Only works in test mode

  • Greetings,
    I have a strange problem with the plugin. It appears that it is only updating when I use the test/update mode. I have a Cron set up and that works fine. I can see the call made to the url supplied in the settings page but no updating.

    Did I miss something when I setup the pipe?. I have been chasing this issue for a couple of days and I am all out of ideas?. Can someone help me out.

    Thanks.

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  • Thread Starter samster1

    (@samster1)

    UPDATE – I overlooked something and I *think* I may have resolved this problem. I overlooked the ‘Do you want to run update method via cronjob?’ option. Maybe that will fix the cron problem, That brings me to other problem.

    The pipe seems not to be updating. What I mean is, The RSS feed I am pulling from has posts that go back months. For some reason, in test/update mode, the pipe is only pulling the same five posts that were made over a month ago. It is not pulling anything from today back. It keeps importing the same five posts that are a month old. At first I thought it was the originating site’s RSS feed. I ruled that out because I am using the ‘out of the box’ RSS feed widget, and it updates daily. That leads me to believe the originating sites RSS is correct. I did clear the cashe thinking it was a cache problem. No luck. Bottom line, It is only pulling the same five posts from weeks ago and nothing since then.

    Any sugggestions on how I can get WpPipes to get caught up and continue to update daily?.
    Thanks in advance.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by samster1.
    • This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by samster1.
    Plugin Contributor Tung Pham

    (@phamtungpth)

    Hi samster1,

    Thank you for using our plugin!

    Please export your pipe and upload it to a share host then give me the download link!

    I will take overview it for more understanding your case!

    Best Regards!

    Thread Starter samster1

    (@samster1)

    Hi Tung Pham, Thank you for your reply. I spent last weekend tweeking things and I managed to get it to work sorta. I still have two issues that I am unable to resolve.

    Let me give you the backstory so you understand what I am using pipes for. I have a WP site that I make a single post to daily. I only post one item. No problem with that. I want to use Pipes to pull the daily post and import it into another site. Once the post has been posted in the second site, a Social Media auto poster will post the reciently imported post to social media. In manual mode it works fine except I have two issues I can’t figure out.

    First issue. In the settings, I have it set for
    1)”Yes, I want to run my Pipes in both manually and automatically methods.”
    2)”No, I will create a cronjob task myself to run the script”
    My hosting company helped me get the cron to work and I can see in Wordfence that the cron does execute but nothing imports. If I change that setting to- “Yes, I want to run my Pipes automatically when someone access my WordPress site.” It appears to work properly. The problem with that setting is that when someone access my site, Pipes will repost the last 10 posts. Then, the Social Media auto poster that will repost the same 10 posts. This can happen multiple times a day. Not good. This one I can’t seem to figure out. The cron runs but nothing happens.

    Second issue I cant figure out. How can I have a pipe only import the most current post?. Pipes is importing the last 10 posts when I want it to import and post the mose recient item and not the last 10. Is that something I can change… Somehow?.

    Does this make sense of what I am attempting to acomplish?
    Thank you so much for your help thus far.

    Thread Starter samster1

    (@samster1)

    Tung Pham, Here is the url to the pipe –
    https://scenicnewenglandphotography.com/TEMP/nep.pipe

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by samster1.
    • This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by samster1.
    Plugin Contributor Tung Pham

    (@phamtungpth)

    Hi,

    I tried to check your pipe but I can not access your feed https://www.newenglandphotography.net/rss/ –> I got this: https://www.screencast.com/t/PUUjZKYJAKP

    Maybe that is the reason of your issues!

    Best Regards!

    Thread Starter samster1

    (@samster1)

    Tung,
    I just tried that rss link and had no problems with it. I’m using that same rss feed on two other places without any problems either. Weird.

    Is there a way to adjust how many posts pipes will pull?. I only want it to pull the most recient/last post and not the last 10 posts?

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by samster1.
    Plugin Contributor Tung Pham

    (@phamtungpth)

    Hi,

    I tried many times but do not still access the feed

    About adjusting how many posts pipes will pull, you could try to use Limit Items option, refer this https://www.screencast.com/t/QqWK94tN

    Best Regards!

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