I bought first Joe Workman’s stack Reblog but found out that it pulls in the whole feed. Then I purchased Rapid Idea’s News Grid stack which has many features, including the options to truncate the feed, give colors etc. I really like it.
Franz
PS: Since the News Grid was not working properly initiatlly I was in contact with their support and got a development version which does the trick. It was said that an updated version is soon to appear.
Thanks to Michael at Yuzool but I am getting a strange problem now…dont think it is the Feed stack…but can anyone help? I am get an ‘undefined’ message an no dates or images are appearing only the title…
@pigglypots I have been getting this error as well.Have emailed Michael about it and he recommended although it did not work for me. Try burning your feed in Feedburner (https://feedburner.google.com/) to cleanse it then put the Feedburner feed into the Stack and try that 
Should work!
well I am also suffering the loss of all my RSS News Feeds with RSS Factory. Today I’ve bought Yuzool Feed Stack and see that it works with external feeds bit fails on RW blog feed.
Could you please take a look into this?
I think it’s to do with:
http://www.feedvalidator.org/docs/warning/NeedDescriptionBeforeContent.html
https://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/encodingDescriptions.html
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/RSS/Article/Why_RSS_Content_Module_is_Popular_-_Including_HTML_Contents
Mozilla Developer Network
Why RSS Content Module is Popular - Including HTML Contents
RSS has long had the description element that can be used to include the contents of an item. For example, you could use it to include the entire contents of a blog post; or just a summary of it. However, the RSS description element is only suppose to be used to include plain text data. This obviously limits you. And since many people write in HTML information and formatting is lost with the RSS description element.
We are looking for <description> and RW exports as <content:encoded> as it includes the HTML parts. The description being the standard and most popular way to parse RSS feeds.
We need to test this more on RW blog specific feeds and maybe adjust the Stack to see how to get around it.
As @jakobssystems says - it works with external feeds no problem…
Found a nice way around for this and fixed it!
Will Sparkle an update in a few hours / later tonight…
This is an example of a RW Blog XML feed in the Stack version 1.3.3
From my RW blog demo: My RSS Feed
Thanks for your patience @jakobssystems @richardmaps @pigglypots 
Update has gone out! It’s Sparkled! 
Thumbs Up! Michael. Still one question: when checking “enable image” no picture is shown and the content text becomes gray in RW Feeds. Is there a trick how to enable pictures? Need I add some tags to my blogs to mark a pic as main picture?
Good question!
Text being grey - that is controlled by the theme. Can you share an example and look at an overwrite or adjust in the theme?
For the image - it should pull it in if in the RSS. I tested a few RW ones and saw the images - as long as the base URL in RW settings was set correctly! (in my demo feed it’s not set correctly so the image is missing!)
Let me know an example or get in touch with http://help.yuzoolthemes.com and do our best to sort you out with this
alrighty, and thank you for your patience…
I’ve uploaded a blank Feed page created with Foundation to https://apps.jakobssystems.de/feed/index.html
Original feed is from:
https://ul-fluglehrer.de/blog/files/feed.xml
Selected Options are:
Enable date, spell the month, use feed styles, enable SSL, Content, Image, Snippet
I’ve managed to put Feed on my page here: https://ul-fluglehrer.de
And as far as no images are in the RW generated xml file I see no chance to get any image, right?
Hope this helps…
I see there’s no images in your RSS feed… if no image in there yes there’s no chance.
Are you selecting “summary” in the RSS feed setting of RW blog? If you allow it to collate the whole article, that might work.
ja that’s right, no images in the RSS Feed for RW blogs… turning on/off Summary switch doesn’t change anything… or I am missing something? Maybe a feature request for RW’s blog function…
Hey, I also don’t remember any communication from Doobox, but they have been a pretty good community member, so I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt.
All that aside, I need a fix, because I’ve incorporated the RSS feed into almost every sit I’ve built.
I’m not really sure I understand the Yahoo solution you are talking about. Are you suggesting moving all blogs over to Yahoo, instead of Google, and then tracing the RSS from there?
I sure hope not, because that would a serious pain in the neck!
Doobox don’t even answer, will update the stack or not.
Thanks Gavin @claidheamdanns - it’s nothing to worry about, sorry should have been clearer.
Most of the developers would have been using Google to parse the feeds and have now switched to Yahoo (as Google have closed access to this). But this is just the API needed to read the feeds. It doesn’t matter where your blog is (Google, RapidWeaver, etc) this change won’t affect anything and you don’t have to move your blogs. Just be aware that any Stack still using the Google API will no longer work.
Hope that helps!
Thanks! So glad to hear that! Can you recommend some stacks that use the Yahoo API?
I typically use a blog interface to allow clients to add their own content (sort of a poor man’s CMS) — then use a stack to feature their most recent post or two on the home page.
Not 100% sure… I can speak for us, ours does:
http://demo.yuzoolthemes.com/feed/
I also think (@willwood) Will’s does, or at least it doesn’t depend on Google, so works well:
https://stacks4stacks.com/feedslider/
If you’re running Blogs as a mini-CMS maybe consider RW Writer?
https://rwwriter.com/
It’s a good approach as sometimes you don’t want the client to control the whole site as can be overload sometimes
Sorry, but I do not understand, a good developer is so difficult to change the API in the stack? Or are stacks of disposable? It does not work any stack, you have to throw and to make a new, took the money for the same thing (in fact).
@yuzool Thanks for the mention!
Yes, FeedSlider is ancient. It is one of the first stacks I built and publically released. FeedSlider uses its own engine to parse XML / RSS and convert it into HTML as the page loads. Zero dependencies on Google, Yahoo or other outside services. It’s very simple, and I guess that’s why it’s continued to work so well over all these years. I’ve not updated it in ages.
In recent weeks a couple of people have come to me asking about what to use for embedding RSS feeds in webpages. I thought there were plenty of solutions available for RapidWeaver already, but that seems to not be the case?
I know that RSS is being promoted a lot less nowadays, in favour of social media. Chrome dropped support for RSS at about the same time Google axed its Reader service. From what I see, RSS is mostly used internally on websites to drive news-tickers and news feeds on other pages; rather than the public to subscribe to feeds.
If there is demand for a new RSS stack (for example, something derived from FeedSlider, but without the sliding functionality) then I can consider putting something new together. It would be best to email me direct through the website with details of what you’re using currently and what you want to see (feature-wise) in a new RSS stack.
I too have had to delete RSS Factory, which is a shame cause it was perfect for a static layout of new blog posts. I have tried yuzool’s and will woodgate’s alternate feed stacks as mentioned in these threads, and can get neither to pull content in from a rapidweaver blog page.
Validating the xml for RW’s standard 5.4.1 version blog page fails.
Can anyone test this address and see if they know what the story is?
