Module/component for replication of content on multiple sites? SOLVED
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- Natalie D.
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First - hello all! I'm new to RocketTheme and am just getting a handle on Joomla basics but am very excited about the possibilities. My primary background is as a graphic designer/information architect/interaction designer, but I'm comfortable working with complex CSS and HTML, etc. Anyway, just a brief intro.
I have several projects coming up for which I would like to create Joomla-based sites and have encountered a few questions i have not yet found answers/solutions for -- (yes, I have RTFM! ) -- and I am hoping someone out there might be able to help. Here's my first quandary:
I will be creating three separate but related sites and my client would like the ability to be able to share content between the sites without having to cut and paste the content each time... (there are likely to be different groups of people responsible for managing the content of the different sites). So what I'd like is basically the ability to syndicate content from specific portions of specific pages on a specific site and be able to pull the feeds in to one or more of the other sites -- again on specific portions of specific pages. Or something like that.
Let me give you a couple of examples..
Example one: All three sites will have resource listings that will get regularly updated. My client would like to have the resource listing from site A appear on sites B and C; the listing from site B appear on sites A and C; etc. Ideally, these different pieces of info would all be together on one page within each site, not on separate pages.
A second example: The three sites (FYI, they are related medical associations) would like to create a joint calendar shared by the three sites, but where each association would be responsible for updating its own event information. I.e., the pediatric site would update info on pediatric conferences, the Europe-wide site would update the Europe events, etc. It would be nice but not mandatory for all the various January events to be together under a January heading, all the Feb events to be together under Feb, etc. I realize that if the event listings were grouped by month that this poses a somewhat different challenge than if they are not. It is also an option for all the pediatric events to be listed for the year, followed by the EU-wide events, etc., although this organization would be somewhat less user-friendly.
If the sites didn't need a CMS, and if my client could deal with some basic HTML, i would probably just set up includes for the purpose described above, but I'm hoping there's a more elegant solution. From my reading of the Joomla user manual, the syndication option is only available for content from the Frontpage. The resource list and calendar I'm referring to would be inside page content so as far as I understand the built-in syndication option would not work.
Any ideas? Is there a cool module or component out there someone might be able to recommend? Have I missed the boat and this is already possible within Joomla as is?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts and help!
Natalie
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- Peter Osipof
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Re: Module/component for replication of content on multiple sites? SOLVED
Posted 18 years 4 months ago-
You'll need to add multisite component.
extensions.joomla.org/component/option,c...t_id,1790/Itemid,35/
but before you go ahead wait for other users input, someone might have done something similiar before. - VirtueShop
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- Stew Thompson
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Re: Module/component for replication of content on multiple sites? SOLVED
Posted 18 years 4 months ago-
I think that you are correct for the most part. The syndication option is probably the only way to achieve the article situation that you want. In my opinion you will need a little more than the stock syndicaiton componenet that comes with Joomla. You will need a more powerful syndicaiton admin component that will allow you to synd certian categories of new stories. I use DS-Syndicate and works very well to syndicate as many feeds as you like. DS-Syndicate
extensions.joomla.org/component/option,c...nk_id,193/Itemid,35/
Now, there is also a component that will import synidccation links and create a new article so you don't have to copy/paste. For example, on my site I have a feed from YouTube that I import and it creates a new article for each video. You could do this with your multiple sites. Here is the page on my site: www.bentonhighschool.com/content/category/1/209/742/
I use Feed Gator for this: extensions.joomla.org/component/option,c...nk_id,494/Itemid,35/
As for the calendar, I will have to let someone else help you on that one. I have a calandar component on my site, but I am not sure if there is one that you will be able to use across multiple sites.
Hope this helps. - www.bentonhighschool.com/
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- Natalie D.
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Re: Module/component for replication of content on multiple sites? SOLVED
Posted 18 years 4 months ago- Thanks Stew and Peter. I just looked up the links you provided. These are some interesting options. Please excuse my ignorance since I'm new to this, but a thought just occurred to me -- is there a way that a wrapper could work? Or would a wrapper just make things more complicated rather than less?
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- Stew Thompson
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Re: Module/component for replication of content on multiple sites? SOLVED
Posted 18 years 4 months ago- I am not sure how it could work, but I tend not to use a wrapper unless totally necessary.
- www.bentonhighschool.com/
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- Natalie D.
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