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kraigb
#1 Posted : Wednesday, September 02, 2009 10:16:56 PM
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In the last couple of days I've installed blogengine.net and am happily up and running. I'm trying now to customize certain aspects of the RSS feeds and have a couple of questions.

First, the URL for a specific category feed looks like http://www.kraigbrocksch...4b4b-9081-6a9ee2c77369. Is there any way to use a friendlier category name? Every other feed URL I've seen doens't use a GUID but uses just a short text category name instead.

Second, when I go to that URL, the title in the feed is the same as the Name in the basic settings for the blog. Where can I insert a different string than that name?

Third, I subscribed to my own feed in Outlook to see how things appear. The feed posts, however, come from "kraig.nospam@nospam.kraigbrockschmidt.com (kraigb)"--how do I control what appears here so it's a friendlier string?

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.Kraig
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kraigb
#2 Posted : Friday, September 04, 2009 10:16:48 PM
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For the nospam issue, looks like this requires edits to the source code. Andre Loker has some info on this (http://blog.andreloker.de/post/2008/07/09/Things-to-note-when-upgrading-to-BlogEngineNET-14.aspx) which worked. In my case (in the 1.4.5 source code) I changed like 554 in SyndicationGenerator.cs to:

writer.WriteElementString("author", BlogSettings.Instance.AuthorName);

which gives a much friendlier appearance to the RSS feed. The title is set on line 407.

To change the GUID in the category would require more extensive changes, it seems, so I'm still wondering if there's an easier way.
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