Mushroom Lite Module for DotNetNuke is a module developed to bring rich content in an 
RSS feed directly into your DNN website.
We created the module to fill a particular need we have that would allow us to bring a WordPress blog to DNN, but it could be any sort of blog, or any RSS feed with images and text.
An Example
Our blog is at: http://www.interactivewebs.com/blog
We use WordPress to power the blog, because it is extremely powerful as blog technology, and far superior to many other blog technologies available.
The blog allows RSS feeds of almost every item listing, either by cloud tag, or category. It is one of the powerful features of WordPress. If you click on a Category such as iPhone, you receive this web view: http://www.interactivewebs.com/blog/index.php/category/apple-mac/
and if you add /feed/ to the end of that URL, you will be given the same content in an RSS feed.
http://www.interactivewebs.com/blog/index.php/category/apple-mac/feed/
Shown in Internet Explorer
The same content can then be fed into the InteractiveWebs Mushroom Lite DotNetNuke Module using the same URL as above.
Giving a great result on page. Note that the module is automatically pulling
or
So in this way, you can bring your blog content in the form of an RSS feed directly to the page of your DotNetNuke website, and display it in style.
Best of all, the module allows you to customize the layout using CSS, jQuery and a template.
Loading Effect
With Loading Effect also controlled by template, allowing you to select a number of effects.
The last tab on the module shows the installed version, and if there are any updates available past the version installed.
Look and Feel
With the images pulled from you RSS feeds, you can set the image display size.
Set the number of characters pulled from the feed source:
with the automatic truncation of the content stream.
Linking to the Full Content
The module allows for the reader of your page to click on the content and view the original stream in several styles:
With handy information sharing links built into the popup:
for sharing your posts.
There are also options that allows for sorting the feed:
To allow you to use the module and it’s feeds in different ways. For example we use the post on this page.
http://www.interactivewebs.com/mushroom-lite/Support/HelpandSupport.aspx
to provide a help and support for one of our other modules. The posts in this page were done with the most relevant to least, so the content we want at the top of the page remains there.
Caching
An important part of performance is that the module does not hit an RSS stream each time the page loads. We have provided for this with server site caching, controlled within the module.
Allowing you to define how frequently the module reloads the RSS stream with new content.
For more information and demonstration, see our site here:
http://www.interactivewebs.com/mushroom-lite/MushroomLite.aspx
