At this stage of our book we have all the content in place. We know how to set up nice image galleries, store audio and video content, and we have learned how to structure this content in the CMS. But we still want more! Everybody is talking about podcasting nowadays, which has something to do with multimedia. What is it exactly and can we do it with Plone? Yes, we can!
In this chapter we will take a closer look at syndication. Syndication is an umbrella term for podcasting, vodcasting, and so on. We will see what these terms mean and how they are connected to each other. There are several formats that can be used for distributing content, the most common being RSS and Atom. Besides these, there are alternative ones such as OPML, MediaRSS, and GeoRSS.
What we will see is how to distribute content from Plone by means of syndication. As a first step, we will look what Plone has to offer out of the box. Later, we will investigate some third-party products that allow...