SP developer

Hi Miz.Michele,
the current implementation of Syndicate Press does not support the no-index tag, but this is a great idea for a future version. I will put it on the list. I am also thinking that supporting a no-follow tag would be good for SEO reasons also. Thanks for the suggestion!!! ??

Regarding merging all of the feeds into one…
Yes, this can be done by using the feedlist to indicate that you want to show all feeds on the page/post/widget. Then, you would want to set the following settings:

On the “Display Settings” tab:
Processing and feed metrics: Do not show
Feed name (title): Do not show
Syndicate Press link: Do not show…

On the “Custom Formatting” tab:
Custom feed separation code: Remove the default separator line

Hope this helps,
SP Developer

hmmm… weird, ok, glad you got it going. ??

There will be a Link under the Settings tab called “Syndicate Press”. Make sure that the plugin is Activated on the plugin page.

The only time I have ever seen the plugin not show up under the WP Settings tab is when it is not activated.

Hi,
you need to put a shortcode into the page where you want the feed content to be displayed. Here is an example which will show the https://www.spd-rathausmuenchen.de/feed.rss feed:

[sp# feedList=spd]

To show all the feeds, simply use this shortcode in your page:

[sp# all]

or

[sp# feedlist=all]

For more details, see the “Help” tab of the Syndicate Press plugin admin page.

Best Regards,
SP developer.

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Hi Christian,
regarding your questions:

1. If the text of the article is truncated (cut off due to a character limitation, then SP will insert an elipses ‘…’ with a link to the article.
– I could add an option to always include a readmore link at the end of the article, but there is already a link to the article… the article title links directly to the article.

2. This is a good idea. Currently, the timestamp cannot be customized from the plugin administration page. This is a good idea and I have added it to the todo list. ?? I will likely include this in the next release of SP.

Thanks,
Have a great day!

Hi CivitanovaSC,
I just tried out your feeds and they all worked except for this one:

https://feeds.feedburner.com/viverecivitanova
If you put that URL into the google chrome browser, chrome shows the feed has the following error: “error on line 41 at column 22: xmlParseEntityRef: no name.” This is a problem with the feed formatting.

Regarding the other feeds, they worked on my server. You might try clearing your input and output caches and then updating your settings again.

Have you been able to connect to any feeds? If not, then your server might have php client sockets turned off. You can try my site feed here: https://henryranch.net/feed/ as a test.

Another possibility is that the feed server can sometimes stop serving a client if the client IP hits the server too often. I believe that yahoo rss feeds do this. This is the reason why SP has a 3600 second (1 hour) timeout for a feed so that SP will only request a feed if the cache for that feed is older than an hour.

If you are still having problems, you can send me a message via the address in the help tab of the SP plugin.

Hi MrBoehler2,
I think that I have found a way to do this for you. It is based on creating an RSS feed URL for a specific wordpress blog that includes tags for that blog.

Here is a very good article on how to do this: https://thedeadone.net/blog/wordpress-tip-get-an-rss-feed-from-a-tag-and-from-a-search/

Once you have created the RSS feed URL that pulls the correct articles from a blog based on the tags for that blog, you can then place the Feed URL into the Syndicate Press plugin and SP will treat it as a normal feed. ??

Let me know how it works out for you.

Have a great day!

Hi Atlanta,
I looked at the problematic google alert feed again today and it works.

Here is a link showing it working in one of my test sites: https://codelikeapirateday.com/news/sp-test-google-fashion-feed/

In the Feed URL tab I set the feed url as:
GoogleFashion|https://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/04661213680440914985/336730953582831493

On the page where I am showing the feed, I set the tag as:
[sp# GoogleFashion]

Some news feed servers will disable a client from receiving a feed if it is accessed too frequently within a given time period. Perhaps this is why we saw the feed not being returned a few weeks ago?

Anyway, give it another try and let me know what happens.

Have a great day!

Hi Atlanta,
I reproduced the failure with the second feed https://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/04661213680440914985/336730953582831493.

It does not work on my test system either. I’ll take a look and see if we can work up a solution.

Have a great day!

Hi,
Thanks for your feedback! Syndicate Press does not currently support https protocol.

You can access the feed via the non-secure http protocol with this URL: https://news.google.com/news/search?hl=en&gl=us&q=Luxury+Fashion&output=rss

I’ll add notification for this in the next release.

Best Regards.

Here’s an idea…

In the SP Admin console, you can set the “Feed download mode” to “Use direct download. May not work on all web hosts.” This will use the php file_get_contents() function to get the feed URL. This might work with proxy configured on your server. Most web-hosts disable file_get_contents(), which is why SP has it’s own internal downloader.

You can find this setting on the SP Admin Cache tab.

Give it a try and see if it works. Remember to clear the input/output caches.

I have found some examples of using file_get_contents() with proxies and I will try to implement that tonight. If you send me your direct email I can send you the patched file for you to test.

You can send a direct support message to me: sp [at] henryranch.net.

Thanks.

Ok, thanks for the update. My guess is that it is a proxy issue. I’ll look for a quick solution, if one exists.

Thanks again!

Another note, I think you may be the first person that I have heard of who is trying to run SP from behind a proxy. I have never tried it as I don’t have that configuration available. This is a good test case, thank you for taking the time to help out. ??

You might need to clear the feed caches. Do this by pushing the “Clear input feed cache” and “Clear output feed cache” buttons on the SP admin page.

Let me know how it goes.