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Hi cjmusante,

I just upgraded my webserver yesterday, so that might be why you were seeing the hang on the save/update. The site was down almost all day. That would have affected the news tab. Give it another try. I just opened my Syndicate Press Admin page and the news tab popped right up without any delay.

I think that I figured out the issue with the redstack feed. If you put a ‘/’ character on the end of the feed, then it worked for me. Without the ending ‘/’ (forward slash) char, the feed failed. You can see the redstack feed at the bottom of my main news feed page: https://henryranch.net/news

I will fix this so that if a feed URL is missing the last ‘/’, it will add it. I will then add this change to the next release ASAP.

Thank you very much for reporting the issue and have a great day! Let me know if it still does not work for you.

Best Regards

The filtering works like this:

Exclusive filters:
If you have an article from a feed that contains the word ‘artichoke’ and you don’t like artichokes and don’t want any articles with the word ‘artichoke’ in them to be shown on your site, then you would add the word ‘artichoke’ to the exclusive filter keyword list. This would block any articles that have the word ‘artichoke’ in either the article title or the article text.

Inclusive filters:
If your site is all about beef and you only want to show articles that have the word ‘beef’ in them, then you would add the word ‘beef’ to your inclusive filter keyword list. This would block any articles that do not contain the word ‘beef’ in either the title or the article content.

The only way that SP could key off of tags that a feed publisher has set on their post/page is IF the RSS/Atom/RDF/XML news feed contains the tags for the articles. I’ll research this a bit for a future feature.

Ok, thanks. I understand now. Currently, the filters operate against the title and the article content of the feed item.

Your idea is interesting. Are you thinking that the tags/categories assigned to a page might also be used as filter keywords to apply against the feeds that are on that page (as defined by the SP bbcodes on that page)

Hi MrBoehler2,
I don’t really understand your question. Can you clarify what you mean by “tags”? Are you referring to the filtering tab or are you referring to the bbcode that is placed into a page/post/widget to show desired news feeds?

Regarding filters:
Currently, the filters for including and excluding feed items are based on the comma delimited list of words that are put into the filter boxes. Each comma separated word is treated as a separate filter. These filters shown in the syndicate-press admin page a global and are applied to all feeds that SP is managing. You can also add filters at the page/post/widget level by including them in the bbcode.

Regarding the page/post/widget feed listing:
To include one or more feeds into a page/post/widget, you put in a comma separated list of feednames or any unique keyword in the feed url.

Since you like the plugin, please be sure to vote. ??

Hi,
I just released version 1.0.11 which supports widgets.

Best regards ??

Hi, the two files you mentioned are part of the syndicate-press package. Delete the syndicate-press dir and you should be ok. You might need to use an ftp client if your server permissions are not correct.

I am curious about the problem you had. What version of wp are you using, what browser are you using and can you send a screenshot of the failure to sp-support at henryranch.net? We have not seen this problem before, so any more info you can provide would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Thanks for the feedback. I will put time limiting (and time ranges) of feed items on the upcoming feature list.

Hi,
I have found the issue and will be including the fix in the next release of Syndicate Press.

In the meantime, if you want to add the Syndicate Press feed directly to the sidebar of your theme, you can do that with php code as follows:

add a call to the following function in the php code of your themes sidebar where you want the feed to be shown:

sp_getFeedContent(“feedname”);

Hi, I will take a look at the widget issue this evening.

Best regards.

Hi Triplets33,
I just put your feed “TDOT|https://ww2.tdot.state.tn.us/tsw/GeoRSS/TDOTIncidentGeoRSS.xml” into SP and gave it a try. It is showing up just fine so it looks like the content is ok and .xml is supported just fine.

As a note, the the extension of the feed does not matter (i.e. .xml or .rss), but rather the encoded content of the feed is what is important.

Thanks for using Syndicate Press!!!

Hi,
this is a common issue with people using feedburner feeds as the feedburneer site makes it easy to confuse the real feed with the comment feed.

Syndicate Press does not redirect post or change the title url links to anything different than what the feed indicates. If the feed is published with it’s article url pointing to the comment feed, then that is what Syndicate Press will use. For more details, please see my post here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-syndicate-press-links-go-to-rss-and-not-blog-posts?replies=2

My suggestion for you is to search around on the feedburner site for the non-comment linked feed.

Hi,
Syndicate Press supports feeds that are in the RSS1.0, RSS2.0, ATOM and most standards-complient RDF feeds. I will need to take a look at these particular XML feeds to see what their specific formatting is. In the meantime, I would use the RSS feeds.

Hi shabdsangharsh,

For your first feed URL, when I open it in a browser, my browser is sent to the feedburner page and not the RSS news feed. Looking at the feedburner page, I found this RSS news link:
https://feeds.feedburner.com/CommunalismWatch?format=xml

Regarding the second link, I am wondering if that server is also doing a page-moved redirect which requires the client app to do a double request in order for the feed to be served. That host is being served off of TUCOWS hosting and I would not be surprised if they are doing the same thing as go-daddy is with the double request page-moved redirect trick.

I am working on a solution to that which allows SP to still get the feed content from those types of hosts.

Hi SteveEBoy,
thank you very much for posting back your solution! That will help significantly as I look into the issue.

As you mentioned, the feednames are supposed to allow free-form text entry, so I am curious to find out what is going on. Looks like I’ll be doing a bit of debugging. ??

Hi,
I just put the link that you provided into my Syndicate Press news page on my site and it comes up fine. Here is the link: https://henryranch.net/news/

Your rss search feed is the first feed.

I have noticed in the past that yahoo news feeds seem to be a little flaky. Sometimes they provide the feed content and sometimes they don’t.