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Feed Importer is a tool that delivers news directly to you as soon as it is published online. Simply, the role of Feed Importer plug-in is to gather and display web feeds (a data format used for serving frequently updated information to the users) from various sites in one place.
Feed Importer allows you to see when websites have added new content. You can get the latest news in one place, without having to visit the websites you have taken the feed from.
Feeds are also known as RSS. That stands for Really Simple Syndication and it is based on XML, a widely used standard for textual information exchange between applications on the Internet.
Subscribing to feeds makes it possible to review a large amount of online content in a very short time. It means you can receive new stories and headlines instantly, rather than having to look for the latest updates online. RSS also makes it much easier to browse headlines from lots of different sites in one place
You need to access to the Plug-ins section. Click on the Plug-ins link which is located in the Main menu at the top of your administration panel.
You should have all the installed plug-ins listed on your left-hand side.
A list of all plug-ins currently registered to the system is displayed on the right hand side of the screen.
To install Feed Importer you need to click on the install icon on the right side of the plug-in name.
This will take you to the page with the installation link: Click here to Install the plug-in
After you run the installation, you will be informed that the plug-in was successfully installed.
You may easily go back to the Plug-ins page, by following the link: Click here to go to Plug-in
To uninstall Feed Importer you need to click on the uninstall icon on the right side of the plug-in namev
This will take you to the page with the link for uninstall: Click here to Uninstall the plug-in
You will be informed that the plug-in was successfully uninstalled and you may return to the Plug-ins page by clicking the link: Click here to return to Plug-in home page
The path to the Feed Importer plug-in:
Click on Plug-ins link (which is located in Main menu at the top of your administrator panel)
Choose Feed Importer plug-in from the list of all installed plug-in (on the left side of the screen)
This plug-in can be accessed only by users with administrator-level privileges.
Use this section to adjust the following, default options for Feed Importer:
Feed Importer - Choose the user (staff) who owns the fetched article feeds
Default status - set the status (Active/Pending) for all articles added by Feed Importer
Auto SEfriendly - select the default value for SEfriendly option. Choose 'yes' if you want to an SE friendly name be created for every article you add (system will automatically create search engine friendly name, including all alphabetic characters and numbers from 0-9)
SEfriendly number of words - if you choose 'yes' for Auto SEfriendly option, then you should set the number of words that will be used by search engines. These words will be automatically generated by the system using the article’s title.
Auto archive - choose this option if you want to enable automatic news archive by Cron Job, within a time interval that you specify (the number of days you enter). That will automatically archive all articles added via Feed Importer.
Enter 0 if you don't want articles to be archived.
Auto delete - choose this option if you want to delete news periodically by Cron Job, within a time interval that you specify (the number of days you enter). That will automatically delete all the articles added via Feed Importer.Enter 0 if you don't want articles to be deleted
Execution period - to enable automatic news fetching, you need to activate Cron Job that will fetch the news automatically within a time interval that you set, by entering the number of hours.
Most major news sites and blogs now offer RSS feeds. First, you need to sign up to the RSS feeds from your favorite sites. Before that, you need to clarify if the website syndicates any content via feeds. Websites that syndicate their content have usually icons similar to those above displayed on the pages. Click on the icon and you will be taken to the feed page. You need to copy the address of this page to Feed Importer.
This will load the form where you can easily add the feed to one of your categories.
Category - from the dropdown menu, you may choose a desired category where you want this new feed to appear.
Feed URL - enter the RSS link by cutting and pasting the URL address into this field
Feed author - type in the name that will be displayed as the author of articles from this feed. If you leave this field empty, the original author from the feed will be displayed.
Choose Save button and you are done. The confirmation message: "Feed edit success" will appear.
To invoke this window choose the edit icon on the right side of the plug-in name. This is used to edit the subscribed feed. By clicking Save button you will save all changes for selected feed and close this window.
To permanently remove the feed, click on the delete icon on the right side of the plug-in name.
By clicking Save button you will save all the changes for the feed and close this window.
You are allowed to include more feeds per category.
The specific feed cannot be used more than once, it must be unique.