Hi all,
let me suggest you to take a look at the recent improvements to the feed manager, it allows paging, excerpt, selective publishing and so on.

You can put your blog in a page of your site and consume it in another page, for instance the main page, using an instance of feed manager. In that way you can assemble a news module very quickly:

1) Add the feed RSS of your blog in the feed manager
2) Open the "Edit feed properties" panel clicking on the pencil icon at the left of the feed you just added and select the option "publish as default", so you don't have to publish each article manually
3) In the "Edit Settings" of your feed manager instance set your page size number in the box "Items for each page"
4) In the "Edit Settings" of your feed manager instance choose what you want to show: 
       - only the titles of your articles (Headings only?)
       - titles + excerpt (you can set the length in char of excerpt and the excerpt suffix)
       - author
       - all the article

Furthermore, the feed manager is also AJAX enabled, so you can navigate trough each page without refreshing the container page.
I'm using it from a while and it works well ;-)

Hi Nux,

it sounds you have an older relase of mj. The new features of feed manager are available starting from 2.2.7.6 release

@Walter,

I have the lastest version, donwloaded couple of days back.
I have found the checkbox. You have to check first the "Enable Selective Publishing" propertie in the settings of the feed manager.
Then I got that "publish as default" checkbox on the settings of the feed.
But I still don't see any content :(
When I check that checkbox on the settings of the manager, I get links for "Add/Edit Feeds - Manage Publishing"
Clicking on manage publishing shows me nothing as well.
 

@Joe

Can you let me know where i can see if the site is running in medium trust?
Cause I have my own web server, and I would be surprised if that is the standard setting for a site on IIS.

Well,

I didn't do anything special to set it up on my server: it was just click and go, thanks to you ;)

But I do get an error:

2008-10-28 05:40:40,778 ERROR mojoPortal.Web.FeedUI.FeedCache - There was a problem trying to read the feed for url http://mysite.com/blog11rss.aspx. Ignoring.
System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.
at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
at Argotic.Common.SyndicationEncodingUtility.CreateSafeNavigator(Uri source, ICredentials credentials, IWebProxy proxy, Encoding encoding)
at Argotic.Syndication.GenericSyndicationFeed.Load(Uri source, ICredentials credentials, IWebProxy proxy, SyndicationResourceLoadSettings settings)
at Argotic.Syndication.GenericSyndicationFeed.Create(Uri source)
at mojoPortal.Web.FeedUI.FeedCache.GetRssFeedEntries(Int32 moduleId, Guid moduleGuid, Int32 entryCacheTimeout, Int32 maxDaysOld, Int32 maxEntriesPerFeed, Boolean enableSelectivePublishing)
2008-10-28 05:40:40,824 ERROR mojoPortal.Web.Global - 81.83.5.19-en-GB - /aggregator19rss.aspx
System.InvalidOperationException: Can't close RssWriter without first writing a channel.
at Rss.RssWriter.Close()
at Rss.RssFeed.write(RssWriter writer)
at Rss.RssFeed.Write(Stream stream)
at mojoPortal.Web.FeedUI.FeedAggregatePage.RenderRss(Int32 moduleId)
at mojoPortal.Web.FeedUI.FeedAggregatePage.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Web.Util.CalliHelper.EventArgFunctionCaller(IntPtr fp, Object o, Object t, EventArgs e)
at System.Web.Util.CalliEventHandlerDelegateProxy.Callback(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()
at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)

(I also get errors from missing stored procedures like bannedIP and things like that, even this is a clean setup)

Joe,

I don't own mysite.com. I changed my domain with mysite.com ;).
But I guess I found  the answer: my site is secured with windows authentication. So you have to have a window user account to see the site (for now).
And perhaps, that is also the reason why I don't get an "Ignoring. System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized." logging. And I guess that the working of that reading is another process. Which doesn't have my credentials automatically.

Just guessing.

Stef

I have removed the security, and I see content. :)
But now I only see 2 items of that feed. I search furter on this one.

Thanks

Stef

I changed all that, set the cache on 0 minutes, still no affect.

But I have opened the feed settings and saved it again and not it's ok.

Hoping to have my first site online in a couple of weeks with this cms. I will let you know.

Thanks for the support.
Stef
 

Ok, feed manager added.
I tried to add a feed-> http://demo.mojoportal.com/Error.htm?aspxerrorpath=/FeedManager/FeedEdit.aspx
hit back of the browser and I see the feed.

Now I wanted to go to the home page and it gives an error.

I used http://www.nieuws.be/rss/nieuws/snelnieuws.rss

I tried with an other rss, and I haven't got that problem.
And I can't reproduce the situation i had on my server.

Joe:
So you're saying it shows only 2 posts from a single feed no matter what you do? If you go to demo.mojoportal.com and re-create the symptom I'll investigate it.

Joe, I've started all over again, and I do have again that situation with only 2 posts.
I tried it in demo.mojoportal.com and it is also there that I only see 2 posts.
So perhaps there is a bug in it.

Also, when you see more items, you got an error on the paging. If you are f.i. on the first page, the link is not a postback, but a link to a {0} page.
So I guess the format isn't correct filled in or the code for doing the postback is lost.

Stef

Hey Joe,

it's indeed with the filtering of how old the posts are. BUT, I guess the problem has to do with caching.

When I import a feed manager, and I change the settings before I add the rss, I see what I want to see.
If I first add a rss and I change the settings after that, the result is still the same.
Is the cache reset after saving the settings of a feed manager? Can you check that please?

I guess it isn't .

Thanks
Stef

Ok, cool.

Thanks
Stef