RSS feed empty while ical has events

  • We are using the Events Manager for quite a while, including the iCalendar data, and want to make use of the RSS feed now.

    While {basic web site URL}/events.ics creates an iCalendar file successfully the URL {basic web site URL}/events/feed shows an RSS channel but without any items. The lastBuildDate shows Sun, 03 Apr 2022 14:23:10 +0000 – quite up to date.

    This Events Manager documentation page https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/event-ical-feeds/ tells “You have one main ical feed, which is the equivalent to your RSS feed in ical format.”. From this I conclude: first is the RSS feed filled, then the data are converted to iCal.

    Where have all the RSS items (= events) gone in the RSS feed output?

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  • Plugin Support angelo_nwl

    (@angelo_nwl)

    Did you already tried the RSS scope option under Events > Settings > Formatting > RSS > RSS Scope?

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by angelo_nwl.
    Thread Starter mwsat

    (@mwsat)

    The RSS Scope was set to “Future events”, now I’ve changed it to “All events” but still no item in the feed.

    Strange is also the unchanged lastBuildDate Sun, 03 Apr 2022 14:23:10 +0000. We have changed events since then. Other properties of the RSS channel tell that a 1 hourly frequency for updates is set – this is not executed apparently.

    What software is triggering this build: native WordPress or the Events Manager plugin?

    Thread Starter mwsat

    (@mwsat)

    I found the solution: the used URL did not work, there is one which works.

    In the Events Managers plugin Settings -> Pages -> Events the basic path to the pages AND apparently also the feed is set, and the setting was “termin”, therefore {basic web site URL}/termin/feed works well.

    A note on that: for iCal date all of these URLs work well on my site:

    • {basic web site URL}/events.ics
    • {basic web site URL}/events/events.ics
    • {basic web site URL}/termin/events.ics

    As I noted in my first post the documentation page about the use of iCal sounds like you can do the same for RSS, only events.ics has to be replaced by feed.

    Please clarify this in the documentation.
    Thanks!

    Plugin Support angelo_nwl

    (@angelo_nwl)

    Hi,

    Thank you for the details, I will re-test this one and inform the Devs if needed.

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