TYPO3: Quick RSS feed of tt_news

Posted on March 15, 2009Maarten2 Comments »

RSS-feeds of tt_news are really simple. To make it even more easy just copy-paste this to your TypoScript setup:

plugin.tt_news {
# SYS-Folder with newsitems
pid_list =
# Page with single view
singlePid =
displayXML {
  xmlTitle = Your RSS title
  xmlLink = Your website url
  xmlDesc = Your RSS description
  subheader_stdWrap.crop = 250 | ... | 1
  }
}

Now just go to your homepage and add &type=100 to the url! You’re done

There are a few more options, but above are the most important. See the tt_news manual for a complete reference!

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  • Michael Cannon says:
    March 16, 2009 at 03:19

    If you take this route, be sure to set the singlePid else your RSS titles won’t be linking to the articles correctly.

    Next, per SEO research, it’s better to deliver full content via your RSS feed than limiting content. As such, a trick to do this is adding the following TypoScript to your setup section.

    –
    xmlnews.config.absRefPrefix = http://www.example.com/
    xmlnews.10 {
    displayXML {
    subheader_stdWrap.stripHtml = 0
    subheader_stdWrap.htmlSpecialChars = 1
    subheader_stdWrap.htmlSpecialChars.preserveEntities = 1
    subheader_stdWrap.crop = 9999 | … | 1
    }
    }
    –

    If you write really, really long articles of more than 1,600 words, add another 9 to 9999.

    If you’re going to give the feed URL to Google as a news sitemap, validate it via http://feedvalidator.org/.

    On a marketing note, use this generated RSS feed for Google sitemap, but then use a Feedburner RSS for announcing it on your website.

    An example of adding the RSS feed to your website HTML headers via TypoScript template setup section.
    –
    page.headerData.10 = TEXT
    page.headerData.10.value (

    )
    –

  • Norman says:
    December 29, 2011 at 16:59

    subheader_stdWrap.crop >
    thats all you need to get rid of the cropping

 

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