Example RSS feed from Siteflex, showing only recent updates to the Showcase section of the siteRSS feeds are great for automatically keeping people up to the minute with the latest website happenings and for linking up with third party tools.

With that in mind, we have just introduced a way to flexibly craft up your own custom RSS feed for Recent Page updates; a URL you can then pass around and use with various third party tools.

Advanced Users: How to craft your own customised Recent Pages RSS

• Identify which pages you'd like to have as a part of your RSS feed. Note their Parent Page IDs (this can be found in Siteflex Admin, the address bar being the quickest method).
  
  Example: to display all latest updates to the Siteflex Case Studies, I'd get the ID of the case studies page from Edit Web Pages. In this case the ID is 5387.
   
• Append this Page ID to the standard Recent Pages RSS URL. This is done by adding "&m=" and the Page ID to the RSS URL.
  
  Example: http://www.siteflex.com.au/libs/rss.asp?type=pages becomes http://www.siteflex.com.au/libs/rss.asp?type=pages&m=5387
  
  
• For multiple Page branches, identify further Page IDs and add them, comma separated, onto the crafted RSS URL.
  
  Example: To turn my "Case Studies Updates" RSS feed into a "Showcase Updates" I can add the Showcase Page's ID (3659) to the URL: http://www.siteflex.com.au/libs/rss.asp?type=pages&m=5387,3659
  
  

Tip: Unticking the Index Page option under the Search Engines area in Page Properties will ensure the Page is not listed in any RSS feeds.

We're hoping this feature will lend a hand to advanced users in getting the most out of their Siteflex website, allowing a flexible set of content to be pushed to an RSS feed.