RSS Factory (lite version)

Introduction

RSS Readers, Content Optimization, News Display, Social Web, Social Display

Displays relevant RSS feeds set from the backend, obtaining a clean way to direct genuine traffic towards the site, adding as many feeds as intended.

Layout & Themes

Multiple display styles (tiled, list, tabbed, slider)
Multiple content presentation styles (tooltip, table, modal)
Fully customizable CSS

Key Features

Automatic refresh of feeds through Cron or Pseudo Cron
Users can submit feeds
Voting system for feeds
Commenting system
FavIcons for feeds (pulled from feed sites or custom uploaded)
Ads integration (display ads of your choice in between feeds)
Word filter (include/exclude articles that contain certain keywords)
Automatic unpublishing of erroneous feeds
FTP protocol for retrieving RSS XMLs
Permissions management
Quick search bar

Standards

Multi-language support, UTF-8 support, comes default with English INI language files
SEO/SEF friendly (compatible with Artio JoomSEF)
Default integration with Joomla! user profile, allowing a single login for Joomla! and component
Easy transition to RTL
Simple installation, configuration and updating process

Categories

Unlimited categories and subcategories levels
Restrict usergroups on certain categories

Main Settings

Date & Time format (can hide date on feed display)
Set the number of feeds per page
Set display styles
Enable/disable search form
Enable and set up commenting system
Enable ads and set the number of rows to be shown after
Enable and set up component routing of the links
Set the number of feeds per page
Hide or show empty source feeds
Enable/disable FavIcons
Hide or show enclosures
Set up Cron Job and Pseudo Cron
Enable and set up word filter
Manage permission settings for all user groups

Modules & Plugins

Feeds display module with multiple sorting types (date, votes, comments, hits and random)
Categories navigation module
3 Plugins (content, system and search)

Backend Management

Actions: create new feeds and edit existing ones, manually refresh feeds, publish submitted feeds, etc.
Overview comments
Manage ads
Clear and optimize cache
Generate and restore backup archives
Import from CSV (there are sample files in the component archive and in the component admin folder)

Requirements

Joomla! 4.x, 3.x
MySQL (min. 5.1 + )
CRON (a general CRON Tutorial is available in our documentation section)
cURL, GD2, iconv, mbstring libraries enabled

FURTHER DETAILED INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE PRODUCT HOMEPAGE!

Write a review

Falsely (or fraudulently) claimed to be compatible with J! 4.x!

Michael Russell (27).
Posted on 03 June 2023

Functionality

Confirmed as non-functional with J! 4.x. The claimed "functionality" does nothing that is not already included in the J! core CMS.

Ease of use

Instructions for use are practically non-existent. This is one of several extensions from the developer that has not been maintained.

Support

The link to the support area is broken (404 error). I do not believe there is support for this developer's extension(s).

Documentation

Doco is based on J! 2.5. The demo site is J! 3.x. There is no evidence the product can work with J! 4.x.

I used this to: Testing compatibility with J! 4.x. The listing—"updated" nearly three years ago before the first release of J! 4.x—claims claim that this extension is compatible with J! 4.x. That is not proven by practical experience. The extension fails the JED Checker.

Not functional on Joomla 4.3

Daniel Dubois (2).
Posted on 04 May 2023

Functionality

As already mentioned by others users, there are some errors "500 behavior::tooltip not found" in backend.

Ease of use

It's pretty much impossible to use this extension on Joomla 4 due to the errors in backend.

Support

The extension is free but you must pay to have support. I agree toi pay when the extension is functional.

Documentation

The documentation available on the dev website in not related to Joomla 4.x versions

I used this to: As it's impossible to use it on Jommla 4.x, I had no other choice thant uninstalled it

Does not support J4

Klaus Dahl (1).
Posted on 06 June 2022

Functionality

Although it states to be Joomla 4 compatible - it is not! Different kind of 500-errors occour when ever you try to do something.

Ease of use

Although it states to be Joomla 4 compatible - it is not! Different kind of 500-errors occour when ever you try to do something.

Support

The issue has been posted on forum website - but no reply! Of course this is a free product, but still!

Documentation

I used this to: Nothing, since it doesn't work. It seems like a great extension on J3, but apparantly not J4

I will build him news portal

Juhász Zoltán (4).
Posted on 07 September 2015

Functionality

It contains a number of useful features.

Ease of use

Very easy to setup

Support

Support not used it yet

Documentation

Correct description and demo admin

I used this to: We Litter for more news site. you'll like

Buggy

Guillaume Erard (20).
Posted on 03 July 2012

I tried to use this extension but the documentation is too antique (Joomla! 1.0). When I tried uninstalling the whole thing did not uninstall properly and I am stuck with an error.

Owner's reply: You should have a better look! You can find updated documentation under http://wiki.thefactory.ro/doku.php#rss_factory

Sure we have also Joomla 1.0 documentation since this product was around even on Mambo days.

Thank you

John (2).
Posted on 09 July 2010

Great free Rss aggregator. I used it from their versions in Joomla1.0 and was fascinated by the brilliance of this extension. It has some neat ideas that I did not recall seeing in other extensions, and they seemed to optimize the later versions since the news loads much faster now. GJ boys!

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