Comments on: FeedWordPress 0.9 http://projects.radgeek.com/2005/03/30/feedwordpress-09/ the software industry of a secessionist republic of one Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:38:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ken http://projects.radgeek.com/2005/03/30/feedwordpress-09/#comment-167 Ken Fri, 12 Aug 2005 00:46:00 +0000 http://projects.radgeek.com/2005/03/30/feedwordpress-09/#comment-167 <p>Hi, I really love this plugin! However, I am having an issue with the user workflow. I like the idea of having all posts dropped in as DRAFTS so they can be reviewed. The only problem is if you have 200+ articles at once coming in from feeds, then the Draft area isn't the place to work with these syndicated posts. I have greatly modified FeedWordPress to include a "Manage > Syndicated Posts" area. This area is for managing the Unpublished Syndicated Posts (Drafts). I am rather happy with the results. </p> <p>I have another problem that I haven't tackled yet and it involves the lack of checking for duplicated posts. </p> <p>If a user updates feeds and then deletes what they don't want the next update brings them ALL back...very annoying.</p> <p>I figured the permalinks from the meta table would at least be compared against so this didn't happen. It looks like the plugin just cleans the meta table instead of doing a compare. The plugin doesn't correctly look for duplicates. Or it doesn't store the data necessary for this type of compare. Any suggestions??</p> <p>I would love to send you the modified plugin and see if you want to incorporate the changes. If not I would love to release it as a "FeedWordPress Pro".</p> <p>Your thoughts on all of this...</p> <p>Thanks Ken Villines</p> Hi, I really love this plugin! However, I am having an issue with the user workflow. I like the idea of having all posts dropped in as DRAFTS so they can be reviewed. The only problem is if you have 200+ articles at once coming in from feeds, then the Draft area isn’t the place to work with these syndicated posts. I have greatly modified FeedWordPress to include a “Manage > Syndicated Posts” area. This area is for managing the Unpublished Syndicated Posts (Drafts). I am rather happy with the results.

I have another problem that I haven’t tackled yet and it involves the lack of checking for duplicated posts.

If a user updates feeds and then deletes what they don’t want the next update brings them ALL back…very annoying.

I figured the permalinks from the meta table would at least be compared against so this didn’t happen. It looks like the plugin just cleans the meta table instead of doing a compare. The plugin doesn’t correctly look for duplicates. Or it doesn’t store the data necessary for this type of compare. Any suggestions??

I would love to send you the modified plugin and see if you want to incorporate the changes. If not I would love to release it as a “FeedWordPress Pro”.

Your thoughts on all of this…

Thanks Ken Villines

]]> By: Nick http://projects.radgeek.com/2005/03/30/feedwordpress-09/#comment-141 Nick Mon, 04 Jul 2005 15:33:53 +0000 http://projects.radgeek.com/2005/03/30/feedwordpress-09/#comment-141 <p>Hi,</p> <p>This looks to be an amazing plugin and does exactly what I am after. However I am having the exact same issue as pdx - I get an empty Options > Syndication page?</p> <p>I am on PHP5 here and I was wondering if that was the reason? </p> Hi,

This looks to be an amazing plugin and does exactly what I am after. However I am having the exact same issue as pdx - I get an empty Options > Syndication page?

I am on PHP5 here and I was wondering if that was the reason?

]]> By: M Bostick http://projects.radgeek.com/2005/03/30/feedwordpress-09/#comment-82 M Bostick Fri, 13 May 2005 13:45:57 +0000 http://projects.radgeek.com/2005/03/30/feedwordpress-09/#comment-82 <p>I keep getting the following error when trying to syndicate my content. I have quite a few blogs that I am pulling from, but this just started about a day ago. It looks as if some of the content is coming across, but not all of it.</p> <p>Error:</p> <p>Sending ping to ...</p> <p>The XML-RPC ping failed (remote): Sorry. I don't syndicate . </p> I keep getting the following error when trying to syndicate my content. I have quite a few blogs that I am pulling from, but this just started about a day ago. It looks as if some of the content is coming across, but not all of it.

Error:

Sending ping to …

The XML-RPC ping failed (remote): Sorry. I don’t syndicate .

]]> By: Rad Geek's Projects http://projects.radgeek.com/2005/03/30/feedwordpress-09/#comment-23 Rad Geek's Projects Sat, 09 Apr 2005 19:35:06 +0000 http://projects.radgeek.com/2005/03/30/feedwordpress-09/#comment-23 <p><strong>FeedWordPress 0.91</strong></p> <p>[FeedWordPress 0.91][1] is now available for download.</p> <p>0.91 is a release that squashes a few bugs and adds a few useful features. Really, it adds enough useful features that it's worth an increment of 0.1 rather than 0.01, but it's not where I wan...</p> FeedWordPress 0.91

[FeedWordPress 0.91][1] is now available for download.

0.91 is a release that squashes a few bugs and adds a few useful features. Really, it adds enough useful features that it’s worth an increment of 0.1 rather than 0.01, but it’s not where I wan…

]]> By: junap http://projects.radgeek.com/2005/03/30/feedwordpress-09/#comment-21 junap Fri, 08 Apr 2005 19:57:03 +0000 http://projects.radgeek.com/2005/03/30/feedwordpress-09/#comment-21 <p>oops, that comment stripped the address to xmlrpc.php after "Sending ping to", but it's there in the error message.</p> oops, that comment stripped the address to xmlrpc.php after “Sending ping to”, but it’s there in the error message.

]]> By: junap http://projects.radgeek.com/2005/03/30/feedwordpress-09/#comment-20 junap Fri, 08 Apr 2005 19:54:39 +0000 http://projects.radgeek.com/2005/03/30/feedwordpress-09/#comment-20 <p>hi there,</p> <p>I'm running into a problem when running FWP. If I call up the update-feed.php file (with or without the secret word), I get this error message:</p> <p>update-feeds: instruct FeedWordPress to look for new syndicated content</p> <p>Sending ping to ...</p> <p>The XML-RPC ping failed (local): transport error - HTTP status code was not 200 </p> <p>I have only 1 feed set up (BBC Music at http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline<em>uk</em>edition/entertainment/music/rss.xml ), but it's not kicking in (shows up fine in my links though)</p> hi there,

I’m running into a problem when running FWP. If I call up the update-feed.php file (with or without the secret word), I get this error message:

update-feeds: instruct FeedWordPress to look for new syndicated content

Sending ping to …

The XML-RPC ping failed (local): transport error - HTTP status code was not 200

I have only 1 feed set up (BBC Music at http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonlineukedition/entertainment/music/rss.xml ), but it’s not kicking in (shows up fine in my links though)

]]> By: Daniel http://projects.radgeek.com/2005/03/30/feedwordpress-09/#comment-18 Daniel Fri, 08 Apr 2005 10:05:02 +0000 http://projects.radgeek.com/2005/03/30/feedwordpress-09/#comment-18 <p>Grat plugin!</p> <p>I've a problem. Inthe window of standard WordPress Link record I don´t see the Link Notes: key1: value1 key2: value2 key3: value3 feed/key1: value1 feed/key2: value2</p> <p>I wokr with WordPress 1.5 in Spanish. Tanks in advance!</p> Grat plugin!

I’ve a problem. Inthe window of standard WordPress Link record I don´t see the Link Notes: key1: value1 key2: value2 key3: value3 feed/key1: value1 feed/key2: value2

I wokr with WordPress 1.5 in Spanish. Tanks in advance!

]]> By: Andrew http://projects.radgeek.com/2005/03/30/feedwordpress-09/#comment-15 Andrew Thu, 07 Apr 2005 21:46:05 +0000 http://projects.radgeek.com/2005/03/30/feedwordpress-09/#comment-15 <p>Very cool plugin idea - adding feeds to the links is much more cleaner than my current solution! I'm getting the same blank Options page problem as the previous commenter atm, but it works great otherwise :-)</p> Very cool plugin idea - adding feeds to the links is much more cleaner than my current solution! I’m getting the same blank Options page problem as the previous commenter atm, but it works great otherwise :-)

]]> By: pdx http://projects.radgeek.com/2005/03/30/feedwordpress-09/#comment-9 pdx Mon, 04 Apr 2005 16:25:05 +0000 http://projects.radgeek.com/2005/03/30/feedwordpress-09/#comment-9 <p>Thanks for your reply, I hope this gets fixed somehome/sometime whatsoever ;)</p> <p>Just so you know my server config, i am using: >> Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) PHP/4.3.10 rus/PL30.17</p> <p>>> iconv support: enabled<br /> >> iconv implementation: libiconv >> iconv library version: 1.9</p> <p>Also, what about the problem when I get an empty Options > Syndication page? I was not able to fix this.</p> Thanks for your reply, I hope this gets fixed somehome/sometime whatsoever ;)

Just so you know my server config, i am using: >> Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) PHP/4.3.10 rus/PL30.17

>> iconv support: enabled
>> iconv implementation: libiconv >> iconv library version: 1.9

Also, what about the problem when I get an empty Options > Syndication page? I was not able to fix this.

]]> By: Rad Geek http://projects.radgeek.com/2005/03/30/feedwordpress-09/#comment-8 Rad Geek Mon, 04 Apr 2005 03:24:18 +0000 http://projects.radgeek.com/2005/03/30/feedwordpress-09/#comment-8 <p>Thanks for reporting this problem.</p> <p>I'll do my level best to track down the origin of this problem, but I'm not tremendously optimistic. The problem is that dealing with character encoding in PHP is something of a mess unless you are using PHP5, and it's very hard to predict whether a given user's platform will correctly handle a particular alternate character set if that character set is anything other than UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, or US-ASCII. (The example feed that you give is encoded in windows-1251.) If your set-up does not have iconv, or has a broken version of it (like the one that ships with PHP 4.2.2), then this will cause problems like the ones you are seeing whenever you try to use a feed in an encoding other than one of these three.</p> <p>In the meantime, what I will probably do for the next bugfix release is to create an option that will bypass all attempts to convert the character set. There are some reasons why this is less than ideal, but it may do as a kludge to solve the problems that you are having.</p> <p>Hope this helps.</p> Thanks for reporting this problem.

I’ll do my level best to track down the origin of this problem, but I’m not tremendously optimistic. The problem is that dealing with character encoding in PHP is something of a mess unless you are using PHP5, and it’s very hard to predict whether a given user’s platform will correctly handle a particular alternate character set if that character set is anything other than UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, or US-ASCII. (The example feed that you give is encoded in windows-1251.) If your set-up does not have iconv, or has a broken version of it (like the one that ships with PHP 4.2.2), then this will cause problems like the ones you are seeing whenever you try to use a feed in an encoding other than one of these three.

In the meantime, what I will probably do for the next bugfix release is to create an option that will bypass all attempts to convert the character set. There are some reasons why this is less than ideal, but it may do as a kludge to solve the problems that you are having.

Hope this helps.

]]>