: Joomla: How to create a blog of articles from multiple categories? I need to gather articles from multiple categories into the single blog feed (the front page and main RSS feed). For example,

@Fox8124981

In the required Articles can select option Front Page to Yes and create Front Page Blog Layout Menu Item.

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@Candy875

Yahoo Pipes lets you join together various RSS feeds.

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@Si4351233

I know Wordpress provides this possibility and there is a Wordpress blog for Joomla: extensions.joomla.org/extensions/news-production/blog/6659

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@Murray432

I have founded an appropriate free Joomla component called Zaragoza Content

Current implementation for Joomla 1.5 is a little bit buggy, but here is my fix:


Install this component into Joomla. After this you can select the main menu item type "Zaragoza Content » Blog" and select IDs of categories you want to display in the single feed.
Overwrite the file "componentscom_zaragozacontentviewsblogtmpldefault_blog_item.php" by the file from your current template, in my case "templates[template-name]htmlcom_contentcategoryblog_item.php", because it has a bit different presentation.
Fix the file componentscom_zaragozacontentviewsblogview.html.php by adding 2 lines to the top of it (right after the first PHP open brace "?php"):

JHTML::addIncludePath(JPATH_COMPONENT.DS.'helpers');
JHTML::addIncludePath(JPATH_BASE.DS.'components'.DS.'com_content'.DS.'helpers');

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