How to Show the Latest Activity of Any Webpage using its Feed?

 

Web-masters always want to display the latest activities of their webpage on their blog or website. Bloggers shows it as Recent Post while website owners calls it “Latest Activities”. Showing the Recent Post on blogging platform like blogger and WordPress is not tough. WordPress comes with some awesome plugins, Which makes the task easier. On the other hand, Blogger also provide a Gadget to show the same. However web-master face difficulties in showing the recent Activities of their website(Joomla, Vbulletin etc) on their blog. I was consistently getting questions from users, Where they asked me to provide the easiest method to display the recent activities of any Web Page anywhere. Today, I will show you the easiest method.

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How to Show the Latest Activity of Any Webpage using its Feed?

• Visit http://feed2js.org/.
• You must know the RSS Feed of your website to show its recent activities. It should be in http:// format, not feed://. Actually, RSS feed conatins the generated summary in XML format which can be utilized to show the recent activities.
• Click on Build option as shown below:

• Now, You will see the below given Form.

• Enter the Feed Address and other details according to Your choice.
• It allows you to preview your feed as well. To test it, Enter the feed address as shown in above figure and click on “Preview Feed”. A pop-up screen will appear with latest activities. The screenshot of the same is shown below:

• Click on “Generate Javascript” button to get the Javascript code. You will have to use this Javascript code in your webpage to display the latest activities.

• You will get the Javascript code. The screenshot of the code box is shown below:

• If you want to customize the look of your RSS Feed then scroll down and click on “Style Notes” link. The screenshot of the same is shown below:

• Choose a style of your choice and follow the instructions provided on the webpage to enhance its look. These are pre-defined templates. If you are an advanced user and have plenty of CSS knowledge then you can customize the form in your own way as well.

• That’s it. Use the generated javascript in your website to see the recent activities like recent post, Recent comments of any webpage.