Replies to FeedWordPress 0.991: bug fixes, reorganization, minor features added — and MU compatability (41 so far…)

1. Rad Geek’s Comments Elsewhere / Re: Feed problem with media:title says:

   22 November 2007 at 3:00 am

   [...] FeedWordPress users may be pleased to know that this bug has been fixed in the latest release of FeedWordPress, version 0.991. [...]
2. Blogie says:

   22 November 2007 at 12:39 pm

   Yipee an upgrade!! Congrats! I looove your plugin. I use it for the aggregator site of some of my city’s best blogs.

   One request? I wish FeedWordPress would have the functionality to NOT update already-aggregated posts from syndicated blogs. See, when posts are edited or modified by their authors, FeedWordPress seems to treat these modified posts as new entries. Hence, I get duplicate posts in the aggregator site.

   On the whole, I am very very happy with your plugin. Thanks!!! m(_ _)m
3. FeedWordPress 0.991 is released | Web 2.0 Tutorials - Tutorial Vine says:

   22 November 2007 at 12:50 pm

   [...] the new version here. Related posts Evil Automated Income #1 – Onlywire and Feedwordpress*** Disclaimer: The [...]
4. DigiZen: Un blogfesor aprendiendo » FeedWordPress ahora es compatible con WPMU says:

   22 November 2007 at 2:50 pm

   [...] nueva versión de FeedWordPres, un plugin para crear planetas de blogs en WordPress,   es ahora compatible con [...]
5. Zed says:

   23 November 2007 at 10:54 pm

   What do I need to do to get the links to open in a new window?

   Thanks
6. lazyleo says:

   25 November 2007 at 1:40 am

   Thanks Rad Geek :) this is really nice of you keep giving to the community,

   Have a nice Day.

   Regards, Kenny G
7. Steve J Bayer says:

   3 December 2007 at 1:13 pm

   Great plug in, my overall fave aggregator
8. jeff says:

   6 December 2007 at 5:10 am

   on one of my blog when im activate feedworpress the plugin page become blank and unavailable:( the syndicate button is there but the plugin page on worpress is unreachable because i get a blank page i use wordpress-2.3.1 can you help me out:(
9. Marre says:

   7 December 2007 at 5:48 pm

   Any news on filtering? I really want to auto-assign categories to posts with the help of keywords, but I don’t know enough PHP to make it work.
10. Steve J Bayer says:

    8 December 2007 at 11:34 am

    Great Plugin, My overall fave aggregator for WPMU.
11. Kaleo Silva says:

    9 December 2007 at 10:37 am

    Blogie,

    To make feedwordpress ignore updated posts, just find this line:

    $this->_freshness = 1; // Updated content

    and replace with

    $this->_freshness = 0;

    This will make it treat updated posts as old posts and not update them in your database.
12. Jon Phillips says:

    9 December 2007 at 9:27 pm

    This is an awesome update! Thanks for getting it into SVN! Now I will run from the latest stable branch always!

    But, when I upgrade to the latest, when I go to either the Syndication Option or

    http://overlap.org/wp-admin/feedwordpress/syndication-options.php

    or

    http://overlap.org/wp-admin/feedwordpress/feedwordpress.php

    FWP, automatically loads up all posts outside the admin interface? I can’t find a workaround right now…anyone else getting this?
13. Jon Phillips says:

    9 December 2007 at 9:33 pm

    Nevermind, my main feedwordpress folder I had named ‘feedwordpress-svn’ which was causing the problem. Once I named ‘feedwordpress’ as you recommended, then all worked well. Cheers!
14. dinamic says:

    13 December 2007 at 1:16 pm

    Hi, great plugin! it’s awesome, sure.

    Just three comments to know how to improve some new things on the plugin.

    1. I want to display in every post displayed a intro of few words, for example characters. And finally a “read more” link to the full post in the original blog syndicated. Do you know if it’s possible? any “code” to add to my template?

    2. Now the plugin displays “comments” and it’s linked to the original blog comments zone. Is it possible to show the exactly number of comments in the original blog post, like “6 comments”. And of course be linked to the comments zone. Do you know if it’s possible? any “code” to add to my template?

    3. I’ve read your API and documentation several times but i don’t find how to display this info: I want to syndicate may be 20 blogs and i want to show only the last post of each one. So in the syndication page i will find only 20 posts, one of each blog, but each one must be the latest one. Do you know if it’s possible? any “code” to add to my template?

    4. Finally, in point 3 i’ve wrote that i’m going to syndicate 20 blogs displaying the last post. It’s possible to syndicate 20 and onlye display the last 10 posts updated with the same criteria (only display the last post of each blog, showing in this case only 10 of 20?) Do you know if it’s possible? any “code” to add to my template?

    THANKS A LOT!

    This would be great to use in any wordpress installation and of course in a wpmu installation. I think this could be possible because the api is very customizable but i don’t find how to do it or the way to do it.

    Any help are going to be vry appreciated.

    Thanks a lot, regards, i’m waiting a response from you. ;)
15. nullamatix says:

    19 December 2007 at 7:57 am

    Rad Geek!

    Sent you an email yesterday, not sure if it went to spam or not. I’ve yet to receive a reply, so here I am :) Perhaps this will spark some discussion.

    Anyway, here’s the question:

    I was wondering how difficult auto inserting rel="nofollow" into every retrieved URI would be. Can you provide some guidance? I’ve been looking through the code but PHP isn’t anything like coldfusion.
16. Premasagar says:

    21 December 2007 at 5:47 pm

    Very nice. Thank you for releasing and maintaining this.

    I’d like to have it assign any tags or categories from the RSS as WordPress post tags (rather than WordPress categories). I’d still like the option to post a feed’s posts to a specific WordPress category, though.

    Any thoughts or suggestions before I lunch into the code?
17. Amirali says:

    24 December 2007 at 1:38 pm

    i hope dinamic you got your solution but i m looking for the same solution can anyone help me with the same query as dinamic had.

    waiting to hear from the author.

    tc
18. mark says:

    26 December 2007 at 10:08 pm

    Is it possible to display the contents of the feeds, as well as the titles?
19. arun says:

    6 January 2008 at 12:03 pm

    I tried it with Atom feeds provided by blogspot sites. ( hosted free on blogger.com). But it is syndicating only title of feed not full feed. It is working great with RSS feed. How can i resolve problem with Atom feed. Sending you message too regarding this.
20. xonito says:

    7 January 2008 at 10:54 am

    No work fine with wordpress 2.3.2, no indexing a categories :(. Please, a need a soluction.
21. David Sweeney says:

    9 January 2008 at 1:08 am

    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?
22. David Sweeney says:

    9 January 2008 at 1:19 am

    Ignore my earlier comment. The RSS IS displaying the enclosure correctly. The issue is that a link to the enclosure is NOT being displayed in the post. Our users like to be able to click on the link off the website if they are not subscribed. We use anarchy to embed a player for links to media files so the users can click on the website. It would be nice to have an option in FeedWordPress to “Include link to the enclosure”.
23. John Mark says:

    10 January 2008 at 6:30 pm

    I have 2 working implementations of feedwordpress, so I was a big flummoxed to discover that installing it a 3rd time on wordpress 2.3.2 yielded a “no feed found” error. Any guesses why this one would work?

    The underlying PHP is 5.1.4.

    -JM
24. Steve says:

    16 January 2008 at 8:36 am

    A few of my feeds have query strings in them that were being ignored.

    I fixed the problem by removing the call to wp_specialchars in the sample preview form on lines 639 and 643 – all works OK now.
25. Steve says:

    16 January 2008 at 11:47 am

    Delete previous comment. It doesn’t work as expected. Somewhere the ampersands are being converted and breaking the feed :(
26. SHGirl says:

    18 January 2008 at 5:01 am

    Love the plug in except all my entries are going backwards. I was feeding in LJ friends and all their newest entries are at the bottom and the oldest are on top. Is there something I should be doing? Everything else works lovely. Thanks!
27. dave says:

    24 January 2008 at 1:09 am

    Here’s my first problem with feedwordpress… feedburner gives this result, after an autoupdate using cron job, havent tried without cron job yet.. The URL you entered does not appear to be a valid feed. We encountered the following problem: Error on line 33: The reference to entity “ct” must end with the ‘;’ delimiter. So far I’ve had to deactivate feedwordpress then reactivate to again have a valid feed again— help!!! I dont want to shut it down but need the feeds
28. dave says:

    24 January 2008 at 2:54 am

    found the problem, dont know how to filter the feed, it was actually an update that caused the ‘bad’ post from showing up. each bad post link is like this: LA Poker Classic Begins Thursday – CardPlayer.com

    the ct= caused the error apparently, it was looking for a ; rather than =, if I edit manually the link down to: LA Poker Classic Begins Thursday – CardPlayer.com then there is no error, so how do I filter this???
29. Niro says:

    24 January 2008 at 6:16 am

    Hi there seems to be a bug when I try to syndicate feedwordpress with wordpress sub diomains. Some sub domains works but some don’t can you address this issue..

    Hmm for example http://hamzeen.wordpress.com when syndicated I get only the header.. The content is said “A”

    Please tell me why is this..
30. gigger says:

    29 January 2008 at 11:49 pm

    There is a serious problem with FeedWordPress 0.991. In automatic mode it can’t syndicate the Feeds with embedded video (like YouTube ones) when “Check for new posts” option set to “automatically”. All the videos are being stripped off!

    On the other hand, FeedWordPress 0.991 does syndicate such feeds w/o any problems in case if “Check for new posts” option is set to “only when I request”.

    Is there any solution to fix this problem? Otherwise the new version of FeedWordPress is useless for everyone who want to syndicate feeds with embedded flash videos.

    Please help!
31. Richy says:

    31 January 2008 at 4:22 pm

    Great plugin.. I have a feature request :) Who hasn’t :P

    I found this autotag plugin which uses the yahoo term extraction web service.

    It runs whenever you press save after typing your post. Is their a way to integrate this plugin into feedwordpress?

    The autotag plugin: http://www.semiologic.com/software/publishing/autotag/
32. Richy says:

    31 January 2008 at 5:28 pm

    Strike that last comment. I already found the way to integrate the Yahoo! term extraction service into feedwordpress.php using part of the autotag plugin.
33. John Thompson says:

    1 February 2008 at 11:34 am

    I’ve got the same problem as Blogie. Namely that if we edit posts once they have been syndicated into Word Press, then the old unedited post is added again when you come to update from Feedwordpress again.

    I think Kaleo Silva might have misunderstood the problem. When I tried his solution new items in the original RSS feed are not being syndicated.
34. T Agee says:

    1 February 2008 at 9:04 pm

    Seems like just what I need, but does it work with video? When I put in a YouTube feed, for example, I get a long link with all sorts of info as the post title, but no video.

    Thanks.
35. Rad Geek says:

    4 February 2008 at 10:53 pm

    Niro:

    Hi there seems to be a bug when I try to syndicate feedwordpress with wordpress sub diomains. Some sub domains works but some don’t can you address this issue..

    Hmm for example http://hamzeen.wordpress.com when syndicated I get only the header.. The content is said “A”

    From your description of the problem it sounds like you need to install, or re-install, the optional MagpieRSS upgrade. In order to do so, copy the files rss.php and rss-functions.php from the MagpieRSS-upgrade/ directory in the FeedWordPress archive, to the wp-includes directory of your WordPress installation. This will replace the buggy, old version of MagpieRSS that ships with WordPress, with a newer version in which this bug is fixed.

    Steve,

    A few of my feeds have query strings in them that were being ignored.

    [...]

    Somewhere the ampersands are being converted and breaking the feed :(

    The problem you encountered is due to a bug in WordPress 2.x. The latest release of FeedWordPress, 0.992, corrects for the bug and should solve your problem.
36. daveand5 says:

    9 February 2008 at 4:05 pm

    ->Ricky How did you get autotag to work with FWP? I’m using simpletags and it consistantly misses on an erratic schedule, and need a consistant way to auto ad tags to FWP feeds posts
37. Niro says:

    28 February 2008 at 8:28 pm

    From your description of the problem it sounds like you need to install, or re-install, the optional MagpieRSS upgrade. In order to do so, copy the files rss.php and rss-functions.php from the MagpieRSS-upgrade/ directory in the FeedWordPress archive, to the wp-includes directory of your WordPress installation. This will replace the buggy, old version of MagpieRSS that ships with WordPress, with a newer version in which this bug is fixed.

    No, no! The optional MagpieRSS WAS installed. You didn’t get my explanation. The feed with embedded video syndicates without problems if I do it manually from FeedWordPress control panel. But it syndicates without video if FeedWordPress does it automatically using pseudo-cron. That is a problem.
38. Richy says:

    3 March 2008 at 7:49 am

    Well here’s what I did for the autotagging part

    Download the software from http://www.semiologic.com/software/publishing/autotag/

    Drop the extract-terms.php into the feedwordpress dir.

    Edit the feedwordpress.php

    • Do an include somewhere at the top include_once dirname(FILE). '/extract-terms.php';

    • Comment thecontent filters (I dont wrie my own posts, just feedwordpress posts) // addfilter('thecontent', 'feedwordpresspreservesyndicatedcontent', -10000); // addfilter('thecontent', 'feedwordpressrestoresyndicated_content', 10000);

    • add an action below the fwppublishposthook action addaction('publishpost', 'autotagentry');

    • add the autotag function below the fwppublishposthook function around line 1630 function autotagentry($postid) { $post = getpost($postid); $terms = getthepostterms($post);

          if ( $terms )
          {
              $tags = '';
      
              foreach ( $terms as $term )
              {
                  $tags .= ( $tags ? ', ' : '' ) . $term;
              }
      
              wp_set_post_tags($post_id, $tags, true);
          }
      

      }
39. Darren says:

    27 March 2008 at 12:44 am

    Thanks for a fantastic plug-in, Rad Geek! If I can get this problem I am having fixed, I am definitely planning to donate. I spent two weeks trying to make Joomla do what FeedWordPress did in 5 minutes.

    My problem is the same as Blogie and John Thompson’s. Occasionally I’ll need to edit the title, description, or category of a syndicated post. But when FeedWordPress checks the RSS again, all my changes are blown away. (Fortunately I’m not getting duplicate posts.)

    Any way to disable this, or give us an option to disable it?
40. Sonny says:

    9 April 2008 at 7:37 am

    Hi - I can’t get my feed(s) to update when I want them to anymore. Although I set FeedWordPress to check every minute for changes, it’s still scheduling them for a few hours away. The strangest thing though is that when I click ‘Update Selected Feeds’, it finds no new posts, even though the RSS file has updated, often numerous times. I’m taking the feeds from a Blogspot blog which publishes RSS to an offsite server.

    Thanks!
41. Esther says:

    17 April 2008 at 2:57 pm

    I use FeedWordPress to operate a blog portal that syndicates a few of the blogs from a WPMU installation — and I’m really happy with it!

    Recently, a user asked for the ability to embed media in posts and I’m testing Anarchy. The weird thing is that the syndicated feeds do not “grab” the media content. Posts made in the blog that acts as a portal work fine, but not ones that are being syndicated.

    For anyone that might have suggestions, here’s a link to my test site: http://sophia.smith.edu/betablog/