Monday, October 4, 2010

New Blog

For those of you who do not know this, Windows Live Spaces is transitioning over to WordPress.  This effectively breaks the OLSB Blog module and your webpage if you happen to have the module on one of your webpages.  Since the blog has to be moved, I decided to abandon Windows Live completely (WordPress) and go with Blogger.  I have transitioned the old blog over to WordPress and it can be found here: http://officelivesolutions.wordpress.com/.  The new blog at blogger can be found at: http://solutionsforofficelive.blogspot.com/.

Now that the blog was moved I had to address the issue with the Space Blog Module.  First I removed the module from the homepage, which incidentally was broken because of that!  Next I used a RSS reader from: http://feed.informer.com/.  I tried a number of different ones but this one seemed to work the best for what I wanted.  Once I had the RSS feed setup with feed.informer, I copied the code (I used the JavaScript version) and used the Custom Footer Module to embed it on the homepage.  The results can be seen at http://solutionsforofficelive.com.

The Code:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="text" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<![CDATA[
<script type="text/javascript" src="
http://app.feed.informer.com/digest3/FYYSDVKBXC.js">
<noscript><a href="
http://app.feed.informer.com/digest3/FYYSDVKBXC.html">Click for &quot;Solutions for Office Live Blog&quot;.</a>
Powered by <a href="
http://feed.informer.com/">RSS Feed Informer</a></noscript></script>
]]>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

3 comments:

  1. Thanks SA. I found a couple of Google Gadgets that do this also. Interesting that OLSB can't figure this out.

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  2. Thanks...but I am confused on how to transfer it over to wordpress....any ideas?

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  3. Windows Live and WordPress will walk you through the process of transferring your blog over. Simply login to Windows Live and go to your space and you should be welcomed by the option to move. The solution I mentioned above will work for any blog that has an RSS feed.

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