Introduction

Purple Feed allows publishers to generate RSS feeds from content in the Purple Hub. You can define various feeds based on a variety of filters. You can then access these feeds either through the Purple Manager URL (default setting) or through a custom domain.

Prerequisites

• Have an Admin role in Purple Hub

The following setting must be activated to use Purple Feeds:

• The "Purple DS Hub - Purple RSS" plugin must be activated

Configuration

Create a new feed



• Use "Purple RSS" --> "Add feed" from menu
• Add a feed title
• Click "Configure Feed"

You will then see the "Edit Feed" page.

Edit a feed



Base information (required)

Feed title String

Name your feed (e.g. Sports)

Feed slug String

• To edit the automatically created slug, use the [Edit slug] button beside the label
• The slug is unique and will automatically be set to a unique slug if one like this already exists

Feed base target URI String

Tell the RSS service on which URL the feed is running (how to display the article links in the feed). You can configure the custom domain e.g., if the article must be accessible at https://www.yourdomain.com/subdir/[article-slug], "subdir" must be defined here.

Feed image Select

You can select a thumbnail from your media library to enrich the RSS feed with a teaser image

Content filter

• The content filter defines what articles will be delivered within the feed, so you can set Categories to be included into the feed.
• The feed will always only deliver published articles. By dragging the elements from the lower list to the upper list (or empty area, if no filter was defined), the filter will be created automatically.
• All arguments are connected with an AND-relation: If you choose one category, the content belonging to this category is displayed in the feed. If you select two, only content, that belongs to both categories get displayed. E.g. If you select the categories 'Sports' and 'Regional', only the articles that belong to both categories, 'Sports' and 'Regional', get displayed. Articles, only belonging to one of both, wouldn’t get listed in the RSS feed.

Additional information

Include post contents on delivery Checkbox

• Allows to pass the whole article text to external services.
• If checked, an item will contain the element <content:encoded> with full article content

Include featured image on delivery Checkbox

• Enrich the RSS feed with a teaser Image
• If checked, an item will contain the element <enclosure> with attributes
  • url that has the url of the featured image
  • length with bytes of the image
  • type with mime-type information

Limit number of items Int

The maximum number of items that will be returned from the Purple Content Cloud

Feed description String

A descriptive text about your feed

Feed category String

• A definition of the category/categories your feed belongs to
• Combine multiple categories with a slash "/"
• Has no correlation with the filter category

Copyright String

Contains the Copyright information of your feed

TTL Int

The TTL-argument will be used by automatic feed readers as time between automated feed calls in min. The default setting is 60 minutes.

Language Select

Language setting is only available if the Hub is set up with Polylang as a multi-language Hub. If you set this information, the language information will be added to the feed. The feed items still depend on your selected filter options.

Publish feed

If all required information is set and saved, you can publish the feed.

Save feed properties

Make sure to save your changes made on this page before leaving it.

View feed

Depending on your Hub environment, the final feed URIs differ:

• Prod: https://feeds.purplemanager.com/[team-id]/[feed-slug]
• Staging: https://feeds.staging.purplemanager.com/[team-id]/[feed-slug]
• Dev: https://feeds.dev.purplemanager.com/[team-id]/[feed-slug]