[Plugin: FeedWordPress] Feed import UNPUBLISHES previously published posts

  • First of all, Charles, if you’re reading this: thanks for writing the FeedWordPress plugin. I know that writing a free WP plugin can be a thankless task– but I really do want to compliment you on your great work in creating this.

    The problem that I’m having is this:

    I have my feeds set up to import and be saved as Drafts (so that I can tweak them before they’re published.) But, what happens is, if I have previously imported and then Published an item — and then if the original source item is edited on the original source site — then the next time I import the feed, the item that *I* published gets OVERWRITTEN and set back to “Unpublished.”

    Granted, I can use WP revisions to manually go back and restore all posts that get Unpublished, but that can be a real pain to do every time feeds get imported.

    I don’t think FeedWordPress should Unpublish entries if they were previously Published– I’d MUCH rather get “duplicate” Draft posts added when the original source gets revisions, rather than overwriting anything I’ve already done on my end.

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  • Catbird, did you find a solution for this? I am having the same issue.

    Thanks

    I’m not sure if this will work yet, but I have faith.

    This problem was ultra annoying to our blog so I had to dig in the code of the plugin.

    At some point it checks the freshness, I removed the call that updated the post.

    Find this line:
    elseif (!$this->filtered() and $freshness == 1) :

    And under it, just remove everything it does. I’ve added:
    $ret = false;

    But I guess that’s unecessary. Hell I could’ve completely deleted the condition.

    Hope it helps.

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