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fearmart
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05/20/12 10:29 PM (13 years ago)

What is the easiest way to read from a wordpress blog and display in the app?

I am in the process of trying to rebuild my app that was done for me by a third party using Appmakr working with Buzztouch as there are so many more options w/ Buzztouch. One the things I want to be able to do is read posts from a wordpress site and display them as tabs in the app. Basically, if you look at my app which is available on IOS and Android now: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fearfair/id464054727?mt=8 And look at the news tab, it shows a list of stories. This is being read from a wordpress blog at this url: feed://client.hauntapps.com/fearfair/news Can I do this in BT 2.0? How? Custom URL can't read the feed:// url and if I try to load the rss from within custom html it just displays a blank page.. thanks.
 
Vali
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05/21/12 01:20 AM (13 years ago)
Hi Fearmart, Have you tried using the RSS screen and input your URL (http://client.hauntapps.com/fearfair/news/) in the RSS Feed URL / Web Address? I added the RSS screen to one of my test apps and it works pretty good. Only thing, is that I don't get the images in front of each feed. But I guess it can be done easily. LE: I checked your RSS format and it seems you don't have a tag that clearly defines the image link, so I don't know how you can pull the image from the feed.
 
fearmart
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05/21/12 04:22 AM (13 years ago)
Unless I am missing something, there is no RSS screen available in 2.0?
 
Vali
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05/21/12 07:14 AM (13 years ago)
I guess you are correct. There is no RSS page in 2.0 Maybe you can try making your app in BT 1.5
 
ATRAIN53
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05/21/12 07:22 AM (13 years ago)
^^ there is a RSS for 2.0 avail here if you go BT 2.0 self hosted: http://www.buzztouchmods.com/downloads.php?cat_id=1&download_id=14 it works great but there is one bug http://www.buzztouch.com/forum/thread.php?tid=8C7B38D258F32909BD078A9&command=isSearching&currentPage=1&topicTitle=rss&createdBy=&repliedBy=&minViews=-1&maxViews=-1&minReplies=-1&maxReplies=-1&forumCategory= i try to compensate for that bug by putting a refresh button in the nav bar and linking that to the same screen. i put some 'refresh screen to see the latest news/tweets/etc....' text in my header. (lined up somewhat below the button) then if/when someone points out the bug i say - refresh the screen, the feed must be little wonky.... @Vali - for images in the feed try media:thumbnail in the Image XML element field.
 

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