How to Load Blog Articles Across Sites

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Goal

Show TACC news articles [list] on LCCF. [Include pagination.] — TUP-706.

Why

• Show news, that is directly relevant to 2 sites, on both sites.
• Don't duplicate news content (redundant data and effort).
• Let news writers continue to only work in one site.
• Service LCCF in a manner worthy of its funding.

  LCCF is big deal. Having most of its links just go to TACC is a disservice to it having its own heavily-funded portal.

Ideas

1. How to Load?

How to load remote content from one site on another.

1.A. Via URL w/ /blog/remote/

Load https://site-A.edu/news/latest-news/.../
at https://site-B.org/blog/remote/.../.

Examples

• Load https://site-a.edu/news/latest-news/
  at https://site-B.org/blog/remote.
• Load https://**site-a.edu/news/latest-news/**tag/frontera/
  at https://site-B.org/blog/remote/tag/frontera.
• Load https://**site-A.edu/news/latest-news/**2024/...-cars/
  at https://site-B.org/blog/remote/2024/-...-cars/.

1.B. Via URL w/ ?from=…

Load https://site-A.edu/news/latest-news/.../
at https://site-B.org/?from=https://.../news/latest-news/.../.

Examples

• Load https://site-a.edu/news/latest-news/
  at https://site-B.org/?from=https://.../news/latest-news/.../.
• Load https://**site-a.edu/news/latest-news/**tag/frontera/
  at https://site-B.org/?from=https://.../news/latest-news/tag/frontera.
• Load https://**site-A.edu/news/latest-news/**2024/...-cars/
  at https://site-B.org/?from=https://.../news/latest-news/2024/-...-cars/.

2. How to Configure?

How to configure what site loads what site at what URL?

2.A. Dev Configures via Settings

Tell a developer any URL requirements and which news to load.

• /special/path/ or ?special_key
• which websites' news to load

2.B. Admin Configures via a Model

Add a "Cross-Site Content" data entry in the admin UI.

• /special/path/ or ?special_key
• which websites' news to load

You could add multiple entries. Why? Load from many sources e.g.

• load from one or more news (from other site/s)
• load from one or more other pages (from other site/s)

Ref.

History:

0. TUP-706
1. feat: CMD-97 isolate breadcrumbs from content #870
2. feat: tup 706 be able to serve blog markup raw #871
3. feat: tup 706 conditionally serve raw markup #872
4. feat: tup-706 news on other sites #868

Related:

• feat: support multisite switch via domain name #873
• feat: CMD-97 add content to news page #869
• test: customize djangocms_blog feed ⚠️ #874

[wesleyboar]

Goal

Load only a the LCCF news listing from TACC.

So, now:

• only change href of pagination links
• refactor to be a plugin; user enters URL of news list
• no settings required