[pmwiki-users] RSS Feeds (Balu's Blog)

Steve Glover steve at fell-services.net
Fri Oct 5 05:41:42 CDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 15:13 -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> If you want to limit the feed to use only those pages that
> start with a date (i.e., a '2'), you could do:
> 
>   pmwiki/pmwiki.php?trail=News.RecentChanges&action=rss&name=2*

This is great, thanks. I've also accidentally discovered that if I have
an 'n' instead of 'trail', I get my news AND my calendar in the same
feed - while there are probably circumstances this could be useful in,
I'll stick to doing it properly for now.

> Or, if you want to explicitly exclude certain pages from the feed,
> you could do:
> 
>   pmwiki/pmwiki.php?trail=News.RecentChanges&action=rss&name=-MainMenu,-SideBar

Aha. I understand how that works now. 

> Lastly, you could create specific entry in $SearchPatterns for
> this, but I suspect one of the above is easier to do.

For now, yes indeed. 

> Hope this helps,

Thanks again,

Steve

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