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Subscribing to RSS feeds - Drupal Tutorial
From the course: Drupal 7 Essential Training
Subscribing to RSS feeds
Running a web site is a lot of work, and it's made even harder if you personally create all the content. But what webmasters have discovered over the past 15 years is that visitors get as much value from borrowed and user created content as the exclusive webmaster-created stuff. We've talked a fair amount about user-created content. Besides blogs and comments and forum posts, you could give users permission to simply create articles and nodes of other content types. But let's look now at how to display content taken from other web sites by subscribing to the news feeds that those sites provide. I have to emphasize that we're not talking about stealing content; we are only using stuff that others have released specifically so we could republish it. I'll show you a few quick examples. On my own web site, I write a blog, and you see those post right here. These in the left-hand columns are nodes on this site, but over here in this right-hand column is a feed that's coming from an outside…
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