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You are correct, the filters are applied to all feeds at this time. I intend to implement per-feed based filters that are defined on the page like this [sp# feedname filters] in the next major release. Is this what you are looking for?

Hi, you can set the description (name) of the feed, but not of the feed items. The feed items and their content are provided by the feed publisher. If you were to change a feed item headline, it may violate the publishers terms of use and their copyright of their feed content. I do not anticipate enabling this type of feature in SP out of respect for publishers rights to their work.

Regarding approving items prior to display… SP operates in real time. Feed items are not stored in your WordPress site as posts, rather they are stored internally to the SP plugn and only shown if the feed publisher is sending the feed item. Also note that a feed item may be filtered out if you are using SP filters. If you don’t want feed items shown that have certain words in them, then I recommend using the exclusive filter.

ok, thanks for the feedback. I’ll get that screenshot updated. ??

Hi nikco,
you need to put a PIPE ‘|’ character in between the name and the URL.

It should look like this:

aimee|https://www.aimeefuller.co.uk/feed/rss/

Skayser,
that’s a great idea. Thanks for sharing. I will look into integrating this into the next major release.

Hi Nik,
please provide the feed URL and EXACT line you are putting into the feed text area.

Thanks.

Thanks for the links.

Deeper investigation shows that your server is returning a 301 Permanent Move message for the feed URL. The feed down-loader in Syndicate Press does not currently handle redirect following. This also explains why the browser followed the redirect, but the SP feed down-loader did not.

Here is the header returned by your server:
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 04:14:01 GMT Server: Apache X-Pingback: https://salamiandeggs.com/xmlrpc.php ETag: “697b18753ce3834e94a6d8633a339bc9” Last-Modified: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:18:37 GMT Location: https://salamiandeggs.com/feed/ Content-Length: 0 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html

Over the several years of SP being out in the public release, your sites are the first I have encountered using permanent move of the rss feed. I will look into supporting redirect following in Syndicate Press for a future release.

As a side note, a whois query shows that bobschecter.com is being hosted on godaddy servers. I did a quick google search for “godaddy wordpress 301 redirect rss” and found lots of responses about weird 301 redirects with godaddy hosting. Not to say there is anything wrong with that, but it is curious. I still hope to enable 301 redirect handling in SP, but this at least provides a root cause to the issue.

It appears that the Syndicate Press download client is unable to download the feed content from your feed URL. I can obtain the feed when using firefox. Do you have a .htaccess set on your server that blocks non-standard browser clients?

Thanks for providing the feed URL. I tried it and cannot get the content either. It has been quite a while since I have run into a feed that failed to parse. I’ll give a look and seen what is going on.

Please post one of the feed URL’s that you are trying to use.

It would also be helpful if you provided the exact text of the URL (and custom name) as you have defined it in the “List of RSS feeds…” text box.

What version of Syndicate Press are you using? You can find the version at the bottom of the admin page.

Hi Bob,
Syndicate Press is installed on several thousand blogs and has been working just fine for more than 2 years. It has gone through significant beta testing and is well vetted on numerous blogs and with many news servers.

Can you describe what problem you are having and perhaps we can figure out what your particular issue is?

Thanks

Hi,
all of the example links are direct links to the blog web pages, not to the feed URLs for the pages. The easiest way to check to see if a URL points to a feed is to put the URL into a browser and view it. If the URL shows a web page, it is not a feed URL. If the URL shows a news feed, then i is a valid feed URL.

To access the RSS feeds of those blogs, you need to add the following to each URL: feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

For example, the first one should b: https://marcfaberblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

If you put this into a browser and view it, you will see the feed content.

I found this info by doing a google search and came up with the following tutorial: https://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&topic=12501&answer=97933

Hi,
SP uses the links provided by the RSS/Atom/RDF feed publisher. These links typically point to the full article on the publishers website.

The feed publisher has every right to not have their full article displayed on someone else’s site. This is why most feed publishers only place an abstract or a small portion of their full article in a news feed and then provide a link back to the publishers site to view the full article. Most publishers want viewers on their site so that they can earn advertising revenue.

SP does not go out and download or store the full article for display on your site. SP provides feed syndication and aggregation functionality and does not attempt to re-purpose someone else’s copyrighted content onto your site. SP only displays what the publisher provides as their news feed.

It is up to the user to make sure they are adhering to a publishers licensing rules for their articles and feed content. Different publishers have different feed and content licensing rules. One should consult those rules prior to syndicating a feed.

Hi,
thanks for trying out Syndicate Press. To answer some of your comments:

– SP does not do any ordering of feed items. Rather, it takes the feed in the order presented by the RSS/News publisher (server) and presents the content in the same ordering. Items from a given feed will be presented on your WP page in the same order they are given in the RSS feed. Items from separate feeds are not mixed in together. Thus, if you hae 2 feeds (feed_1 & feed_2) in the bb-code tag on a page, you will have the items from feed_1 followed by the items from feed_2.

– Regarding the links going to the RSS feed of the blog rather than the full article. SP uses the link that the RSS/News feed publisher specifies as being the link for a given item in the RSS/News feed. If a RSS/News publisher sets their links to point back to the feed article, then this is what you will see when you click the link that SP provides. If the RSS/News publisher sets the item link so that it points to a full article, then the user will be directed to the full article. If the RSS/News publisher sets their links to point to another RSS feed, then your viewers will simply be directed to that RSS feed.
— Most WordPress blogs automatically set their default RSS feed links for their feed items to the Post that the item relates to. Other RSS/News publishers, such as Yahoo, have their RSS/News item links set to direct the viewer back to the main news article.
— Typically, publishers will use RSS/News feeds to let their followers know about an article. The RSS/News feed item will usually contain an excerpt or abstract of the article and link back to the main article. Most publishers don’t want to publish the full article content in an RSS/News item because the reader would then have no reason to click the article link and view the publishers full site, where the publisher is likely to have advertising.

I looked at the feed you are syndicating at https://www.squamishspeaks.ca/candidate-blogs/. The item URL for the first feed item is https://www.buildtomorrow.ca/feeds/674310474031439538/comments/default. This is link that the https://www.buildtomorrow.ca server is providing. Examining the feed in Firefox and IE, it appears that you have put the https://www.buildtomorrow.ca COMMENT feed URL into Syndicate Press. Many blogs out there have different feed resources, some for articles and some for comments. You might check to see that you are pulling the right feed URL. If this is the feed URL that you intended to post, then that’s fine, but the URLs are the ones that the feed server is providing. SP is simply using the URLs provided by the feed server.

If you would like to see some examples of feeds on my testing page where I am pulling feeds from LOTS of different sites and feed server types (blogs, news, WP, blogger, etc…), check out https://henryranch.net/news/

Hi,
I just delivered the 2 changes to the plugin repository as version 1.0.2.

If you try to put in a URL with feed://, Syndicate Press will save it as https://. Syndicate Press places the article link on the … if the article is truncated by SP. Note that if the article length is truncated by the server and not by SP, you will not get the article link if you have SP configured to strip the HTML markup from the article.

The easiest way and fastest to verify if an rss/atom/rdf news URL is valid is to put it into a browser and try to load it. I use chrome and firefox for this because Internet Explorer tends to do it’s own thing…

Let me know how they work for you.