{"id":274,"date":"2011-11-01T16:36:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T23:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/?p=274"},"modified":"2022-08-05T10:31:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T17:31:58","slug":"get-vct-org-news-delivered-to-your-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/2011\/11\/01\/get-vct-org-news-delivered-to-your-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"Get VCT.org News Delivered to Your Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever wished you could get VenturaCountyTrails.org news without having to check the website every day to see if there\u2019s anything new? Well, you can!\u00a0This article shows you how.<\/p>\n

Even though our blog software won\u2019t send articles to you by email, you can still get them delivered to the inbox of most email readers like Microsoft Outlook. You use the \u201cRSS feed\u201d functionality for this. In fact, you can read our articles in any software that receives RSS feeds, such as Internet Explorer and other web browsers.<\/p>\n

According to Wikipedia (http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RSS<\/a>), \u201c\u2026RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works \u2014 such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video\u2014in a standardized format. An RSS document (which is called a \u201cfeed\u201d, \u201cweb feed\u201d or \u201cchannel\u201d) includes full or summarized text, plus other data such as publishing dates and authorship. Web feeds benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favored websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place. RSS feeds can be read using software called an \u201cRSS reader\u201d, \u201cfeed reader\u201d, or \u201caggregator\u201d, which can be web-based, desktop-based, or mobile-device-based. The user subscribes to a feed by entering into the reader the feed\u2019s \u201cURI\u201d or by clicking an RSS icon in a web browser that initiates the subscription process. The RSS reader checks the user\u2019s subscribed feeds regularly for new work, downloads any updates that it finds, and provides a user interface to monitor and read the feeds. RSS allows users to avoid manually inspecting all of the websites they are interested in, and instead subscribe to websites such that all new content is pushed onto their browsers when it becomes available\u2026\u201d The Wikipedia article<\/a> goes on to describe RSS in great detail.<\/p>\n

What follows are directions on how to set up Microsoft Outlook and a couple of web browsers as RSS readers. Other similar software should have a similar method for setting it up to read RSS feeds.<\/p>\n

Microsoft Outlook 2010<\/strong> (This will subscribe you to new articles<\/em> only. To also get comments<\/em> that are posted to these articles, follow this process but use \u201chttp:\/\/www.venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/comments\/feed\/<\/strong>\u201d for the source of the feed in step 3):<\/p>\n

1. From the \u201cFile\u201d tab, click on the “Info” item in the left\u00a0panel, then the\u00a0\u201cAccount Settings\u201d icon, then select \u201cAccount Settings\u2026\u201d from the pop-up.<\/p>\n

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The File tab is circled in red<\/p><\/div>\n

2. In the dialog box, select the \u201cRSS Feeds\u201d tab. Click on the \u201cNew\u2026\u201d icon just below the tabs.
\n3. Enter \u201chttp:\/\/www.venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/feed\/<\/strong>\u201d (without the quotation marks) in the dialog box that pops up, then click on the \u201cAdd\u201d button.
\n4. In the new dialog box that appears, click on the \u201cChange Folder\u201d button. If you want the feed articles to appear in your inbox, select the \u201cInbox\u201d folder, then click the \u201cOK\u201d button. Change any other values as you like. You can change them later, too. Then click on the \u201cOK\u201d button to close the dialog box.
\n5. Click the \u201cClose\u201d button. Recent articles will be downloaded to your inbox.<\/p>\n

Internet Explorer 9 to 11:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1a. Browse to a blog article page, for example http:\/\/www.venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/<\/a>
\n1b. If the menus aren’t visible at the top, right-click on the drag bar and select “Menu bar” from the list.
\n2. From the “Tools” menu, hover over “Feed Discovery” and click on the RSS feed you want to add.
\n3. A yellow bar will appear at the top of the page. Click on “Subscribe to this feed”
\n4. A dialog box will pop-up where you can make changes to the way the feed is displayed. Make any changes you like, then click on the “Subscribe” button.<\/p>\n

To read the RSS feeds, you must display the Feeds explorer\u00a0pane. To do this, select menu “View,” then item “Explorer bars,” then sub-item “Feed.” Your feeds will be displayed on the left side of your browser.<\/p>\n

Mozilla Firefox (v40.0.2; other versions are likely to be similar):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Firefox refers to RSS feeds as “Live Bookmarks.”<\/p>\n

1. Browse to the blog home page http:\/\/www.venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/<\/a>
\n2. Select menu “Bookmarks,” then item “Subscribe to This Page”, then select the feed from the list that appears.<\/p>\n

\"FirefoxRSS2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

3. A yellow panel will appear at the top of the page; click on the “Subscribe Now” button.
\n4. a Dialog box will appear that allows you to name your feed and display it in one of several places. Remember where you set the feed to be displayed so you can view the posts later.<\/p>\n

Google Chrome<\/strong><\/p>\n

As of August 2015, it appears that Chrome does not directly support subscribing to RSS feeds or displaying them. This web page<\/a> describes how it should work, when implemented.<\/p>\n

Currently you need to add an extension to subscribe to feeds. See this discussion<\/a>, for example, for details. The mechanism of dealing with RSS feeds in Chrome is beyond the scope of this blog article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever wished you could get VenturaCountyTrails.org news without having to check the website every day to see if there\u2019s anything new? Well, you can!\u00a0This article shows you how. Even though our blog software won\u2019t send articles to you by email, you can still get them delivered to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3751,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/3751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}