Display Blog as WebPart in Sharepoint 2010

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I have a blog in a Sharepoint 2010 site (hosted by a 3rd party), and I need to display snippets (title) of last 5 blog posts in the home page of my SharePoint site as a web part.

I have tried to pull the RSS XML of the blog and transform it with XSL, but for that to work the site needs to have anonymous access, which unfortunatelty is out of my hand, that is I cannot do that. I cannot upload a custom web part as well. I can create a Silverlight app, and host in the Silverlight web part, but for that I need to have cross-script enabaled in the Sharepoint, which is again cannot be done as the Sharepoint site is hosted by a 3rd party.

Can anyone please help me and let me know if there is any way, I can do that.

Thanks.

Best Answer

I have found three ways to displaying this:

1) I user use a Content Query Webpart to pull out the data from a Sharepoint Blog and make an setting to show only the top 5 items.

2) I could use XML Viewer webpart to pull the RSS feed of the blog and use a XSL Transformation to display the top 5 items.

3) I could use a Silverlight Webpart to host a Silverlight application which will read the RSS and display the data likewise.

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Xml – Edit XSL for SharePoint 2010 Rss Feed WebPart

You can use the RSS webpart just fine: First edit the webpart and look for the XSL editor button

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In chrome there will be no button but you will have an edit box here. Then rip out that nonsense they have in there replace with your own xsl. For your edification I include this very simple xsl:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
    <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:template match="/">
<html>
  <head>
    <title>What's going on around here</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="explanation">
      <h3>News Around here</h3>
      <p>Allowing you to stay up to date with the latest news and features from here.</p>
    </div>
    <div id="subscribe"></div>
    <div id="content">
      <xsl:variable name="count" select="4"/>
      <xsl:for-each select="rss/channel/item">
          <xsl:variable name="myURL" select="link"/>
              <div class="article" >

                <a href="{$myURL}" rel="bookmark"> 
                  <xsl:value-of select="title"/>
                </a>
              </div>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

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