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A Movable Type plugin to the Action Streams plugin that adds Atom and RSS feed services
The Action Streams plugin is great, but one area it causes trouble for some users is that there is no Atom or RSS feed service. The closest option is to use the Website service and hope that auto-discovery will find the feed you want, but there are many circumstances where that simply isn’t a feasible option. This plugin remedies that with Atom and RSS services.
Determining the type of feed
Yes, this plugin would be a little more user-friendly if it auto-discovered what kind of feed you supplied, but it doesn’t do that. It’s easy enough for you to determine what type of feed you are looking at, and from there you can choose the Atom or RSS service.
Atom
View source, and after the “” and “” elements—it’s Atom!
RSS
RSS = Just about anything else. View source and quickly scan and you should see many “
Dan is an engineering creative and uses his vast knowledge of the web to solve unique client problems with specialized solutions. Complex or straightforward, his focus is to find the most efficient, functional, elegant, and stable solutions for each project. 10 years in web engineering and 14 more in the print publishing industry give him a special insight to the needs, restrictions, and workflows of content publishers, both traditional and new media. Dan is an active Movable Type community member who has written and contributed to countless plugins including some of the most popular: More Custom Fields, Poll Position, and Asset Image Quality.