FeedWordPress 0.981: bugfix and compatibility release allowing use with WordPress 2.1(posted on 16 February 2007)

Update 2007-11-21: FeedWordPress 0.981 is now out of date. You can download the latest release — 0.991 at the time of this writing — from the project homepage.

There’s a lot to say about some long-awaited and frustratingly long-delayed improvements to FeedWordPress, but I don’t have much time tonight, so I’ll be brief.

FeedWordPress is now compatible with WordPress 2.1. Version 0.981 is now available for download (also available in zip format); the major feature behind this release is code to accommodate the changes to the structure of WordPress’s database between version 2.0.x and 2.1, which until now caused a number of SQL errors and prevented WordPress from syndicating new posts when installed with the latest version of WordPress.

There is one important change that you should note about the installation procedure. Due to what seems to me like a fairly pointless bit of wordsmithing on the part of the WordPress development team, you now need to install two files from the OPTIONAL/wp-includes directory in order to successfully upgrade your version of MagpieRSS. (The upgrade is necessary for FeedWordPress to support enclosures, multiple categories, or Atom 1.0 feeds.) Be sure that you copy both rss-functions.php and rss.php to your wp-includes directory when upgrading MagpieRSS; if you copy only rss-functions.php you will not end up with a working MagpieRSS (or FeedWordPress) installation.

In addition to the compatibility update, and the changes to the installation procedure, some changes have been made to the user interface code which should help FeedWordPress’s pages fit in better with the WordPress 2.x user interface. In particular, the “Categories” checkboxes for assigning categories to all posts syndicated from any source (under Options –> Syndication) or to all posts syndicated from a particular feed (under Blogroll –> Syndicated) should no longer cause an ugly spill all over the interface.

There are also some important fixes to some outstanding and irritating bugs. Here’s a quick summary of the other changes in this release:

  • DATE BUG AFFECTING SOME PHP INSTALLATIONS RESOLVED: due to a subtle bug in parse_w3cdtf(), some installations of PHP encountered problems with FeedWordPress’s attempt to date posts, which would cause some new posts on Atom feeds to be dated as if they had apppeared in 1969 or 1970 (thus, effectively, never appearing on front apge at all). This bug in the date handling should now be fixed.

  • PHP <?=...?> SHORT FORM ELIMINATED: some installations of PHP do not allow the <?=...?> short form for printing PHP values, which was used extensively in the FeedWordPress interface code. Since this could cause fatal errors for users with the wrong installation of PHP, the short form has been replaced with full PHP echo statements, and is no longer used in FeedWordPress.

  • GLOBAL CATEGORIES BUG RESOLVED: a bug that prevented some users from setting one or more categories to apply to syndicated posts from all feeds (using the checkbox interface under Options –> Syndication) has been resolved.

Please note that 0.981 is preliminary work which I hope will be followed by ongoing work to better integrate FeedWordPress with the new features offered by recent releases of WordPress. If you encounter any problems with it, please be sure to get in touch with me and send as detailed a report of the bug you are encountering as possible. In the next few weeks I hope to be working on a number of other improvements that will bring much more substantial changes to both the user experience and the technical underpinnings for FeedWordPress. As we move towards a 1.0 release, I have high hopes that your experience as a user will get substantially simpler, while the back-end will become substantially more sophisticated.

In any case, watch this space: it’s been slow for the pas several months, but there are some big things coming soon.

Enjoy!

posted by Rad Geek @ 11:51 pm | talk back

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  1. Mar replied:

    Hi: Not working with godaddy shared hosting.(wp2.1) The dreamhost working. thanks.

    Show error when activate:

    Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /address_to/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/feedwordpress.php on line 2745

    Sorry don’t want left email. Mar

    posted 17 February 2007 at 2:51 am

  2. Mar replied:

    dreamhost found error when click “use this feed” WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ')' at line 2] INSERT INTO wplink2cat (linkid, category_id) VALUES (16, )

    posted 17 February 2007 at 3:36 am

  3. Ar replied:

    It didnt work bro I activated it and it went blank the whole wp-admin went blank

    posted 17 February 2007 at 7:09 am

  4. joseph replied:

    Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/vendlus/public_html/artists/vendlus/wp-content/plugins/feedwordpress.php on line 2745

    having trouble when i went to install any suggestions? thanks!

    joseph

    posted 17 February 2007 at 2:21 pm

  5. Rad Geek replied:

    Mar, Ar, and joseph,

    The problems you had upgrading were due to a stupid typo on my part. If you download another copy of FeedWordPress, it should now have a fix to that typo in place which will eliminate that problem.

    Mar,

    I’m not sure what’s causing the wp_link2cat error with Dreamhost. As far as FeedWordPress is concerned, what’s causing that is a standard call to the WordPress 2.1 API, so this may be a problem with WordPress, or with your local PHP installation, rather than with FWP. I’ll investigate the relevant WordPress files to see if I can figure out anything about what might be causing the problem.

    posted 17 February 2007 at 4:52 pm

  6. Mar replied:

    Now activate no problem after redownload on godaddy hosting. But the same problem when click “use this feed”:

    WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ')' at line 2] INSERT INTO wplink2cat (linkid, category_id) VALUES (9, )

    Of course nothing happen when update the feeds. Try many different feeds and all new installed wp2.1, same.

    Using wp2.05 and yours 0.98 never had any problem on both servers. but thanks for hard work. Mar

    posted 18 February 2007 at 2:07 am

  7. Mar replied:

    ok, one more thing, using wp2.1 rss function to import rss feeds. working perfect on both servers. M

    posted 18 February 2007 at 2:09 am

  8. paul replied:

    Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/haskellg/public_html/estore/wp-admin/admin-header.php:16) in /home/haskellg/public_html/estore/wp-includes/functions.php on line 1219 Error: I don’t syndicate tag:radgeek.com/projects/feedwordpress/aa0f78

    Wp 2.1

    I got the header erors after install. Ignored them and then got the I dont syndicate error.

    Bummer because I would rather use yours.

    posted 18 February 2007 at 4:11 am

  9. dude replied:

    jeez…I’m on dreamhost and as soon as I turn this thing on I hit their memory limit…that can’t be right.

    posted 21 February 2007 at 4:16 pm

  10. Jace » Blog Archive » Feedwordpress updated for Wordpress 2.1:

    [...] upgrade for feedwordpres for Wordpress 2.1. He was glad too, and here is the new release FeedWordpr [...]

    posted 21 February 2007 at 6:08 pm

  11. Rob - Web page tools replied:

    Hi ,

    I upgraded to Wordpress 2.1 and also upgraded feedwordpress to o.981 to remove the sql error, even though the plugin still worked with the error.

    All works fine when manually updating but the problem i have is another new blog using wordpress 2.07 and feedwordpress 0.98 i can update with cron in cpanel but the wordpress version 2.1 with feedwordpress 0.981 doesnt update with cron. Same host just different accounts and different servers, only differences are the working one had wordpress in the root and the non working one has it in a subdirectory and also has php 4.4.2 as opposed to 4.4.4 working one), cant work out why the one not working doesnt as im using the same cron instruction just different url. I can only think cron isnt installed on one im sure it worked the first time and then stopped. I changed to updated every hour to see if by having to fetch less posts each time helps.

    Any ideas?

    posted 22 February 2007 at 2:53 pm

  12. Alex replied:

    Hello and thanks for usefull plugin!

    Some problem with download links - can’t get both zip & tar.

    posted 23 February 2007 at 2:12 pm

  13. lazy replied:

    Wonderful :) it works fine in many versions for me..thanks a ton :)

    posted 24 February 2007 at 4:38 am

  14. Alex replied:

    Strange, now download is OK…

    Anyway, thanks and good luck!

    posted 24 February 2007 at 10:50 am

  15. Kad replied:

    I got the same error as Paul. (I have WordPress 2.1.1) I get it when trying to add a new feed under Blogroll–>Syndication.

    I can enter the feed and enter “syndicate”, which takes me to the “Feed Finder: New Syndicated Feed” page, but then when I hit “Use this feed” it gives the error:

    Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/usern/public_html/wp-admin/admin-header.php:16) in /home/usern/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 1219

    Any ideas?

    posted 25 February 2007 at 5:33 am

  16. Kad replied:

    Just wanted to also note that I tried overwriting rss.php and rss-functions.php with the included versions, but that didn’t resolve it.

    posted 25 February 2007 at 5:50 am

  17. David replied:

    I was wondering if you had noticed that there’s a problem when importing feeds from Blogger. I’ve run across several people who report that they have blank posts when they import feeds from Blogger. The titles and dates come through fine, but the posts are blank… any ideas?

    Wordpress Forum here

    posted 27 February 2007 at 2:08 am

  18. emile replied:

    Is there soome problem with sudomains? I’m trying to aggregate the feed from sub1.domain.com/feed/ to a second wp blog on sub2.domain.com.

    But it keeps saying ‘no feed found’

    Works flawless with external feeds, tho.

    posted 27 February 2007 at 5:38 pm

  19. Daniel replied:

    Hi, the plugin works finde for me (thank you!!) but it converts the Tags from Ultimate Tag Warroir to categories when importing - and I don’t want to have posts with like 20 categories.. is there a way around this?

    Tank you!

    posted 4 March 2007 at 8:24 am

  20. Dennis replied:

    Rad

    some things I could use for a next release

    1. cronless support for WP

    2. It seems when using many feeds there is a time-out, restart the update-feeds.php again the update starts where it left (some kind of time-out)

    3. Auto update without hitting the update button, through http access

    some things I like to see in the near-by-future update(s)

    posted 5 March 2007 at 7:52 am

  21. mstormo replied:

    The provided rss.php has a bug in it which will timestamp some feeds back to the 1970’s :-)

    The regexp capture on seconds is incorrect, and includes the ‘:’ in front. To fix this simply change the following: @@ -1546,7 +1546,7 @@

     if ( preg_match( $pat, $date_str, $match ) ) {
     list( $year, $month, $day, $hours, $minutes, $seconds) =

    - array( $match[1], $match[3], $match[5], $match[7], $match[8], $match[9]); + array( $match[1], $match[3], $match[5], $match[7], $match[8], $match[10].$match[11]);

         # W3C dates can omit the time, the day of the month, or even the month.
    # Fill in any blanks using information from the present moment. --CWJ

    @@ -1632,4 +1632,4 @@ return false; } }

    posted 10 March 2007 at 7:19 am

  22. mstormo replied:

    Ok, the code above is a bit badly formated (the ‘- array’ and ‘+ array’ are supposed to be on separate lines), but you get the drift. The ‘$match[9]‘ needs to change to ‘$match[10].$match[11]‘, then it works again.

    Good luck!

    posted 10 March 2007 at 7:21 am

  23. Riccardo replied:

    Hello,

    I also have this error:

    WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘)’ at line 2] INSERT INTO wplink2cat (linkid, category_id) VALUES (9, )

    When i select the feed.

    When I update it does’t filter the categories but grab it all.

    The link under blog roll is not displayed in the Comtributors category.

    So wp_link2cat is not actualy writing its stuff in the DB.

    Thanks for the good job.

    ps: it worked on one wordpress website on three.

    posted 10 March 2007 at 9:05 pm

  24. mike replied:

    The plugin works splendidly, just wondering if I need to rtfm or its not there, I can’t seem to get podcast enclosures from the feeds, and is there a way to integrate utw? Thanks

    posted 11 March 2007 at 10:40 am

  25. nerrad replied:

    Just want to echo the problem mike is having. I can’t seem to get podcast enclosures either from feeds. I am taking a closer look at the code tonight - if I notice a fix I’ll update here.

    posted 13 March 2007 at 7:26 pm

  26. nerrad replied:

    also - in version .98 a syndicated post with multiple categories would be added to the database and filed in the categories of the original post along with what I selected in the edit syndicate link page. However, with version .981 the posts are only going into the category I’ve selected on the edit syndicate link page.

    posted 13 March 2007 at 7:35 pm

  27. mcangeli replied:

    This worked great on php 4.* however, when I moved the site to a server running php5 the dates became 1970….

    posted 16 March 2007 at 10:46 am

  28. Jeremy replied:

    FYI, I’m getting the same date bug on Atom feeds with FWP 0.9.8.1, WP 2.0.5. Is there a workaround for somebody who could hack the code themselves?

    posted 18 March 2007 at 12:26 pm

  29. Jeremy replied:

    This is w/ PHP 5.2.1, BTW, on the leftlibertarian.org site.

    posted 18 March 2007 at 12:59 pm

  30. Rad Geek replied:

    Hey y’all,

    Those who are experiencing the 1970 date bug should re-download FeedWordPress 0.981. I checked and found that I’d accidentally reverted the bundled rss.php to an earlier version that did not include this bug fix. The archive now includes the correct version of rss.php, which should solve the problem.

    I’m looking into the database error that some people are experiencing with categories. Hopefully this should be fixed in FWP 0.99 within a week or so. Those of you who are experiencing this: what versions of WordPress and PHP are you using?

    posted 18 March 2007 at 1:42 pm

  31. Jeremy replied:

    Wow. For free software, that is turnaround. ;-) Thanks for moving so quickly, it works great now!

    posted 18 March 2007 at 10:21 pm

  32. Mar replied:

    wp2.1.2 total not working for all hosting! It look like working on some hosting but not. All the feed links got cut or wrong links(it was ok when preview). Back to wp2.0.5 and fwp0.98 everything fine.

    posted 19 March 2007 at 3:26 pm

  33. john replied:

    running .981 and 2.1.2 - get the following error:

    Error: I don’t Syndicate

    Any help?

    posted 24 March 2007 at 11:50 pm

  34. Diego replied:

    Hi Chris, I’m having this error with v0.981 of your FeedWordpress plugin:

    Error: I don’t syndicate tag:radgeek.com/projects/feedwordpress/xxx

    where xxx is the password I set

    I’m using wp 2.12.

    Could you give me a hand, man? Thanks!

    Diego [ProfesorBlog] http://www.profesorblog.com

    posted 17 April 2007 at 4:33 am

  35. Ma Yuxi replied:

    Hi! I have problem with encoding (charset?). I use WP2.1.3 and when i update feeds it’s comes in strange encoding. I’m from Russia and i recieve feeds from russian, chinese sites. But it’s all going to chaos. Please help me! And sorry for my english!

    posted 22 April 2007 at 10:56 pm

  36. Ron Staple replied:

    I have exactly the same problem with DreamHost. Any thougts??

    WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘)’ at line 2] INSERT INTO wplink2cat (linkid, category_id) VALUES (16, )

    Ron Staple

    posted 13 May 2007 at 10:56 pm

  37. Gilbert Palau replied:

    I installed FeedWordPress 0.991. I had no problems whatsoever and its doing more or less what I need.

    One thing I would like to change though, is instead of seeing the author of the original post, I would like to see where the post came from, if possibly substituing the Author line.

    For example if it grabs an article from this site, instead of posting the Author as Charles, I would like it to post the name of the site:

    News Title goes here News from: projects.radgeek.com Category

    How could I do that? Is there anyway?

    Thanks!

    posted 7 January 2008 at 12:17 pm

  38. David Sweeney replied:

    We’re trying to use the feedwordpress plugin, but the software is not importing the enclosures. We are using Wordpress 2.3.1 and the latest feedwordpress (0.991 I think). I copied over the rss.php and rss-functions.php files. The post is imported perfectly - there is just no link to the enclosure.

    Do you have any suggestions for fixing this?

    posted 9 January 2008 at 1:05 am

  39. David Watts Jr. replied:

    I have no problem importing RSS feeds. All works great.

    But my site’s RSS feed is busted and has errors in it. For example, feedburner says of my feed (MyYankeesTeam.com/feed):

    The URL you entered does not appear to be a valid feed. We encountered the following problem: Error on line 18: The reference to entity “content_id” must end with the ‘;’ delimiter.

    WordPress version 2.3.2 running on Midphase.com - another WP blog of mine on same server, same version of WP, but without feedwordpress has no problem with its rss feeds (themccainmutiny.com)

    Any ideas?

    posted 20 February 2008 at 3:28 pm

  40. Ivan | JobsBlog.ie replied:

    I presume the importing the Tags of the original post is not supported (jet?)?

    What I mean is when importing posts from one blog to another, presuming both are on the WordPress 2.3.3 – and both support the Tags with the blog posts – can the Tags from the source blog post be copied to the target one?

    Ivan | http://www.JobsBlog.ie

    posted 20 March 2008 at 11:01 am

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