Blog question

[walrus]

Originally Posted by nate

What plug in are you using to grab the feed?

wp-o-matic grabs both the excerpt and the content.

You are not understanding what I'm saying. Physically look at the feed. Use the link I provided in my previous post for the feed validator and plug in one of the FU Cash feeds.

Scroll down the screen and you'll see something like this

# <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
# <!-- generator="wordpress/2.0.9" -->
# <rss version="2.0"
# xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
# xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
# xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
# >
#
# <channel>
# <title>18YearsOld</title>
# <link><![CDATA[http://yestheyreallyare.18yearsold.com/signup/signup.php?nats=MTEwOTE6Mjox&step=2]]></link>
# <description><![CDATA[18YearsOld]]></description>
# <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:00:00 EST</pubDate>
# <generator>http://bloggers.fuckyoucash.com</generator>
# <language>en</language>
# <item>
# <title><![CDATA[ PKim Capri ]]></title>
# <link><![CDATA[http://yestheyreallyare.18yearsold.com/signup/signup.php?nats=MTEwOTE6Mjox&step=2]]></link>
# <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:00:00 EST</pubDate>
# <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[d5a46c978fcc7e54d4c6398887e05c4e]]></guid>
# <description><![CDATA[
#
# Kim Capri loves rollerblading and sucking boys off! This adorable 18 year old has such a sweet soft pussy just barely legal enough to get railed! When we met up with her at the park she was anxiously waiting to got on her knees!
#
# ]]></description>
# <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="center"><embed src="http://bloggers.fuckyoucash.com/_flash/embedVideo.swf?flvURL=aHR0cDovL2Jsb2dnZXJzLmZ1Y2t5b3VjYXNoLmNvbS9fc2l0ZXMvMTh5ZWFyc29sZC8xMDIvdmlkZW8uZmx2&destinationURL=aHR0cDovL3llc3RoZXlyZWFsbHlhcmUuMTh5ZWFyc29sZC5jb20vc2lnbnVwL3NpZ251cC5waHA/bmF0cz1NVEV3T1RFNk1qb3gmc3RlcD0y&watermarkText=MA==&siteName=18yearsold&j=http://yestheyreallyare.18yearsold.com/strack/MTEwOTE6Mjox/1/0/1/&episodePath=102" width="480" height="400" align="middle" name="embedVideo" allowScriptAccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /></p>]]></content:encoded>
# </item>

For importing feeds the stuff inbetween <channel></channel> isn't important. Find the <item> tag and underneath it all all the tags that are available to be read by the feed reader.

You will see there is a <description> tag and a <content encoded> tag.

With WP-o-Matic you do not have the ability to grab the information from the <description>. tag.

I don't know of any plug-in aggregator that will read both. I'm not sure whether BA would be able to put the two parts together as per the RSS standard the description tag is supposed to be for the excerpt and the content:encode for post information.

Other than sponsors who seem to think they know of a better way, there is no need to read both and the complete post should be in content:encode.

But don't believe me... Keep scratching your head and wondering why you can't get the feed to work since you obviously believe you know more about RSS feeds and getting them into wordpress than anyone else.

[Grim]

Hi, interesting...I need as much information as I can regarding this, because it looks like it isnt a simple thing to get into....so many thanks Walrus.

I can see that one of the feeds did only come over with text and no images...although one feed did have both...

There was a setting I changed (cant remember which one now) that made images appear with exerpts where there was only copy before,... but the exerpts that already displayed copy with images then started to display two images next to each other as well as the copy, so I turned that function off. -

I guess choosing content wisely, and so it fits in with the rest of your blog is part of the game.

Walrus should I be checking feeds usining Feed Validator, to check whether the feed is compatible with the other feeds on my blog so I get 'symetery' in my layout and design, rather than some posts with images and other without...etc..?

The other thing is when ever I pull a feed into an aggregator, (I have used free ones and currently MS Outlook) I have always seen images and text together, but being a noob at this I'm not sure exactly what you mean there mate..

I still cannot find 'The_Exerpt'...The URL of the blog I am testing out is maturepornosex.co.uk

Seriously thanks for the help so far guys..

ps.
The wordpress plugin I was using is FeedWordPress.

[walrus]

Originally Posted by Grim

Hi, interesting...I need as much information as I can regarding this, because it looks like it isnt a simple thing to get into....so many thanks Walrus.

I can see that one of the feeds did only come over with text and no images...although one feed did have both...

There was a setting I changed (cant remember which one now) that made images appear with exerpts where there was only copy before,... but the exerpts that already displayed copy with images then started to display two images next to each other as well as the copy, so I turned that function off. -

I guess choosing content wisely, and so it fits in with the rest of your blog is part of the game.

Walrus should I be checking feeds usining Feed Validator, to check whether the feed is compatible with the other feeds on my blog so I get 'symetery' in my layout and design, rather than some posts with images and other without...etc..?

The other thing is when ever I pull a feed into an aggregator, (I have used free ones and currently MS Outlook) I have always seen images and text together, but being a noob at this I'm not sure exactly what you mean there mate..

I still cannot find 'The_Exerpt'...The URL of the blog I am testing out is maturepornosex.co.uk

Seriously thanks for the help so far guys..

ps.
The wordpress plugin I was using is FeedWordPress.

When I was using sponsor feeds on a regular basis, I always checked them with the feed validator.

I also, typically, loaded the feed in IE, just to see what I could expect to get from the feed.

FWP is pretty good although I've had problems in the past with it reposting the whole feed and not just the update with some feeds. Not all, just some of them. Which meant you ended up with 10 of each post instead of only one.

I also had problems with the plug-in getting updated when WP was upgraded.

BA is the best option. WP-o-Matic is also very good.

[nate]

Originally Posted by walrus

FWP is pretty good although I've had problems in the past with it reposting the whole feed and not just the update with some feeds. Not all, just some of them. Which meant you ended up with 10 of each post instead of only one.

FeedWordPress Duplicate Post Filter
this is a filter for the FeedWordPress plugin. If you don't use FeedWordPress this plugin will not be useful to you.

I wrote this filter after seeing the same post in my database 32 times. Maybe you've had the same problem, and I hope this filter helps you solve it.

The filter works by hooking the "syndicated_post" action of FeedWordPress.

For each potential post, the filter compares the (escaped) post title, and either the post guid, or the year-month-day (e.g., 2008-04-12) of the post_date_gmt attributes. If it finds a match of both the title and either the guid or date, it tells FeedWordPress to skip that potential post. Otherwise, it tells FeedWordPress to continue processing it however you have syndication set up on your blog.

[Grim]

Hi I switched to Web-o-Matic if its better than FeedWordPress. I see you can set campaigns with WOM etc.

Do I have to hack this plugin then?

Also been looking but I still cant find the correct place to edit the_exerpts with the_content()

Thanks for the help an amusemnt so far guys..