[Plugin: RSS Footer] Duplicate information is being written to my RSS feed

  • I’ve got this plugin implemented and it’s writing the content I want but it’s writing it twice.

    Here’s my RSS link:
    https://feeds.feedburner.com/Sellingyourscreenplay

    You’ll notice that this bit is written once at the top and once with the actual post content. And the second time all the HTML is stripped out of it:
    Read ‘Selling Your Screenplay is now on Facebook’ at https://www.SellingYourScreenplay.com.

    My settings are as follows.
    Here’s what’s in the textarea:

    <strong>Read '%%POSTLINK%%' at <a href="https://www.sellingyourscreenplay.com">https://www.SellingYourScreenplay.com</a>.</strong>

    And I have the content position set to “before”.

    Any idea why it’s writing it twice?

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  • Thread Starter asmeyers

    (@asmeyers)

    Here’s the code in my textarea. It looks like it got cut off in my original message.

    <strong>Read '%%POSTLINK%%' at <a href="https://www.sellingyourscreenplay.com">https://www.SellingYourScreenplay.com</a>.</strong>
    Thread Starter asmeyers

    (@asmeyers)

    One thing I just noticed, my RSS is set to only show the “summary” and the problem goes away when I set it to show the whole post in the RSS feed. So it’s something to do with that – it duplicates the RSS footer when it’s set to “before” and your RSS is set to “summary only.”

    I know this is a hack but I don’t have time at the moment to dig in any deeper right now. I put this code in the rss-footer.php file on line 151:

    $temp_remove = strip_tags($rssfootcontent);
$content = str_replace($temp_remove,"",$content);

    Which version of the plugin are you using?

    LAffaire

    (@laffaire)

    I have the same problem.

    WP 2.9.1
    RSS Footer 0.9.6
    Set to “Content position: before”

    Looking at the XML source of the generated feed, in the <description> field, I see the RSS footer line once fully linked followed by a line break, then once more with links stripped out, then my actual content without line break.

    I noticed people have complained about this in multiple posts here as far back as half a year ago. Are you planning to address this or should I look for an alternative solution?

    LAffaire

    (@laffaire)

    BTW, a closer look shows that the line break mentioned above comes from the first, linked instance of the RSS-Footer text being wrapped in:
    &​lt;p&​gt; ... &​lt;/p&​gt;
    which of course evaluates to HTML p tags. The second, unlinked instance is just part of the first regular paragraph.

    LAffaire

    (@laffaire)

    I changed my blog now to have full content feeds and now I find that the <description> section still has the duplicated RSS Footer text, but the <content> section doesn’t.

    As a result, my feed looks fine in readers that show full content, but quite silly in readers that only show the <description> excerpt, e.g. MyBlogLog. In the latter, RSS Footer now takes over 2/3 of the displayed text.

    I can’t work like that. Since the author doesn’t respond, I’ll delete RSS Footer. Found this one: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/copyfeed/ A bit more complex, but at least it works.

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