A few problems about not import or not importing content

  • Hi,
    I encountered some problems while importing some rss feeds that I’ve created programatically.

    First I couldn’t import all of items in rss. But it imported items of other rss feeds. After some research I’ve found a missing required element for every item. There should be guid element for importing all items in feed. This guid value must be unique.

    And the second problem was importing the description element’s value of items in rss feed. There was html content inside description tag and rss multi importer wasn’t publishing the content inside post, there was only a headline. So after a while, I’ve recognized in some other rss feeds, there was used <![CDATA[ <!– html –> ]]> notation inside description tag content. Then I used them and solved my problem.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/

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  • Plugin Author Allen

    (@amweiss98)

    regarding the description, all feeds have a description and content tag, so with the plugin I had to decide which of these tags to focus on…since the way RSS works is that the content tag has all the content while the description has an excerpt, I decided to import the content tag.

    The fundamental problem is that there is little standardization with RSS, so if you are bringing in the content fine from some feeds, and not others, my experience indicates the ones you aren’t bringing in aren’t consistent with RSS standards.

    As you noted, you can always go in to change the code to make it work for these non-standard feeds.

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