neilcreek

Thanks for the reply. I gave that a go, but unfortunately made no difference. The stage and editor look exactly like the screenshot I posted.

Thanks for the help. I’ve fixed the problem. Turning off the plugins didn’t help, but while I was looking through them it occurred to me that the behaviour seemed like a caching issue. I looked deeper into the SuperCache plugin I’m using, and I realised that I had the incorrect code in the .htaccess file. I forgot to update it the last time I upgraded the plugin.

So your suggestion set me on the right path to think about the problem. Thanks!

Perhaps I made a mistake replying to my thread with an update, thus making it look like I had a reply offering help. This matter is still unresolved, and I’d really like some assistance please.

Yes, I shall. This post came as a result of clicking the “Got something to say? Need help? Write a new topic.” link at the bottom of the plugin page. I didn’t realise it would be posted out of context to the WordPress support forum. Sorry if it was in the wrong place.

I was just speaking to a friend who subscribes to my blog’s RSS feed. She informed me that the last post that shows in her Google Reader for the feed is the same Nov19th post!

This is a worse situation than I feared. If people are subscribed, they may not be seeing my new posts. Even if they visit the blog, they won’t see a new post and move on. Only people who are linked directly to the more recent posts are able to see them.

I’d really appreciate some help with this issue as soon as possible. I’ve built up my readership over the last year, and I don’t want it to die because of this problem.

Thanks!

Sorry I didn’t give the link, you’re right, it should have been obvious to me to give you an example. Here is the converted rss feed:

https://www.orionvisuals.com/temp/blog.xml

I’ll try to provide as much information as possible in the future. I was completely lost and not sure exactly what would have helped. I just need to look arder and deeper I guess.

Does the xml file give any further clues? Looking at it myself, I can’t see the full content of the posts anywhere. The <description> tag only seems to appear once per item.

Thanks for the reply. I tried what you suggested, and this is how the xsl in question looked after the change:

<x:choose>
		<x:when test="atom:summary"><description><x:apply-templates select="atom:summary" mode="asHTML"/> <x:if test="atom:content"> (...)</x:if></description></x:when>
		<x:when test="atom:content"><content:encoded><x:apply-templates select="atom:content" mode="asHTML"/></content:encoded></x:when>
	</x:choose>

Is this correct?

Unfortunately, the same thing seems to have happened. The images are stripped and only the summary is shown in the post.

Thank you very much for your reply!

That has taken me a huge step forward! I can convert the xmp, import it and all the entries are there with the correct links and the correct dates. Unfortunately, the full entries are not imported. All links to images (inline within the posts) have been stripped, and only the summary of the post text is shown.

I assume this is by the design of the XSL sheet you linked for me. Is there a version that preserves the images and the full post text?

If you can help me get this working I’d be happy to help you out in whatever way I may be able to, somehow! I wish I could buy you a drink ??

Beautiful! That did just the trick, thank you!

Please?

Bump

I’m still hoping for some help on this one. Any ideas?

Thanks for the reply Poco. And good suggestion!

Unfortunately I had tried it, but the converter gave me an error.

Here’s the file: https://www.orionvisuals.com/temp/july-13-sep07.xml

Here’s where I tried to convert it: https://www.2rss.com/software.php?page=atom2rss

This is the error I got:
XML Parsing Error: no element found
Location: https://www.2rss.com/atom2rss.php?atom=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.orionvisuals.com%2Ftemp%2Fjuly-13-sep07.xml
Line Number 1, Column 1:
^

Any suggestions?

I’ve done some more research. It turns out that the method I used to get the feed archive from google reader DOES output an atom file ( https://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/06/reconstruct-feeds-history-using-google.html ) not an RSS one.

I’ve just spent a couple of hours of frustration trying to find a way to convert the atom file into an rss file. Just about every page I could find online would only convert live atom feeds, rather than a locally stored xml file. There is no atom feed, just the archive that I have. A little more searching turned up an xslt file that supposedly will transform an atom xml file into an rss xml file ( https://cavedoni.com/2004/02/atom03rss1.xsl ). After much further searching I found an app (with a 10 day free trial) that will to xml transformations with an xslt file ( https://www.xmlblueprint.com ).

Finally having success at transforming the atom xml viat the xslt, I try importing the file…

Nothing.

Same problem as before. So I’m now at a loss what to do again. Anyone got any ideas?

Thank you for the reply!

I really hated bumping so much, and I hate it when others do, but I made my first post five days ago, and this is the first response. If I hadn’t bumped, it would have been on the 10th page by now, and lost forever. I’ve tried to be constructive with my bumps, but I apologise for doing it as much as I did.

My old blogger page generated an atom feed. I’ve managed to figure out the problem with importing the old blogger entries, so that won’t be a problem now, fortunately.

The blog, since I moved it to wordpress, was an RSS feed. I retrieved the backup of the feed archive by exporting them from Google Reader. I don’t know if this is in atom format or rss. I did one export which only retrieved the rss archive from reader, after I’d stopped using atom. Could that still be a problem?

Here’s the first bit of one of the xml files I’m trying to import:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<feed xmlns:gr="https://www.google.com/schemas/reader/atom/" xmlns:media="https://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns="https://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><!--
Content-type: Preventing XSRF in IE.

--><generator uri="https://www.google.com/reader">Google Reader</generator><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/https://neil.creek.name/blog/feed/</id><title>Neil&amp;#39;s Place</title><link rel="self" href="https://www.google.com/reader/atom/feed/https://neil.creek.name/blog/feed/?r=n&amp;n=500"/><link rel="alternate" href="https://neil.creek.name/blog" type="text/html"/><updated>2007-09-07T02:24:06Z</updated><entry gr:is-read-state-locked="true" gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1189131846356"><id gr:original-id="https://neil.creek.name/blog/?p=3">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/d6922edc079e8ae8</id><category term="user/08677544345365840733/state/com.google/read" scheme="https://www.google.com/reader/" label="read"/><category term="Uncategorized"/><title type="html">Technical problems</title><Publish>2007-09-07T01:50:05Z</Publish><updated>2007-09-07T01:50:05Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="https://neil.creek.name/blog/2007/09/06/technical-problems/" type="text/html"/><summary xml:base="https://neil.creek.name/blog" type="html">Regretably I have encountered some sever technical problems, and my blog is currently unavbailable. It will take some time to restore the blog, and unfortunately comments at least have been lost. Please bear with me while I attempt to restore the blog.
I will still be taking daily photographs for Project 365, but I will have [...]</summary><content xml:base="https://neil.creek.name/blog" type="html"><p>Regretably I have encountered some sever technical problems, and my blog is currently unavbailable. It will take some time to restore the blog, and unfortunately comments at least have been lost. Please bear with me while I attempt to restore the blog.</p>
<p>I will still be taking daily photographs for Project 365, but I will have to catch up once the blog is back in working condition.</p>

I note that both “atom” and “mrss” are mentioned in the header. Is this a problem? If so, does anyone know how to choose the format that Google Reader can export to? This is the method I usedto get the feed history: https://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/06/reconstruct-feeds-history-using-google.html

Thank again so much for your reply. With a little direction I’m sure I can figure this out.