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hi bertrand57,
I think I may have figured out the issue.

XML documents can have what is called a ‘namespace’, which is sort of like categorizing tags within a special category. In the case of your feed, the namespace is ‘pm’.

I can figure a way to support this namespace, but I want to do it in a generic manner that will support other custom namespaces.

I am hoping to have the solution to this in an upcoming release.

Thank you very much for the detailed description and for posting the XML.

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SP Developer

Hi ade11,
I am hoping to get this delivered this week in v1.0.25.

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SP Developer

Hi umchal,
This is on the list of future enhancements. Thank you for pointing out the issue.

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SP Developer

Hi bertrand57,
You mention that the ebay feed works fine, but your feed does not. The fastest approach might be to model your feed structure after the ebay feed structure.

If you still can’t get it to work, then you may send your feed url directly to us via the support email in the SP Admin help tab.

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SP Developer

Hi umchal,
Thanks for the note. We’ll take a look at this as time allows. Since most folks don’t run WP in debug mode, this is not a common issue for SP users.

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SP Developer

Hi Miz.Michele,
Try removing the H3 tags. They might be overriding the span settings. Or put the custom color style css into the H3 tag.

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SP Developer

Hi Miz.Michele,
glad you figured it out. Thanks for following up with you finding.

The [sp#] shortcode uses spaces to separate parameters, so the extra space in the feedlist messed it up.

I’ll add a new feature to an upcoming release that checks the shortcode params and throws a useful error message rather than the script line number.

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SP Developer

Hi hossnine,
The cdata setting is on the ‘Display Settings’ tab.

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SP Developer

Hi irishmark,
I have delivered the change to the WordPress plugin repository in version 1.0.24. You can now tell SP to strip out the CDATA tags from the feed XML which ought to allow SP to inlude the media tags.

Note that when I tested your feed, I received a malformed XML error regarding one of your embed tag. Your embed tag parameters are not properly formed with the “” quotes around the parameter values.

Here is the error I received when trying to open your feed in firefox.

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Line Number 145, Column 14:<p><embed id=VideoPlayback src=https://video.google.co.uk/googleplayer.swf?docid=-9159164859238659487&hl=en&fs=true style=width:590px;height:468px allowFullScreen=true allowScriptAccess=always type=application/x-shockwave-flash> </embed></p>
————-^

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SP Developer

Hi,
That feature is not currently supported, but is an interesting idea. Keep in mind that news feed syndication from publishers ussually only contain an abstract or shortened version of the full article. The reason is that a feed publisher WANTS the reader of the news item to click on their link and go to the publishers site.

Syndicate press will never download the FULL article from a publishers site. In most cases that would violate the copyright and terms of use of the publisher. You, as the site admin, would be fully responsible for any infringement and/or liability. Syndicate Press does NOT does not download the full article and will not support downloading a full article from a publisher.

A user of Syndicate Press gets the benefit of being able to cleanly syndicate a feed from a publisher and the publisher gets the benefit of other sites who are displaying feed items which link back to to the publishers site. It is great tool for both syndicators and publishers.

Hi,
I have a fix for this and am currently testing it out. I hope to deliver it to the plugin repository later this week.

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SP Developer

Hi irishmark,
SP currently ignores content that is encoded within a CDATA tag, like in the feed you are using. I am currently working up a resolution to this issue.

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SP Developer

Hi Miz.Michele,
Thanks for including the RSS feed publisher links. The easiest way to debug a publisher link and see what it is really providing is to put it directly into the URL address bar of a browser.

I did this for https://www.properurl.com/category/210851/app-news?clienttype=rss

and received a page saying it was going to redirect to: https://WWW.ZONE.EU/CATEGORY/210851/APP-NEWS?CLIENTTYPE=RSS

But it really redirected to https://www.zone.ee/en/

The other feed URL also redirects to https://www.zone.ee/en/

You might want to test out the feeds in a browser prior to putting them into Syndicate Press to make sure they are real feeds and not being redirected to weird URLs that are not feeds.

If a feed is working properly, you will see something like in your browser: https://syndicatepress.henryranch.net/feed/

Note that SP does not support redirection of URLs, or https protocol for feed URLs.

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SP Developer

Hi ade11,
I expect to put this into release 1.0.23.

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SP Developer

Hi ade11,
the custom cache root dir and caching clearing fix have been delivered in version 1.0.22.

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SP Developer