RSS display

  • Hi,

    I want to create a page with up to date news using a couple dozen RSS feeds, and was hoping to use link library.

    Testing the RSS display I noticed that the time displayed with RSS feeds are converted to UTC, instead of local time. My WP general options show the correct timezone, UTC, local time and DST.

    And the feeds do not display the correct datetime format despite correct setup in WP options and in LL general options. Also the weekday is displayed in english regardless of WP language.

    Also, the feeds only update once a day. For my use case I’d need to set each link rss update seperately, with a refresh between 5 minutes and several hours (check last update on demand, cronjob not needed per se).

    I also realise too many requests may cause problems, so I looked for alternatives like proxy servers and other paid services. Did not really dig into other WP plugins yet, but I found some jquery plugins which use google feeds api (deprecated) and yahoo yql, which works very well.

    The only concern is yahoo usage limits with many feeds and many visitors, as its not clear if they will use visitor IP or host IP/referer when calling their API from the front end. Is there any way to allow LL to extract the rss data from a link like this?

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/link-library/

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  • Thread Starter yezzz

    (@yezzz)

    One more request. I found that when updating a feed all the content that was there is removed, even if it is within the “Max number of days since published” and the “Number of RSS articles shown in Link Library Output” criteria. Is it possible to keep the content, and purge articles when they are too old and/or too many articles are stored.

    Plugin Author Yannick Lefebvre

    (@jackdewey)

    Sorry for the long time before replying.

    I have done some changes to link Library to address the issues about date formatting and translation of the day of the week. I also added an option under General options to allow you to set the cache duration time for feeds. It was previously hardcoded to 12 hours.

    No, Link Library cannot read YQL data.

    For the timezone issue, I am investigating but have not found a way to do this yet.

    Thread Starter yezzz

    (@yezzz)

    Thank you for updating, however now I’m not seeing any time at all. Or am I missing a setting somewhere?

    As for the timezone issue, it seems to me there are 4 ways a time can be displayed.

    1. use the local time of the publisher
    2. convert to UTC
    3. convert to the timezone of the webserver/WP
    4. convert to the timezone of the visitor (may be the same as #3)

    Looks like Link library was doing #2. It may be hard to do #3/#4. To do #1 just use the time in the XML source and ignore the UTC offset. Correct? Perhaps that’s easy to implement.

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