How To: Manage RSS Feeds in CP5

Unlike most every CMS I have come across, managing the RSS feed is a chore and takes a lot of time that it should not. In order for the breadcrumb trail to work, you need to create the articles under the sub menu Pages. In our case, that would be like Sports under Our Views.

However, to get all the Sports articles to also show up in the main RSS feed, the articles have to be "copied" into the Articles tab of the root of the tree, BG Views. Click the thumbnail to the right to see the tab with a big red arrow pointing to it.

Click the Edit button, this allows you to use the Copy/Paste buttons. From the left frame click the Search tab, then Advanced. Select "latest hour" (you will be doing this right after you finish putting the articles in) then select "Saved by me" and click Search. You can now copy all the section specific articles into the main RSS feed by Copy/Paste into the Articles tab.

Campus Blotter
The Campus Blotter has a special section page at the root of the tree in the left frame. This is because you cannot hide sub menu items (which is lame). Be sure and go to the Campus Blotter Page and "copy" the blotter if you added one that day.

Once done, the section specific RSS feeds work, and the main RSS feed works, making all of our readers who love RSS (like me) happy.