ReverbNation profiles have a blog tab on them. This blog tab can reflect content from RN’s internal blogging system. Better yet, it can accept an RSS feed from a wordpress blog — such as this one. Here’s how to set up RN to accept an external blog.
- Go to the Profile page within which you wish to embedded the blog.
- Slightly down the page is a row of approximately ten tabs. Select the one entitled ‘BLOG/BUZZ’.
- On the upper right of the BLOG/BUZZ tab is a button entitled ‘Blog Preferences’. Click it!
- Select the Blog radio button for Default View.
- In the Blog section, select the radio button entitled “I would like to show a blog I maintain on another site.”
- In the text box entitled ““, enter the URL of the blog RSS feed*!
- Click the ‘Save’ button.
- Watch your RN blog populate itself with the source blog’s contents! Cool!
*Bonus section – what is the URL of the RSS feed of the blog in which I am interested?
There are several correct answers to this question. Perhaps an example would help to illustrate. In my case, I just wanted to use the entire blog contents, and I did not care in which specific format it was published. My blog is located at http://www.joebear.net/blog/
. In this case, the proper feed to be typed into the text box for Blog Preferences was http://www.joebear.net/blog/feed
. Simple, hunh?
To see how it looks, compare this blog with its RN representation at this link.
Note: this post was copied from joebear.net. You’re reading this at metaversemusician.com. Conseqently, these blogs are likely to be out of sync. Compare the RN Profile with this other blog.
Such a handy tip. Couldn’t find this anywhere else on the whole wide web!
Ta!
Mark
Wow thanks man! I’ve been wanting to do this for ages! Now my blog shows up on my ReverbNation page. How awesome is that?