Google Feed API and recurring events

  • Resolved cwarrenbu

    (@cwarrenbu)


    10 years, 11 months ago

    Hi,

    We’re using RSS feeds from event category pages generated by the plugin to populate content in a static html page on a separate non-wordpress, via Google’s Feed API.

    We have several recurring events set up, for example Creative Tuesday happens every Tuesday until May. In the raw feed from wordpress, each occurrence is a separate item, which is how we want it. So at the moment, there are four instances of Creative Tuesday in the feed. The event is set up as one recurring event in wordpress, not four individual events.

    When the data is parsed by Google, something happens so that only the next individual occurrence of Creative Tuesday is listed in the output; all subsequent occurrences aren’t displayed. So it only displays next Tuesday’s occurrence and not the following three weeks as well.

    Can anyone explain why this happening? Presume it’s more a Google thing than a plugin thing but any insight would be much appreciated.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/event-organiser/

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  • Plugin Author Stephen Harris

    (@stephenharris)

    RSS is designed for posts rather than events. Also different dates of the same event share the same post title, publication date and ID, and so presumably the method by which Google is differentiating items in the feed (probably ID) means that it can’t ‘see’ the difference between two dates of the same event.

    iCal feeds are much more suited for events.

    Thread Starter cwarrenbu

    (@cwarrenbu)

    Ah okay, that makes sense. I will investigate iCal. I inherited all the code from an ex-colleague who set up everything with RSS and I’m really not au fait with the technicalities of syndicating content! Thanks for your help, much appreciated.

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