Thanks for the suggestions, Glen, but I am trying to keep the site front
page plain HTML (partially because I don't monitor all the time, and if
Roller crashes - not that it ever would, of course, but anyway :-) - I'd
prefer to have the front page stay up). If I just want to create a URL
where I can access the feed as the output from a Velocity snippet, how
could I add that to Roller? I see I can just add a JSP directly in the
root directory, but it's not clear to me how I can attach that to a
Velocity snippet inside Roller to give me back the list of posts.
- Dennis
On 03/27/2014 11:50 AM, Glen Mazza wrote:
Oops, misunderstood your request. You can access the underlying
database directly, or rely on either the RSS or Atom feeds with a
mixture of CSS -- a google is showing there's several websites around
on mixing CSS & RSS/Atom. There are also Meta Weblog and Blogger APIs
meant for interfacing with desktop client blogging tools that you
might also be able to pull data out with -- look for the "EditURI"
link in the HTML header when viewing the HTML source of your blog.
Alternatively, make the front page of your site Roller by creating
another quasi-blog using the built-in "front page" theme that you can
modify to your heart's content-- by default, it looks similar to this:
http://www.jroller.com/) or activate the "Planet" feature for your
blog, I haven't used the latter though and it may have some problems
with it, I don't know. Twitter is another option -- if you tweet your
articles you can embed a Twitter gadget into your static page.
HTH,
Glen
On 03/26/2014 05:00 PM, Dennis Sosnoski wrote:
Thanks for getting back to me, Glen. I'd already looked at that post,
though.
My situation is that the front page of my site is not Roller and (at
least currently) not even dynamic. I was hoping that Roller would
define an endpoint I could access to get back an HTML list of recent
post titles, so that I could just use that as the source for an
iframe. I'd prefer to get the list back in reasonable form for
presentation on the client using CSS (otherwise I suppose I could
just use the Atom feed). If there isn't any direct source for this
now, I suppose I could add a special page to my template to generate
what I want using the Velocity snippet, and use that special page as
the source for the iframe. Is that the best way to get what I want?
It's not clear offhand how I'd add such a special page to my Roller
configuration without stepping on anything, so if that is the best
way to do things I'd appreciate any pointers.
Regards,
- Dennis
On 03/26/2014 11:47 PM, Glen Mazza wrote:
Hi Dennis, sure, look at Item #8 here:
http://www.jroller.com/gmazza/entry/apache_roller_blogging for a
Velocity macro you can place into your Roller template:
http://www.jroller.com/gmazza/entry/apache_roller_blogging. What it
looks like you can see on the right-side of my blog.
Regards,
Glen
On 03/25/2014 11:31 PM, Dennis Sosnoski wrote:
Hi, Rollers :-)
I've set up a new Roller blog within my site, and I'd like to embed
a list of the recent post titles with links in the main page (plain
HTML, not Roller). Is there a simple way I can get this info from
Roller in a form where I can just embed it in the page? I'm
thinking an HTML iframe, or something of the sort.
Thanks,
- Dennis
