Duplication in Post Title or “null”

  • Resolved neo1664

    (@neo1664)


    4 years, 8 months ago

    I’m currently testing out this plugin to see if it is suitable for what I want, but having had it running over night, I’ve noticed that some post titles have either duplicated themselves, or have “null” at the end of them.

    I can see the list of Posts that this duplication or “null” is also present in the Post titles within the Admin backend, so I know that it’s the plugin that is pulling this info. Specifically, it seems to be when the feed has data within the <media:title> tags, and it is then appearing to post both the <title> and <media:title> data into the Title of the post.

    Can this be prevented anyway?

    Edit: This is also occurring where the <title> tag under <image> within the feed has data and it is adding the images <title> to the post title.

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  • Plugin Contributor cyberseo

    (@cyberseo)

    In order to help you, I have to reproduce this on my own test site. Please provide the URL of your feed along with a step-by-step instruction.

    Thread Starter neo1664

    (@neo1664)

    Hi! Thanks for the response. The RSS feed in question is; https://www.pcgamer.com/rss/

    I’ve attached a link to an image with the settings of the feed, and another showing how some of the titles are displaying in the Posts page;

    RSS Feed Settings

    Display of Post Titles

    Other than settings up the feed, and giving the settings shown, it is automatically doing the rest.

    Kind regards,

    Plugin Contributor cyberseo

    (@cyberseo)

    First of all, that feed really has all those “null” words. Here is a quote from https://www.pcgamer.com/rss/:

    <media:credit><![CDATA[Future]]></media:credit> <media:description><![CDATA[null]]></media:description> <media:title type=”plain”><![CDATA[AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT review]]></media:title>

    Also some items in the feed has 2 entries for the title. E.g.:

    <item>
    <title><![CDATA[ Gain ultimate power with this Persona 4 Golden Fusion guide ]]></title>
    <dc:content>
    …
    </dc:content>
    …
    <title><![CDATA[ persona 4 golden fusion guide ]]></title>
    …
    </item>

    Course CyberSEO merges them together. So there is no problem with CyberSEO. The feed itself is buggy, because the RSS generator was written by an incompetent person.

    Thread Starter neo1664

    (@neo1664)

    But that second <title> is within the <image> tag. Is there anything you can do to the plugin to be more specific on which <title> it retrieves?

    Plugin Contributor cyberseo

    (@cyberseo)

    The CyberSEO don’t check which item is outside. In any case, it’s not a good idea to do so. If someone wants to add some additional info to the XML section, he should use the XML attributes: https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_attributes.asp

    The is a standard and nothing I can do. Sorry.

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