Plugin Author
Jean
(@jeangalea)
We’ll be looking into it, might take a bit though as we are experiencing an abnormally high level of support requests at the moment. Your patience is appreciated.
CrazySerb and I are working on this project together, and we found the main problem — the site didn’t have any Posts (only Pages). Upon adding a post, the feed became functional. *However*…
The combined feed is only showing headlines and thumbnails, no description or preview. All of the original feeds provide this.
There seem to be errors within the feed itself. Here’s the Feed Validator report:
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoloprpro.com%2Fsolo-pr-premium-blog-spotlight%2Ffullfeed
Please let us know how we can fix this – thanks.
Hi,
I apologise for the delay. Was swamped by support requests.
First and foremost, the original feed url is giving a 404. If you would like to receive further support on this subject, please make sure that the feed is available.
With regard to the validation, while I am not extremely familiar with the internals of the underlying parser, it should handle missing elements without an error. Also, if no author is provided for feed elements, WP RSS Aggregator will use the fallback author.
Aside from the mentioned points, are you using any WP RSS Aggregator extensions? Is there a URL where I can examine the issues you discribe?
We have the plugin in a subfolder (due to a conflict with another plugin) at http://soloprpro.com/solo-pr-premium-blog-spotlight/
The feed URL changed (sorry, I didn’t realize CrazySerb gave you the old one) — it’s http://soloprpro.com/solo-pr-premium-blog-spotlight/fullfeed
We are using the Categories extension.
Just let me know if you need any additional info – thanks.
Hi CrazyZerb and Kellyec,
I tested the feed on Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer. And it worked perfectly on all three. Perhaps you are using some caching plugin, or link for the feed is being used by another resource’s slug?
Also, please note that WP RSS Aggregator does not add any content to the feed items in the custom feed. The items are added to the custom feed exactly as they are shown when using the shortcode; i.e. a link and the title. To retrieve the content, and include it in the feed you will need the Excerpts & Thumbnails add-on.
Regarding the validation, we will try to modify the feed to make it more standard compliant.
Mekku- I purchased the Excerpts & Thumbnails add-on, but now I have a different (related) issue. I want the custom feed (which people subscribe to) to include the excerpts – since this is important when viewing the feed in a tool like Feedly – but I don’t want that additional information on my Alltop-style webpage (http://soloprpro.com/solo-pr-premium-blog-spotlight/).
I built the webpage using categories and want to display only clickable post titles, but upon activation of the Excerpts & Thumbnails add-on excerpts were added to each post.
Is there a way for me to use the Excerpts add-on for the custom feed but exclude that content from the webpage?
Hi kelly,
You can use the new parameters in the shortcodes.
Have a look here: http://www.wprssaggregator.com/docs/shortcodes/
So in your case, just add the excerpts and thumbnails parameters and set them to off:
[wp-rss-aggregator excerpts="no" thumbnails=" no"]
That way, you can keep the excerpts and thumbnails features turned on, but not show them on your site.
