Feed use

Having seen vBSEO in action on another board, I have to say I do find it to be something of a brilliant mod_rewrite package.

However, although I've used mod_rewrite on vBulletin before, one of my big disappointments was the inability to specificy category-specific feeds for publishing to pages.

This is especially important to me, because on Platinax, for example, I try to produce feeds specific to different sections in the nav (ie, business board topics showing in the nav of the business section, marketing board topics showing in the marketing section, etc).

Will it be possible to use category-specific feeds for RSS publishing with vBSEO, or is this an area it is unable to work with?

Regardless of the answer, I am impression with the degree of work that has apparently gone into this project - the mod_rewrite solution certainly seems to be the best approach I've seen with vB3.

Hi Brian,

Yes, you can have feeds for individual forums and these will point to the correct, static URLs. - - - btw, I just enabled vbseo.com's

Example:
http://www.vbseo.com/f2/rss/

Something you'll find extra cool is the custom rewrite rules... I've entered the follwing rule in the cp:

Code:

'external\.php?type=rss&forumids=4' => 'seo-general-discussion.rss'

You can then provide a static link instead for your RSS feeds. Forum 4 is the 'SEO General Discussion' and can be accessed via:
http://www.vbseo.com/seo-general-discussion.rss

Alternatively, you can make any rss feed URL static with the following custom rewrite rule:

Code:

'external\.php\?type=rss&forumids=(\d+)' => 'rssfeed-$1.html'

Or make 'type' a regex var and have it work with rss, xml & js as well

Looks excellent.

Will look forward to the release and licence purchases.

my feed doesn't seem to work

http://locoforum.com/external.php?type=RSS

does it for u ? I'm testing the ie 7 also, so that may be the reason

Link comes up fine for me. Try RSS2 for IE7.

okay, thank you