I just moved my blog to K2. I use feedburner to track and monetize my blog and now I need K2 to link to my feedburner account and not the default ?format=feed

I don't see any setting to change it so where and in what file can I make the alteration?

Hi Randy

I'm trying to do exactly what you posted about a very long time ago... Did you find a solution?

Thanks
Pam

Pam and Randy, is it possible that no one felt the need to monitor and extend their rss use?
Please, if anyone used feedburner successfully, let us know!

I am also having trouble using the RSS link from my K2 category.

This is the RSS link
openbarmusicnyc.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&layout=category&task=category&id=2&Itemid=125&format=feed

But I get the following error message from feedburner when I paste it in:
The URL does not appear to reference a valid XML file. We encountered the following problem: Error on line 128: The element type "description" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "".

Where is the XML that it is referencing and can I just add the matching end-tag to it to make it work.

Thanks,
Eric

is there any answer to this?

So here is the deal and I will create a youtube vid when this is all over and it will tell you how to take your blogs on your website and combine them all to a latest blogs format and give an RSS feedlink that can be brought into Feedburner )) Happy Happy Days

1.) First, go to your K2 global parameters settings in your K2 component and enable RSS Feeds and if your using feedburner then leave the settings the same only changing something like feed count (for large blog communities on your site you might to want this number to be higher lets say 100 or something. Click Save and go to your modules.

2.) Second, go modules and type K2 and go to the module K2_content. Go in there and set up your parameters to be the same pretty much for RokNewsPager settings. Now, don't try to be slick and choose settings that probably won't work for what content to show i.e. like most commented if you're using Jcomments... Jcomments has its own RSS feed capabilities and if someone wants to subscribe to comments they can via your Jcomments but I digress. Just don't do it. leave at default or latest (i think are the same) for mine I left it at default.
Then go to the bottom or where it says RSS icon below and make sure that is a yes.
***Make sure to also put in your item number here. It is very important because these settings in this module override the global settings it seem like. In fact now that I am thinking I think the global settings might just be for the User (blog) pages... Again, make it height if you have a lot of blogs and what not. mines at 100 for now.

3.) for now put the module in a placement that is visible ***FOR NOW**** you need the link right :-)))
Ok with that said, go to your page look at the setup make sure it is too your liking as far as content is concerned i.e. avatars won't show up in RSS feeds per say with this link so don't worry about stuff like that.

4.) Make sure TO NOT set up a content limiter i.e. 10 words to get a link back if your going to use Feedburner... You can set this up with them and it will be MUCH Better so just leave this as is... Remember at the end of this you're going to get a feedburner link that you can attach to whatever little icon or thing your want to :-) So let FeedB do the work.

5.) Once you have the link via right click and copy shortcut that is all you need for Feedburner or at the very least attaching a link that is a lot more attractive than a little RSS Icon they give you.

6.) Now lastly, and most importantly!!! Make sure this module is ENABLED but on the menu items choose NONE... TADA...

You now have a FEED LINK that can be used for FEEDBURNER or whatever and you don't have the UGLY Latest Content from K2 to deal with.

So happy

Pretty confusing. Did anyone have success with this using these steps? Is this to integrate a module or the RSS feed for the whole site?

sorry if it is confusing. but just think of it like this. When dealing with K2 you have to be very careful in how you set up your page. For example go to my website and see my "blogs" page... when you go there you will see blogs at the bottom. These blogs are a collection of categories that are coming into my blogs page as "fetched items" in my Blogs category parameters. <<

Ok, now if I want my feed from my blogs page I could include the rss feed that comes with the blogs page category... but if I have more blogs coming from categories that are not nested underneath my blogs category than I am stuck because K2 does not allow multiple category listings and still be able to work (regarding the read more feature)...

With that said if you set up a module you it is just easier to include whatever categories you want and use that RSS feed into feedburner. i.e. you could rss feed all the blogs and or categories on your site.

does that make more sense? if so the steps should make more sense.

Susan Kledzik said:Pretty confusing. Did anyone have success with this using these steps? Is this to integrate a module or the RSS feed for the whole site?

i think what he is doing is using the default rss to get the link that you need
5.) Once you have the link via right click and copy shortcut that is all you need for Feedburner or at the very least attaching a link that is a lot more attractive than a little RSS Icon they give you.
then turning it off everywhere but leave it enabled so it will work.
then use the link to create a menu item with to display the contents.

No again, I am sorry to be confusing at all about this but I am going to try and clear it up in one sentence.

Using the content module will allow you to add whatever categories you want and then you will be able to use that RSS feed for feedburner and hence your sites feed.

Sorry, one more sentence. If you want an RSS feed to a directly menu linked categoried page then you do not need to do this procedure.

William White said:i think what he is doing is using the default rss to get the link that you need5.) Once you have the link via right click and copy shortcut that is all you need for Feedburner or at the very least attaching a link that is a lot more attractive than a little RSS Icon they give you.then turning it off everywhere but leave it enabled so it will work.then use the link to create a menu item with to display the contents.