Create an RSS Feed Button with Caption

By (user deleted)

Description

Wikidot provides some interesting ready-made RSS Feeds that you can offer to the public at http://community.wikidot.com/help:rss#toc3. If you're like me, getting that RSS feed URL into a nice button and caption that fits into your side-bar may not be self-evident. Here are the steps:

Code

1. First you need to decide which RSS Feed you want to make available. For my example, I'll just use the "any changes" feed which is http://your-wiki-site-name.wikidot.com/feed/site-changes.xml

2. Next you need an RSS icon. For the example below, I used a small, horizontal icon that measures 36 x 13 pixels called rss-feed-blue.gif.

4. Once you have your icon, upload it to nav:side (or to some other page), using the Files…Upload a file…etc. at the bottom of the page.

4. Now open up your side-bar page for editing, place your cursor where you want the RSS Feed button to appear, and insert the hyperlink as follows:

[*http://your-site.wikidot.com/feed/site-changes.xml Get RSS Feed]

5. Now you have a link to the RSS Feed, which may be all you want, but I wanted a button to accompany the link. If you want that too, keep going…

6. Turn your link into a Div section by adding [[div]] and [[/div]] before and after the code. Also give the section an appropriate class name as follows:

[[div class="RSS-Button"]]
[*http://your-site.wikidot.com/feed/site-changes.xml Get RSS Feed]
[[/div]]

What this does is it gives you a handle you can use to apply CSS code for formating.

7. Now add a CSS module at the beginning of the page as follows:

[[module css]]

[[/module]]

The CSS module allows you to insert CSS code into any wiki page without adding it to your theme's style page. Pretty cool hugh?

8. Within that module, add the CSS code that will add an image to the background of the RSS Feed link that you created above. Notice that I'm placing the image to the left and center of the link. Notice also that I allowed 38 pixels of space to the left of the link. That is the length of the icon plus a couple pixels more to add some space between it and the link. The code should look like this when you're done:

[[module css]]
div.RSS-Button a {
    background: transparent url(http://your-site.wikidot.com/local--files/nav:side/rss-feed-blue.gif) no-repeat left center;
    padding-left: 38px;
}
[[/module]]

[[div class="RSS-Button"]]
[*http://your-site.wikidot.com/feed/site-changes.xml Get RSS Feed]
[[/div]]

That's it! If all worked, then you should have something that looks like the example below.

In action


Thanks to tsangk for this great snippet: conditional-blocks


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