Instructions for creating a category-specific feed

Note:these instructions are meant to be a living document- please comment with suggestions or corrections if there are better ways to do this.

In order to aggregate MBA Edited Feeds, it is necessary to first have member bloggers create category-specific feeds. In the case of the Frontline News Wars discussion feed, this category should be named MBAFrontlineNewswar.

Here are instructions for creating these feeds in specific blog software:

WordPress
- From the admin area, create a category with the proper name. WordPress will then automatically create the RSS feed for that category. Generally, the syntax is as follows:
http://www.whateverblog.com/category/MBAFrontlineNewswar/feed
- Make sure your feed is set to deliver summaries, and not the whole post. This ensures traffic back to your site:
Go to Options-Reading, and choose 'summary'

Drupal
- Go to Administer- Settings - General Settings
- Choose RSS settings
- Choose title plus teaser

-set up a properly-named category. Create a post, and tag it with that category name.
-Drupal also automatically creates that feed. To get the URL, click on the tag name on the post you created. This brings you to a page that features only posts with that tag. On the bottom left, you should see an RSS symbol. Hover over that symbol to get the RSS URL for the category-specific feed.

MovableType/ TypePad
Note: You must have advanced templating set up to do this.

These are instructions via Luke Hutteman:

* Go to your RSS template and copy its contents to the clipboard.
* Go back to the templates page and click "create new archive template".
* Give it some meaningful name and paste the RSS template into the template body.
* Now go to "weblog config | archiving" and press "add new".
* Select an archive type of category and pick your new template.
* Set the name of the archive to rss_<$MTArchiveCategory dirify="1"$>.xml or something similar.
* Now in your main index template, find the MTArchiveList tag, and add a link to rss_<$MTArchiveTitle dirify="1"$>.xml inside it.
* et voilà - you've got RSS feeds per category!