Shortcode use – pruning incoming feeds

  • mgreis

    (@mgreis)


    11 years, 5 months ago

    With the improvements made in WP RSS Multi-Importer version 3.0, I thought I could finally implement something I’ve been trying to do for a long time – prune incoming feeds displayed by the shortcode. It doesn’t work, and I’m wondering why.

    According to the plug-in’s web site:

    In the past, when you used the shortcode, everytime the page loaded you brought in the feed items. This was taxing on the servers for many users. …

    With version 3.0, this is handled differently. The feed items are brought in using the wordpress scheduler into the database (go to Global Settings for this). Then, if you are using the shortcode, the items are pulled from the database, not the web. The same goes for the Feed to Post (now called AutoPost). Fetching comes from the database, not the web.

    If I use the shortcode to bring in 10 items (call them 1 – 10)from a given feed and display 5 of them, the plug-in displays the newest five items (1 – 5), as expected.

    If I now move three of the most recent five items (#2,3,4)to the trash, I expect the display to now show items #1,5,6,7,8. But it doesn’t; it still displays 1 – 5. If I permanently delete #3, then the feed displays #1,2,4,5,6, as expected. But permanently deleting the item will cause it to be re-fetched the next time the feeds are updated.

    This seems counter-intuitive. Since the plug-in shortcode is now using the database to display the feeds, why doesn’t it remove trashed items from the display?

    Any insights or suggestions would be appreciated.

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/

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  • Thread Starter mgreis

    (@mgreis)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    I also noticed something else puzzling.

    If you bring in a feed with both autopost and shortcode, the wp_posts table has two entries for each post, one of post_type rssmi_feed_item, the other of post_type post. That makes sense. But if you trash such a post from the Feed Items screen, both posts are moved to the trash. (Same with permanently deleting them.)

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