ieee wordpress feeds
TRANSCRIPT
• Visit http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org• Log in with your IEEE Account.• Click on Scroll down to the “Useful links to extract meetings”
section, right-click on the RSS or the iCal link for your organizational unit and copy the URL.the “View Feeds (RSS/HTML/XML/iCal)” link.
•
Obtaining vTools Meetings Feed URLs
Pulling vTools Meetings Feed into WordPress (RSS)
● Go to Appearance -> Widgets page.● Drag the RSS Widget from the left and drop it into
one of the sidebars.● Paste the RSS URL into the “Enter the RSS feed
URL here:” field and give the Widget a title.● Click the “Save” button.
● Update the IEEE Sites theme Home Page Layout to accommodate the RSS Widget.
• Go to the Plugins page and activate the All-in-One Event Calendar plugin.
Pulling vTools Meetings Feeds (iCal)
● Go to Events -> Settings
• Go to the Events -> Settings and select your calendar page, or if you do not one, select “Auto-Create New Page”.
• Go to the Events -> Calendar Feeds and paste the vTools Meetings iCal feed URL into the “iCalendar/.ics Feed URL:” field.
• Change the “Check for new events” from “Hourly” to “Daily”.• Check the “On refresh, preserve previously imported events that
are missing from the feed” and the “Assign default time zone to events in UTC” options.
• Go to the Plugins page and activate the “amr shortcode” and the “vTools WebInAbox Feeds” plugins
Pulling vTools Officer and Other Units Feeds
• Go to Settings -> vTools WebInABox Feeds• Copy the URL from the example and paste it in the field above the
example.
• Go to Appearance → Widgets• Expand the “Widgets for Shortcodes” Widget box
● Drag and drop the WIBOfficerFeedWidget and the WIBOtherUnitsFeedWidget into the “Widgets for Shortcodes” box and expand them
• Go to Appearance → Widgets• Expand the “Widgets for Shortcodes” Widget box• You will need your organizational unit’s GEOCODE. Log into https:
//officers.vtools.ieee.org and start typing your organizational unit’s name. For example, the GEOCODE for Sweden Section is R80019.
• Paste the Geocode into the Geocode field of the WIBOfficerFeedWidget and WIBOtherUnitsFeedWidget Widgets, provide titles for them and save your settings.
• Create a Page called Our Officers, for example, and paste the [do_widget id="wibofficerfeedwidget-3"] or [do_widget wibofficerfeedwidget] shortcode into the content box.
• Publish your Page.
• Create a Page called Our Communities, for example, and paste the [do_widget id="wibotherunitsfeedwidget-3"] or [do_widget wibotherunitsfeedwidget] shortcode into the content box.
• Publish your Page.
• The output of the feed looks like this:
/* vTools WebInAbox Feed formatting */
div.feed_unit {margin-bottom:15px;}.feed_unit_prop {display:block;}.feed_unit_officer_prop {display:block;}.feed_unit_officer_ident_label {display:block;margin-top:8px;}
span.feed_unit_officer_ident_label, span.feed_unit_ident_label { background-image:url(http://sites.ieee.org/files/2015/07/form_bg1.jpg); background-repeat:repeat-x; border:1px solid #d1c7ac; width: 230px; color:#333333; padding:3px; margin-right:4px; margin-bottom:8px; font-family:tahoma, arial, sans-serif;}
● To add styling to the output, go to Plugins and activate the Custom CSS Manager plugin.
● Go to Appearance -> Custom CSS Manager and the following CSS:
● The output of the feed should now look like this:
● Officers can decide what information is displayed in the officer feed by going to https://webinabox.vtools.ieee.org/, logging in with their IEEE Accounts and clicking on the “Officer Roster” link.