feeds from each of the mini-site news pages and pull those feeds into the master site using menu item "news feed > single news feed".
The problem is that Joomla 3 does not seem to recognise its own RSS feeds. I think it comes down to the syntax of the URL which is...
http://minisite1.mydomain.com/news?format=feed&type=rss
When I put this URL into any other RSS reader they too throw errors so this must be where the error lies.
I must be doing something fairly fundamentally wrong here but I can't figure what it must be. Can anyone suggest a solution? Or perhaps an alternative way of aggregating content from different Joomla websites?
If you are having issues finding the RSS url on a page you can always add the
Syndication Feedsmodule (default in Joomla) to the page. The page has to be a blog layout for the module to show/work. When the module is displayed, click on the RSS icon for a new page to display the feed URL.Well once you gather each of your feeds URI's, most commonly,
minisite1.mydomain.com/news/index.php?format=feed&type=rss, you can insert them into this FREE module available from Joomla Works at: http://www.joomlaworks.net/extensions/free/simple-rss-feed-readerAfter downloading, their module allows you to display each feed merged as if it were one feed (of course the order of each displayed depends on timestamp of each post).