This is a spin off from Devocate's post, Where Developers Blog, to help show developers how to connect their blogs with Dev.to to easily cross post content.
Connecting your blog to Dev.to
It's actually incredibly easy to do.
- Collect the RSS feed URL for your current blog. Depending on your platform, this may vary.
- Login to dev.to and navigate to Settings, then Extensions
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Scroll down to Publishing to DEV Community from RSS and paste your RSS URL in the RSS Feed URL field.
Be sure to check to make your RSS source the canonical URL be default. The next box is entirely up to you---but if you're keeping your blog, I would suggest not checking it.
Click Save Feed Settings
Let dev.to work their magic for a few minutes, or a few hours, it varies overall.
Login back into dev.to and navigate to Dashboard under your account menu.
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You should see a feed of posts in draft mode that came in from your blog.
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Go through your posts and decide which ones make the cut for dev.to! Click Edit on the post you want to publish and make any appropriate tweaks. Be sure to change "false" to "true" when you are ready to publish!
Click Save Changes. Your blog post is now live on dev.to. 💥
Top comments (5)
Thank you for sharing your post. This was really helpful for me.
I'm so happy to hear that!
Thanks for the post!
When the upstream blog is updated, would the content from dev.to be also automatically updated?
No, you will have to go in to each post in your dashboard and change "Published: False" to true.
I would like to know that, too!