Blog question

[walrus]

The first thing you want to do is validate the feed. I use Feed Validator.

If you run your ImLive feed through there you see that it is a valid feed but that it has some things that make it problematic for most feed readers.

You can spend days of trial and error searching for plug-ins and trying them and you may never have any satisfactory results.

I'll also load the feed in IE. That typically will show you exactly what you can expect most feed readers to show if they do read the feed.

Save yourself some time and countless hours of frustration and take Cleo's advice. Download the free version or Blogs Automater. It was written by a guy most of us know and trust and since he also works with adult it seems to work even with the stubbornest adult feeds.

Originally Posted by Cleo

I use Blogs Automater. You can try it for free on up to 3 blogs.
http://cheapestwebsoftware.com/

While I can't promise that BA will work, I personally have never found an adult feed that it wouldn't parse.

If your using a free wordpress template a link to the template would make it so that someone could take a quick look at it and tell you pretty quickly if part of your problem might be the "the_excerpt" issue and show you how to fix it so it doesn't break the theme.

I took a look at the FU cash feed. It separates the text and video into two seperate areas. Content is under the description field and the embed information is under the content encoded tag.

In order to import the feed you would need a reader that would allow you to output both tag information.

I haven't played around with aggregator plug-ins in a long time but most of them will only read one tag or the other. Not both. So the best I think you could hope for either the text or the video but not both.

Since the only feed I would use on my sites is currently invalid, I will not be testing it through BA to see if it can put it all together.