FeedWordPress 2009.0707: bug fix eliminates blank "Syndicated Sites" problem and fixes tagging widget

I just installed this and it strips all of the "<" and ">" from the tags. You can see it here - http://www.carefreetrip.com/blog/view/travel-warnings/

How do I correct this so the HTML displays correctly? Thank you.

When the plugin pulls a new syndication, it's putting it in the database without a date, is this normal? Is there a way to change it from the default 1969 date to today?

The following seems to indicate there already is some way to display excerpts instead of complete posts?

"As I have time to do so, I would also like to include some commonly-requested features, such as allowing users more control over how excerpts are generated"

However, I haven't found out how to do that. I'd like to set a maximum length for the syndicated posts at www.ryskmosaik.net, and also get rid of the irritating empty squares that some feeds generate at the end of posts. Is there any way of doing that?

I upgraded to this latest version, and now my feed doesn't add new posts at all. When attempting to manually update feeds, I no longer receive any status messages on which blogs were updated and how long it took. It's just blank.

My site has been stale and un-updated since I upgraded 22 hours ago.

I'm also still seeing syndicated feeds disappearing from the list on this domain - anything I add. The feeds still show in the normal Links view though. Also, it is not consistent - I have another site which is almost identical (theme, plugins...) except for keywords and that is working fine (except that the normal links also show in the Syndicated sites list). On both sites I uninstalled and reinstalled Feedwordpress because the original update did not fix the problem.

Another site built on a fresh installation of Wordpress with the latest version of Feedwordpress also seems to be OK with about 40 feeds.

updated and now the html brackets are being removed so the post comes garbled with the post and the html. You can view the site to get a better idea.

Hi. First of all, I am very impressed by your plugin. The options are amazing, it works like a charm.

However, I am having a little problem with a plugin named WP-PostRatings. As somebody already noted, they have some problems when working together.

The problem lies in a widget to show a list of hightest rated posts: every single post in this list points to the same URL (of a post grabbed via RSS).

When working without FeedWordpress, WP-postratings works great. When FeedWordpress is activated, the list gets messed up.

I am using Wordpress 2.8, FeedWordpress 2009.0707, WP-postratings 1.5, and, just for register, Atahualpa 3.4.1 as theme.

Any idea? Have any of you guys already seen this kind of problem?

Thanks a lot!

Very strange! Today my site which had refused to store a feed in the Syndicated sites list at least 10 times is now correctly retaining feeds. The only "change" I made was to enter the feed again, for a manual update, as I had been doing a few times each day.

The feed is from a google news search. I am wondering if they have changed something.

• Paul

I updated to new version, and when setting automatic updates all feeds in "Syndicated Sites" page dissappeared! they are gone. I tried setting updates back to manual "only when I request", but the feed list didn't come back, it seems lost for ever, really anoying.

I am still using wordpress MU 2.7.1, would upgrading help solving this issue?

Thanks for this great plugin

Since upgrading to WordPress MU 2.8.1, I'm getting the following error every time I try to add a feed to FeedWordPress:

Diagnostic information HTTP request completed

Status 0: HTTP Transports available:

1. WPHttpCurl

Any ideas? Is the plugin compatible with MU 2.8.1?

I think I found something relevant to the problem of feeds disappearing from the Syndicated sites view - in the "normal" Links / Edit I unchecked the "Keep this link private" box and the feed reappeared in the Syndicated sites list.

Also I have seen Ted's error a few times - in some cases it can be fixed by manually replacing "feed://" with "http://"

Also upgrading Wordpress downgrades Magpie. I'm not sure if this Magpie downgrade / re-upgrade is part of the problem, but my 2 fresh installs of WP 2.8.1 and FWP 2009.0707 are behaving better than my 2 older sites upgraded to these versions.

Best.

• Paul

I am running 2009.0707 at http://www.seriouslysoccer.com. I set FeedWordPress up to retain links to the original and within feeds to point to seriouslysoccer. The first (manual) pull does exactly as it should. Subsequent automated pulls of the feeds do not use the syndicated permalink, they use the seriouslysoccer link. When I manually add the syndicated permalink to the template it comes up blank.

I am running 6 sites (seriouslysoccer.com; seriouslywine.com; seriouslyruby.com; seriouslygolf.com; seriouslymedia.com and seriouslymac.com). All 6 display the same behavior.

Some of the site publishers are starting to be upset with my linking internally (understandably) but I can't find the problem.

Help???

Best Keith Teare

Since upgrade no posts are published, manual or automatic, It just does not work any more, but it gives no error:

"...completed in 0 seconds"

"Update complete. 0 new posts were syndicated and 0 existing posts were updated"

I even tried downgrading to previous version (2008.1214), which was working fine before the upgrade, but now it doesn't work either. What else can I do to make it work again?

One other problem I'm having: When I go to http://injersey.com/wp-admin/feedwordpress/syndication-options.php I get a 500 internal server errror.

Every time I try to add a feed, it gives me the same error:

Feed Finder: http://blogs.mycentraljersey.com/flemington/feed/

Error: FeedWordPress couldn't find any feeds at http://blogs.mycentraljersey.com/flemington/feed/. Try another URL. Diagnostic information HTTP request failure

connect() timed out! HTTP Transports available:

1. WPHttpCurl

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That feed above is a good and valid feed. No idea what the problem is.

How to disable automatic posting to main page in FeedWordpress

I have installed and am testing FeedWordPress and so far it really has worked brilliantly. I have configured multiple RSS feeds and they both publish to their respective categories as desired.

The one function I would like to change is the automatic posting to the main page. Both of the feeds in testing post to their categories AND to the main page.

I would like to exclude incoming RSS feeds from posting to the main page. Thanks!

If the < and > are being stripped get this plugin 'LibXML2 Fix'

I'm hoping someone can help me out with a couple of things with this plugin. It would be very appreciated.

1. I'd like to have a "tag" for each feed that will display a message like "This content courtesy of abc.com."

2. I'm using a magazine theme with excerpts on the front page with a thumbnail image. Is there a way to pull a random thumbnail image for each feed source?

I would assume custom fields would be used for these things but I'm clueless on how to implement that.

Can someone help a girl out? Thanks!

I tried changing http:// to feed:// and using the LibXML2 Fix plugin. No dice. Any other suggestions. Are other WPMU users using 2.8.1 having this same issue of not being able to add new feeds?

Hello. I'm getting an error with my RSS feed when validating: "This page contains the following errors: error on line 23 at column 48: EntityRef: expecting ';'". Is this a problem with FeedWordPress posts--it seems to be occurring on two of my sites with FeedWordPress installed? I'm using "?feed=rss2" to access the RSS--is there a file or location where I can use htmlentities() to escape the RSS content? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

-Dave

The syndicated sites view has no sites listed still in this latest build has this been resolved? Can anyone tell me the table names that i could potentailly remove and start a completly fresh install. Also tried the development build with the same issue.

I upgraded last night on two sites and on both sites the feeds disappeared.

'LibXML2 Fix' does not fix missing <>& for me. It patches class-IXR.php and rss.php per http://blog.hoofoo.net/2009/01/14/wordpress-patch-for-problamatic-libxml...

Do we need to apply similar patch to feedwordpress/MagpieRSS-upgrade/rss.php?

Thoughts? TIA

Double content if hash is chnaged, link news chnaged but content no ! i change function update_hash: return md5(serialize(strip_tags($this->item)));

i use strip_tags to remove all "junk"!

emty content for some news ...

after:

$this->post['post_content'] = apply_filters('syndicated_item_content', $content, $this);

i use this code:

if (strip_tags($this->post['post_content']) == "" ) {
   $this->post['post_content'] = $this->post['post_title'];
}

auto tag from title; i filtered all words with 1 or 2 chars and another 100 words like "far", "for", "and", "too", "not", "the", "take", "down", "over", "from", "are", "why", "may", "this" ... etc ! and i add tags/keywords from titles ! (option can be in Config!) ... code is easy!

double content from difrent sindication source ... or else issue ?!!!

after this line:

  $guid = $wpdb->escape($this->guid());

i use this code:

$this_syndication_permalink = $this->post['meta']['syndication_permalink'];
$result1 = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE ( meta_key = 'syndication_permalink' AND meta_value LIKE '%$this_syndication_permalink%' ) LIMIT 0 , 30");
if ($result1) :
    $this->_freshness = 0; 
    $this->_wp_id = $result1->post_id;
    return $this->_freshness;
endif;

i d'nt know if all my change is ok but is working for me (until now) !

I want to send pingbacks to all FeedWordPress generated posts. How do I do this? Anyone know how to send pingbacks using FeedWordPress?

all work good but i don't understand how work the automatic update system, it show update each 60min (where can i change this???) but at this moment it don't update anything.

i see that the bloog that i feed it have new post.. i wait for the automatic update and nothing.. i click on manual update and nothing..

what happen?

how can i change the time from an update at another? it show me 60min, i want change it but can't find the option to di it.

another problem: why in my syndacate list it show me:

51 minuti ago
Ready for next update every 60 minutes
33 minuti ago
Ready for next update 2 minuti from now

why 1 feed is update each 60min and another a random time..

(and again, thank you for this amazingly useful plugin)

I am using your plugin for many tens of feeds. And I get two errors when updating the syndications with the new release: 1)Updating some URL blogs from <some URL/feed> ... Warning: gzinflate() [function.gzinflate]: data error in /some URL/wp-includes/http.php on line 1787

Warning: Illegal offset type in /some URL/wp-includes/rss.php on line 1458

2) the updating is stopped with this error massage: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 489695 bytes) in /some URL/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 450

I hope these problems will be fixed in future releases.

p.s: consider adding "subscribe to comments" to your blog.

Cheers, Tal

As with all versions since .99 I find it impossible to add new feeds, even on clean install, with the Magpie upgrade, etc. Nothing I can do will let me add new feeds. Really frustrating.

Dave

I am trying to set up an autoblog using eBay feeds which turn each feed item into a post. I am unable to get any items to post. I'm not receiving an error, but I am receiving the following verbage when updating:

" * completed in 1 second

Update complete. 0 new posts were syndicated and 0 existing posts were updated"

There are items in the feed and I have tested another feed on the site witch was able to create a post. I have searched high and low for the last 5 hours trying to find a fix for this and I have come up with nothing.

Unfortunately, if I can't find an answer soon, I'll have to find a different solution for the time being until this is resolved as my time is limited for this project.

I almost forgot, this is a fresh install of 2.8.2 and the newest version of the feedwordpress plugin.

Thank you in advance for any insights anyone can offer.

Warning: Illegal offset type in /some URL/wp-includes/rss.php on line 1458 - latest version of WP/php5

We've installed 2009.0707 FeedWordPress on WPMU 2.8.2 and all the plugin configuration pages are coming up blank. I'll file a bug, but was hoping someone might have a quick answer :)

I have a fresh install of WordPress 2.8.2. I have only added a simple theme and one other plugin. When I activated FeedWordPress it informed me that Magpie was out of date, so I let it upgrade it. Then I added a xml feed and I got the following error:

Warning: gzinflate() [function.gzinflate]: data error in /home7/prjctfrd/public_html/polls/wp-includes/http.php on line 1787

It looks like others are having this problem as well.

Getting the error code:

Warning: Illegal offset type in /home/account/public_html/foldername/wp-includes/rss.php on line 1459

Offending code section claims to be a fix to said error and is present in the latest magpie updated from FeedWordpress. Otherwise, everything runs just fine! Any advice? Thanks for your work.

How can I strip html from the syndicated feeds?

In the future release it would be killer if you could set specific items / code to strip from specific feeds on a case by case basis. But for now I'd settle for the knowledge on how to strip in full.

Hi, thanks for this plugin. Working great! Only one thing I would like to know from you. Is it possible to save the images or other media from the feed to my own server, like to the wp-content/upload folder? Is it possible by using some custom fields for each feed depending on its image save path?

Hello, when I try to check for updates from a feed I get this error

Warning: Parameter 1 to syndicated_item_overrides() expected to be a reference, value given in /var/www/mysite/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 166

I use wp 2.8 with feedwordpress 2009.0803

how can I solve?

Hi,

I have installed the plugin and currently successfully pulling news from 3 different RSS feeds. Great! really impressed by this app. All articles are created and listed in a Category page available from the main menu on my home page. No problem.

Now I would like to show the same list in a widgetised area of my home page. So, forgive me for my lack of PHP knowledge, but what code should I add in my home.php file between:

<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('NpAdv_Widget1_OD_NM') ) : ?> which I created in my function.php file, and the <?php endif; ?> statement?

I couldn't find any options in the plugin WP admin interface to widgetise the plugin, and I also didn't find any threads covering this; but then again, I am a newbbie in need of help. I am a bit at a loss and some pointers would be much appreciated.

Many thanks,

Cheers,

O

Every week or so, one of my FeedWordPress-drive aggregators starts throwing 500s. Every WordPress-driven page on the site does this, whether it's a public page or anything in the wp-admin hierarchy. The fix for this is relatively simple (though it required hours of laborious debugging to discover this): delete every option_name in wp_options that begins with "rss_".

From what I can gather, the purpose of those entries is to cache Magpie's output, so all that this is doing is clearing the cache. Now that I know to do this, I have a method of fixing this when it breaks. But, of course, it's awfully inconvenient to have to keep an eye on this site and have to fix it periodically; one must take vacations and live life away from the computer periodically, after all. I'm tempted to set up a cron job to just perform this cache-clearing every so often, but there's always the question when doing this sort of thing of how often it's necessary to perform this action, and whether the frequency of that job is really the length of time that one is prepared for one's site to be down.

Has anybody else encountered this? I'd be curious to know whether there's a simple explanation or fix for this problem, or if this is just going to remain a quirk of FeedWordPress/Magpie that I'll just have to tolerate.

To deal with the problem of wp_options filling up, I've come up with a ghastly hack that I mention here in case it's useful to others. I set up a cron job that fires every ten minutes. It uses curl to grab the front page of my blog. If the byte count is the same as the server's 500 error page, then it deletes every row from wp_options where option_name like 'rss_%'. Problem solved.

Like I said: ghastly. But it allows me to step away from my computer for more than 24 hours without my sites going down.

I've still never seen a response from the author about the < and > characters being stripped out of syndicated posts. It does not happen on all RSS feeds, only some, but I need a fix for this urgently.

I have an odd issue. One of the feeds I use duplicates their GUID, and this results in multiple posts being treated as one. Each one updates the previous, so I end up with only the content of the last post. Is there a way I can bypass this so that each of their posts ends up as one post on my blog? I've notified them, but they don't understand what I'm trying to point out.

Joelle, I'm afraid that how to set up a cron job is perhaps a bit more technical than I'm prepared to explain here. Suffice it to say, a cron job refers to a program that performs a task on a repeating schedule. It involves mucking around on the Unix command line, although your website host may provide a clever web-based interface to do this. In the instant case, it's running a command-line browser to load that URL. I'm dimly aware of some websites that will do this for you (here's one).

I've got an exciting new problem. With every update of the feeds, my server kills the process after it spins out of control, using more than 100MB of memory. Often it's updated just one feed when this happens. I haven't figured out the cause yet, but I figure it's worth calling up.

I can only access the syndication page, every other page says insufficient privileges. No other plugins are activated