Title: [Plugin: FeedWordPress] addon request: filter ebay rss error posts
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: FeedWordPress] addon request: filter ebay rss error posts

 *  [q292u](https://wordpress.org/support/users/q292u/)
 * (@q292u)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-feedwordpress-addon-request-filter-ebay-rss-error-posts/)
 * I have a LOT of ebay rss feeds on a couple of sites.
    ebay’s new rss feeds regularly
   generate error posts via feedwordpress, always with the title starting with: “
   1970-01-01..”
 * Could you put together a quick fwp filter to stop these posts ever being created
   in the first place?
 * I’ve had a go at implementing a (fwp) filter to remove them, but it doesn’t appear
   to do anything :(.
 * Thanks in advance..
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedwordpress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedwordpress/)

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 *  Thread Starter [q292u](https://wordpress.org/support/users/q292u/)
 * (@q292u)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-feedwordpress-addon-request-filter-ebay-rss-error-posts/#post-2510132)
 * Never mind. I’ve done it myself.
    I’ve used another fwp filter as a starting 
   point, and then changed the logic (and names etc). My filter looks for “1970-
   01-01 00:00:00” within the title field. (I found that sometimes the string was
   prefixed with “eBay Search: (Error)”)..
 * Anyway, I’m sorted. The filter is working on two of my sites without problems.
   I’ve not looked into packaging the filter as a plugin yet.
    I’ll let you know
   if I do..
 *  [silveristhenew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silveristhenew/)
 * (@silveristhenew)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-feedwordpress-addon-request-filter-ebay-rss-error-posts/#post-2510133)
 * what filter did you use as a starting point.
    I would like to filter/change the
   content of a post and used the ‘Strip HTML Tags from Posts’ filter as a starting
   point. It worked with the last version of FWP but I can’t get it to work now.
 * Did something change in the latest revision
    any ideas?
 * I am using these hooks:
 *  `add_action(
    /*hook=*/ ‘feedwordpress_admin_page_posts_meta_boxes’, /*function
   =*/ array(&$this, ‘posts_meta_boxes’), /*priority=*/ 100, /*arguments=*/ 1 );
   add_action( /*hook=*/ ‘feedwordpress_admin_page_posts_save’, /*function=*/ array(&
   $this, ‘posts_save’), /*priority=*/ 100, /*arguments=*/ 2 );
 *  add_filter(
    /*hook=*/ ‘the_content’, /*function=*/ array(&$this, ‘the_content’),/*
   priority=*/ 10010 ); add_filter( /*hook=*/ ‘the_content_rss’, /*function=*/ array(&
   $this, ‘the_content’), /*priority=*/ 10010 );`
 *  Thread Starter [q292u](https://wordpress.org/support/users/q292u/)
 * (@q292u)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-feedwordpress-addon-request-filter-ebay-rss-error-posts/#post-2510134)
 * I used a filter about duplicate posts.
 * Unfortunately, I’ve just found a “1970-01-01 00:00:00” that got through last 
   night.
    It seems my filter **isn’t** working.. 🙁
 *  [silveristhenew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silveristhenew/)
 * (@silveristhenew)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-feedwordpress-addon-request-filter-ebay-rss-error-posts/#post-2510139)
 * yeah looks like i’ll be working on this one too. I have a couple other uses for
   filtering the content of the post but can’t seem to find a hook that works. If
   i find anything useful, I’ll post it here.

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