Comments on: FeedWordPress 0.96 is loose

By: Steve Garratt

Steve Garratt — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 10:34:29 +0000

Version 0.97 makes posts that cause my rss feed to become “Not well-formed”. This appears to happen with feeds that use GET arguments in the link. Examination of the source feed shows that the offending links are enclosed in sections but feedwordpress strips out the CDATA information. XML readers then fail because they think the link is not well formed. The output of my feed viewed in Firefox is below. I would very much like to get this problem solved because this is a great script otherwise.

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed Location: http://how-to-reduce-cholesterol.magicblur.com/feed/ Line Number 33, Column 117: http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/alacite/scienceactualites/sitesactu/fsbreves2.php?langue=an&idbreve=1274 ——————————————————————————————————————–^

By: Michael HIpp

Michael HIpp — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 06:14:11 +0000

For some reason I cannot post the tags. There are tags that state “gallery1″ in the rss feed which allow me to post dynamic images for each post.

By: Michael HIpp

Michael HIpp — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 06:12:31 +0000

oops, it did not put the tags in the above post It was (without the spaces between the word and the tags.

By: Michael HIpp

Michael HIpp — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 06:10:27 +0000

I am using feedwordpress and am pulling affiliate information from a sponsor site. I LOVE this plug-in. I managed to get through the Cron Job issues with the new release and I almost have everything set up. Here is my trouble. The RSS feed that I am pulling has a ton of information. The problem is, FeedWordPress only displays information from the standard Title, Category and Discription tags. How can I get the script to read and display items from nonstandard RSS tags such as the example below? Example snippet from the RSS feed:

‘ http://www.Yoursite.com/opensite.aspx?SiteID=552&fld=GalleryLink&mid=867 ‘

This is my last step in this whole process and I’ve hit a brick wall.

By: Cell Phone Reviews

Cell Phone Reviews — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 14:18:59 +0000

What is the function of:

Image URI

When I set this field to a gif file, it does not show up in any of the new posts.

By: Rad Geek

Rad Geek — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 20:20:19 +0000

Here’s an example of using HTTP authentication through curl to update your blog. Suppose that you have a FeedWordPress installation at http://xyz.com/ and you’ve created a user with login name “Update” and password “dummy” in your WordPress User database. Then you can update using:

 curl --user Update:dummy \ 
     http://xyz.com/wp-content/update-feeds.php \
     -d update=quiet

If you just point your web browser to the update-feeds.php location to update manually, you can log in through the normal WordPress login mechanisms.

Hope this helps.

By: Cell Phone Reviews

Cell Phone Reviews — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 16:22:44 +0000

Can you give an example in using the HTTP authentication?

By: Rad Geek

Rad Geek — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 07:23:32 +0000

Cell Phone Reviews,

That’s correct. You don’t need to specify the secret word in the URI anymore. FeedWordPress will fetch it out of the database just as it does with command line requests. Instead, update-feeds.php now checks for WordPress login information; to instruct it to update, you should provide the login information for one of the users in your WP database. (You can do this using HTTP authentication — e.g. using curl’s –user option.)

By: Cell Phone Reviews

Cell Phone Reviews — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 00:32:07 +0000

Thanks for the update. I have a question about setting up a Cron job.

In the new docs, it says to use the following format:

cd $HOME/www/wp/wp-content ; php -q update-feeds.php

In the previous update I was specifing the XML-RPC Update secret word such as this format:

/usr/bin/curl http://www.domain.com/wp-content/update-feeds.php?shibboleth=XXXX

We no longer need to specify the XML-RPC Update secret word when running update-feeds.php?

By: Rad Geek's Projects

Rad Geek's Projects — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 22:52:38 +0000

FeedWordPress 0.97: one small increment for the revision number, one giant leap for the software

Huzzah! FeedWordPress 0.97 is now available for download (also in zip format, if you're in to that kind of thing).