How to Change the Admin News Feed in Social Engine

Written by Andrew Cross Tuesday, 18 December 2012

First, you need to find out what rss feed you would rather look at other than Social Engines. I chose CNN.com for this example. This means you can have the more important Feeds direct to your panel without leaving your site.

Next
Go to /application/modules/Core/widgets/admin-news and open Controller.php find the line

// Get params
$url =
replace the http://socialengine.com/feed=rss2 with http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_us.rss OR whatever RSS feed you would rather look at.

PLEASE MAKE A BACKUP OF ANY FILES YOU CHANGE TO BE ON THE SAFE SIDE.

 Hope you enjoy