Posting to 2 sites
By Anne Marie Rasmussen on Monday, 18 July 2016
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Hi Stackideas guys,

I am actually looking for some ideas or suggestions. Here's the situation I have 2 sites on similar topics, which have crossover subjects. Posts on either site would be of interest to both site users.

So I am trying to figure out a way that I can use the same blog on both sites. I have thought of a couple of options but maybe you can suggest another way to do it.

The options I came up with were 1) to use an external link to the other site with the blog (not the greatest option as it takes people off the original site) or 2) use an iframe on one of the sites with the blog from the other site in it (I've done that before and it doesn't look great).

There is a 3rd option .. post the same material on two blogs, but I'm lazy.

These may be my only options but it never hurts to ask the experts. You guys are brilliant after all!! )
Hey Anne,

You can use feed importer tool in Easyblog.

For example :
1. Blog A site and Blog B site.
2. Author published a new blog post in Blog A site, and it also will get auto imported that new post and published on your Blog B site.

How to achieve this :
1. Go to your Blog A site copy the RSS feed URL (You also can copy multiple different categories RSS feed and setup in multiple feed import URL from backend)
2. Go to your Blog B backend > Easyblog > feed importer > Click New > paste that RSS feed URL and set the settings.
3. After you done it, you have to setup cronjob in your server so that it will always automatically check is there have any new post need to import in from Blog A to Blog B.

** If you using Cpanel, you can add this following Cron command setup cronjob in your server.


/usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null "http://yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_easyblog&task=cronfeed"
Arlex Wong
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Monday, 18 July 2016 10:32
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Attached some screenshot.
Arlex Wong
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Monday, 18 July 2016 10:32
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Hi Arlex,

Got very behind and just getting to setting this up! Question regarding the cronjob. Which site should be used in the command? Site A or Site B? Thanks!
Anne Marie Rasmussen
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Monday, 08 August 2016 02:58
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Hey Anne,

You should setup that cronjob in your Site B server.

Because it will Site B need to always check Site A is it have new post published or not, if yes then it will import over to Site B.
Arlex Wong
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Monday, 08 August 2016 10:15
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Hi Arlex,

Just want to make sure I have this right before putting it in? The cron job should look like this /usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null "http://siteb.com/index.php?option=com_easyblog&task=cronfeed"; and will call in the feed from site a?
Anne Marie Rasmussen
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Tuesday, 09 August 2016 18:24
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Hi there,


The cron job should look like this /usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null "http://siteb.com/index.php?option=com_easyblog&task=cronfeed";;

Yes it is because site b is the site that need the feed from site a. Make sure that you put your domain name a.k.a Site B and without "semicolon/;"

For better understanding you can refer to our documentation on cronjob below:-
http://stackideas.com/docs/easyblog/administrators/configuration/feeds-importer
Abdul Warith Norudin
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Tuesday, 09 August 2016 18:59
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Great! Thank you.

I do have one more question which is sort of related. I noticed in your documentation about a site called Easycron. Are you recommending this for sites running Easyblog? The reason I ask is I had to change hosts (don't get me started on that but I do not recommend Inmotionhosting for ppl who are running Joomla sites!). I am now with Siteground but my plan has a limitation of a cron being run to a minimum of every 30 mins, so a service like Easycron might be another option for me.
Anne Marie Rasmussen
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Tuesday, 09 August 2016 22:33
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You're welcome.

I would like suggest you to use the cron service which your hosting provided, because if I recall correctly, this EasyCron also have limit, once you finish the quota, your cron will stopped it.

If you still having issue with this, so you have to manually click the import button from backend so it will no need to go through the cron process.
Arlex Wong
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Tuesday, 09 August 2016 23:16
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OK so I have the RSS feed working between the sites but I don't suppose there is any way of including the images from the original post? If not I'll have to come up with another solution as images are important for the posts as much are tutorials.
Anne Marie Rasmussen
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Wednesday, 10 August 2016 06:41
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hey Anne,

Can you provide us with your Site A site domain so I can better have a look?
Arlex Wong
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Wednesday, 10 August 2016 10:15
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Hi,

The site's blog is at http://howto3drenderart.com/blog. I have updated the site's details if needed.

Site B's blog is at https://jumpintovue3dbook.com/blog and the posts are appearing but with broken image links.
Anne Marie Rasmussen
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Wednesday, 10 August 2016 12:54
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Hey Anne,

Can I have this domain site (https://jumpintovue3dbook.com/blog) Joomla backend access?

The reason why it show image broken is because that image URL protocol serve as https, and your site A (http://howto3drenderart.com/blog) do not have https protocol.

I believe you have installed admin tool extension in your site right? If I recall correctly this extension will make all the http protocol change to https.
Arlex Wong
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Wednesday, 10 August 2016 13:11
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I've updated the site details to give access to Jump into Vue backend. Are you talking about the Akeeba Admin tool? If so I've just installed it. I've had more problems with that https protocol for this site.
Anne Marie Rasmussen
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Wednesday, 10 August 2016 18:09
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Hey there,

Yes, what i mean is this `Akeeba Admin tool`.

Hm, I did tried to find how to disable this from the setting, but I can't figure out where this setting come from.

Can you consult with Akeeba admin tool developer regarding this is there a way to disable force to use https feature on the site? Because now it detected the link which using http protocol, it will force to use https.
Arlex Wong
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Wednesday, 10 August 2016 23:18
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Hi Arlex,

I did find something for forcing the https in the Admin tool but it didn't do anything.

I've contacted Siteground to see if they can fix it and they are looking at it. If not I'll have to look at another option. Perhaps put in a frame of the blog on the 2nd site or just post to each site separately.

I'll let you know if it is resolved.
Anne Marie Rasmussen
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Thursday, 11 August 2016 06:40
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Just to update - the Siteground ppl have resolve the issue and images are showing on both blogs.
Anne Marie Rasmussen
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Thursday, 11 August 2016 08:24
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Hi there,

You are most welcome. Glad to hear that your issue has been resolved now.

As a gentle reminder, kindly start a new thread if you have any other issue in the future so it will be easier for us to manage your inquiry. I will lock and mark this thread as resolved.
Arlex Wong
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Thursday, 11 August 2016 10:53
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