News Feed pages

[kkoa]

Hey Truman,

It seems like there's no way to make a master "news feed" page under which all the newsfeeds could be accessed.  I tried making one by choosing no particular newsfeed, but it just says "no news available".

How would you suggest deploying newsfeeds in a centralized way?

[Truman]

Hi Koa, right you would publish one news feed at a time. Can you describe to me the situation where you would like recent articles from all feeds displayed on a single page?

[kkoa]

Hey Truman,

I'm thinking we're going to be having testimonies written up pretty soon.  Then we'd have some stories about the new church office.  Then we'd have some stories about an upcoming event, or how an event  went.  I'd see these all as coming from different newsfeeds.  Testimonies, Church Info, Events. 

The page wouldn't have to display the recent stories from all of them, but at least provide links to all newsfeeds so that someone interested in news could go there.

OR AM I THINKING OF NEWSFEEDS ON TO "MICRO" A LEVEL?  Maybe we just need one feed that's the "allchurch news" and it has categories like "Testimonies, Church Info, Events details, etc." hmm...

[Truman]

Okay, I see. My recommendation is to use one news feed for all your stories and just like you said, use the categories for the different story types. Then later on if someone wants to do a blog, then make another newsfeed.

I have two newsfeeds currently up on my site which you can take a look at for examples:

My Bible Blog
http://www.ascribedata.com/blog.php

Tech Central
http://www.ascribedata.com/tech_central.php

Tech Central is a newsfeed with multi-paged article setting. I'm still working on perfecting this. The blog is using the single-page article mode and works well.

In the future, I will upgrade the news feed module to allow visitors to comment on articles like is possible in popular blogging software.

[kkoa]

Yes, I see.  Cool, made the change.

My Abstracts don't seem to be showing up.  Please see: http://www.ehawaiikai.org/newsfeeds.html.  I have one article here.  The title, author, and body are listed but the abstract is not.

Thanks,
Koa

[Truman]

Hi Koa,

Didn't see this post until now. The abstract doesn't show up in the article, but only in the listing of articles. The abstract is used as teaser text. If you want it also to show up in the article then you'll need to add it to the body of the article.

Truman

[Bridgecity]

Hey Truman,

In this post you talk about using the newsfeed tool as a blog and gave this example:

Okay, I see. My recommendation is to use one news feed for all your stories and just like you said, use the categories for the different story types. Then later on if someone wants to do a blog, then make another newsfeed.

I have two newsfeeds currently up on my site which you can take a look at for examples:

My Bible Blog
http://www.ascribedata.com/blog.php

Tech Central
http://www.ascribedata.com/tech_central.php

Tech Central is a newsfeed with multi-paged article setting. I'm still working on perfecting this. The blog is using the single-page article mode and works well.

In the future, I will upgrade the news feed module to allow visitors to comment on articles like is possible in popular blogging software.

Your final sentence about allowing comments is spot in.  If you had commenting, then this aspect of ascribe would be able to replace the toold we're currently using (Blogger) for posts where we want to get feedback or comments.  I would love this!