My rss feed url is not displaying information about my website - joomla

I have this as my rss feed url: http://africanquarters.com/index.php?format=feed&type=rss
It does not display my content, but displays data that has nothing to do with my daily changing content. I'm using joomla 1.7. What am I doing wrong?

The rss feed output for a given page varies depending upon the type of page (and probably withe the version of Joomla). For Joomla 1.5 the rss feed was only populated with articles that you marked as 'frontpage' (which is now called 'featured' in Joomla 1.7).
Is this the issue. The articles in the feed are 'featured' and your day in, day out changes which aren't represented in the feed are not marked as frontpage/featured?

Related

url is scraped but still og tags are not updating on facebook page post

I published a post on page.Published post has correct og:tags but when I am updating my tags these tags are not showing changed on my FB page.
I have tried debug tool and curl both. Debugger tool is showing changed values similarly curl's response is showing scraped response with time but in both the situation my page is not showing changed values.
Please help.
Posts don’t get updated automatically, just because you change the OG meta tags later.
Take a second to think about it - if I made you share a funny kittykat picture today, and tomorrow switched out thumbnail and description for “buy ch3ap v1agr4 here” ... that could hardly be in your interest as a Facebook user.
Users/pages will have to explicitly ask Facebook to update the data for existing posts. There is an option for that in the UI, the dropdown menu for the individual post has a “refresh share attachment” entry.

Facebook feed dialog deprecating custom fields

Facebook Feed Dialog 2.9 has deprecated the custom fields (name, caption, picture, description) - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/reference/feed-dialog.
I'm working on an AJAX site where all content and metadata is loaded dynamically. If I just use the link property, the metadata isn't set on initial retrieval of the page so the post doesn't contain the right content.
How can I share an AJAX page on Facebook without having to go down the route of prerendering static pages server side? Thanks
If you can program your page to populate the appropriate metatags on the page load based off of a variable http:/yoursite.com/yourpage.php?thisversion=1 then when you want to share version 1 of the page, you just share the URL with the appropriate variable to populate it. You can still remain on your current version of the page but when you share the URL that would prompt that specific version, facebook makes a call to that respective URL and pulls the appropriate metatags that would be populated by your variable without having to reload the page your are currently displaying. Sorry I don't have time at the moment but will try and comeback and add some sample code for clarity.

Joomla - Pulling in articles to an external website through RSS or other method?

I have an external website that I want to have pull content from my Joomla website. Ideally by an RSS feed.
The external website will have a 'thumbnail' that represents the article.
Is it possible to add a custom field to Joomla's New Article page where a user can select a thumbnail from the media library / upload from their computer and send the URL/Path value of the image along with the Article Title and Article Content to the external site through RSS?
If you use K2 you can do that... Each k2 item supports an image that also shows up in RSS feed links!
Also... I think zoo supports that functionality as well!

What to put in HTML snapshot for hash-bang URL for SEO?

I am using hash-bang URLs in my AJAX application and I am implementing the server-side for:
handle ?_escaped_fragment_=key1=value1%26key2=value2
So when I look at Google's FAQ, it says that this URL has an equivalent snapshot
It is easy to see that the snapshot content is not the same as corresponding hash-bang url. This Google example does not help and therefore my question:
My HTML page has three components/panels/sections that are being updated by AJAX. I use the onclick event on the hash-bang URLs to fetch the content from server and then update relevant section of the HTML page. My panels are updated independent of each other and each panel has its own hash-bang URL .
My question is:
Should the HTML snapshot contain the entire page with all 3 sections or only the updated section?
If I am to return the entire page, it is almost impossible to get the state of the other 2 sections correctly, so would the Googlebot reject my site if the other 2 sections are returned in their default state ?
this is a good question, sadly no answer for this one :( im looking for the same. My problem is that EVERYTHING are news loaded with ajax, so each news is actually a little peace of text so im asking myself if my snapshots should be only the current new or a full page with all the info that i have in my home plus current new's content
Do you have news about that topic ?

get title and url of the previous page on Magento

I'm trying to get title and url of the previous page the customers visited in Magento.
We can get the URL via $ _SERVER ['HTTP_REFERER'] variable but not sure how to get it's title.
Would appreciate any help on this issue or maybe different approaches how to display the previous page (url + title) in Magento
This information isn't sent normally, so you may want to add an observer to the page that saves the last title in the session. The trick will be that this will save the last page from /any/ tab, not necessarily for the referring page. You could save all titles from pages this way, but you'd have to hold onto everything (they could click the link a second time consecutively, etc etc). This may also run into issues with full page caching.
I know this is old but fyi you can JavaScript to the page and use
alert(document.referrer);
Since the numbers of web users with JavaScript turned on (~98%) and most site requirements it's safe. You would be able to make all adjustments to the DOM with that. Just one way of getting what you need.

Resources