RSS Problems in Google Reader

  • Resolved darreno

    (@darreno)


    19 years ago

    Firstly I had the problem of not getting full posts in Google Reader and only excerpts.

    I did the following:

    1) Made sure that “full text” was checked in Options>Reading
    2) Corrected the code on rss2.php line 37 to read:
    <description><![CDATA[<?php the_content() ?>]]></description>
    3) And finally downloaded the plug-in Full Text Feed

    Here are my problems:

    1) The following links work fine but display different dates in Google Reader – None of which are the actual post dates. In fact the posts all have the same dates, which are different on each feed (weird!!):

    http://www.darrenmusic.com/feed/rdf/
    http://www.darrenmusic.com/feed/rss2/
    http://www.darrenmusic.com/feed/atom/

    I have no idea why Google Reader is not getting the correct post date for each individual post. Any suggestions?

    2) The rss1 link eg. http://www.darrenmusic.com/feed/rss/ still does not display the full post in the reader. Moreover this also seems to be the default rss feed if one clicks on the rss feed symbol in the browser address bar (in Firefox) even though in the header.php template I see that it reads
    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
    For some reason the rss2_url parameter is not pointing to the rss2.php file. Where is this parameter stored and how can it be changed? At present I have had to hard-code into the header the rss2 link.

    If anyone can throw any light on these strange behaviors it would be much appreciated.

    Thanks

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  • Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    ww.wp.xz.cn Admin

    19 years ago

    Regarding #2: Looking at the source of your page, the alternate is pointing to the /feed/rss2/ link, not the rss link. Perhaps you’re viewing from the browser cache?

    Thread Starter darreno

    (@darreno)

    19 years ago

    Regarding #2: Looking at the source of your page, the alternate is pointing to the /feed/rss2/ link, not the rss link. Perhaps you’re viewing from the browser cache?

    Like I mentioned in my question I had to hard-code /feed/rss2/ into the header template for this to work – it was defaulting to the rss1.0 feed even though I was using bloginfo('rss2_url')

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    ww.wp.xz.cn Admin

    19 years ago

    Ahh. Well, I don’t know then. I’m using bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); and it works fine for me.

    BTW, it should just point to http://example.com/blog/feed/ . No “rss2” required, as that is assumed.

    Dgold

    (@dgold)

    19 years ago

    Not sure I understand or if this applies, but, have you tried just using
    http://www.yoursite.com/feed/
    and let it default to RSS2?

    Thread Starter darreno

    (@darreno)

    19 years ago

    That is the problem even http://www.yoursite.com/feed/ defaults to rss1.0 ???? why is it doing this?

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    ww.wp.xz.cn Admin

    19 years ago

    darreno: No, it doesn’t.

    http://www.darrenmusic.com/feed/ is an RSS2 feed.

    Thread Starter darreno

    (@darreno)

    19 years ago

    hmm that is weird. Maybe something with Google Reader caching. It seems to be working now and the dates seem to be correct.

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