• A few days ago, I accidentally published a post that I had wanted to schedule for publication on a specific day. I immediately realized that I had screwed up. Since it was for a specific promotion that couldn’t run early, I had to take the post down.

    I then scheduled the post for publication on the appropriate day. Unfortunately, I soon discovered that the RSS feed had already fired. I managed through this with a few readers, but fortunately it didn’t cause too much trouble.

    Today, the post went live. I was hoping that it the RSS feed would update as usual, notifying my subscribers of the new post. However, it didn’t fire. I assume that is because WordPress “thinks” the post was already published.

    How can I re-fire my RSS feed, so that this post is pushed to my readers?

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  • When I look at your RSS feed, I see the Andy Andrews Forgiveness Part 2 post as the latest article listed in the feed. What specific technology are you using to “push” the RSS feed to readers?

    Thread Starter michaelhyatt

    (@michaelhyatt)

    I am using Feedburner.

    Thread Starter michaelhyatt

    (@michaelhyatt)

    I guess I could just create a new post with the same permalink, trash the old post and then immediately publish the new one.

    However, I already several comments on the post, which I would lose. Maybe that’s not such a great idea.

    So are you asking how to get Feedburner to resend an email notification of the post going live? I think that’s what you’re asking.

    Anonymous User 757909

    (@anonymized-757909)

    you could “nuke” your RSS to force a re-sync manually.

    Thread Starter michaelhyatt

    (@michaelhyatt)

    No, I want an RSS feed of the post to show up in people’s RSS readers. It will also trigger FeedBlitz, which sends the email.

    Thread Starter michaelhyatt

    (@michaelhyatt)

    John, I did the manual resync on Feedburner about a half hour ago. However, that didn’t resend the latest post.

    Wouldn’t an updated name and or permalink, not a whole new post, trigger as a new or updated post for feedburner or feedblitz?

    Is FeedBlitz or FeedBurner providing the delivery of email notification to users? Either way, wouldn’t that email go out based on scheduled time in your settings? If it’s already passed for today, you would need to reset it for later today.

    Thread Starter michaelhyatt

    (@michaelhyatt)

    I am not sure if that would work. Also, if I change my permalink, it would render my Twitter post with the original link obsolete. I don’t think that just changing the title would fire the RSS, but I will investigate.

    Thread Starter michaelhyatt

    (@michaelhyatt)

    Where is the delivery time configured? I can’t find that.

    The post went up at 4:00 am CDT today, which is the same time it always happens. Usually, my RSS fires immediately.

    I definitely see the article when I look at your feed. It’s there. ?? So your saying that FeedBurner fires off it’s email notification at the same time? Or within a few moments?
    I know for my feed, it’s set to deliver between 7-9am.

    Take a look at this pic. https://grab.by/5f1s Publicize>Email Subscriptions>Delivery Options

    That’s where the delivery window is set. For FeedBurner. If it’s actually Feedblitz, I’d have to take a look at a Feedblitz account. Haven’t used them yet.

    Thread Starter michaelhyatt

    (@michaelhyatt)

    I am not using Feedburner’s email option. It is not activated, so I don’t have the delivery option.

    Here’s the sequence:

    1. I publish a new post.
    2. That triggers WordPress’s RSS module, which (I assume) pings Feedburner.
    3. Feedburner pushes the new post to my RSS subscribers.
    4. It also pings FeedBlitz.
    5. FeedBlitz pushes the new post to my email subscribers.

    So the question is how do I get either the WordPress module to re-ping Feedburner or Feedburner to send out the most recent post.

    Does that make sense?

    Sorry. I think I’m missing something. When I look at your Feedburner feed, I see this:
    https://grab.by/5f2o
    That shows this morning’s post. Feedburner has published the post correctly. If you’re not using Feedburner to send email updates of your feed, then there is nothing else for Feedburner to do with your post. I’m unaware of any other update or notification that Feedburner gives, other than email, which you say is being handled by FeedBlitz.

    I really am trying to help, but now I feel like I’m making it worse. Definitely not my intent.

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