Question about “forcing” updated article back into RSS

  • Yorge

    (@jerrry)


    4 years, 3 months ago

    Hello, I am trying to solve issue with pushing update of edited/updated article back to RSS feed.

    On our website we publish around 10 articles per day and WordPress has limit for last 10 articles in RSS feed. But sometimes I need to update a post, which is few days old and already dismissed from RSS feed.

    When I take this older article, add new content and change publish date to today’s, than article is posted back on homepage and also in RSS feed (when I check mysite.com/feed, I can see than this article is in feed again), but…

    …RSS readers ignoring this article and don’t show this edited article in the list of new articles. I saw some WordPress websites where this was working (they release edited article again and it is pushed into my RSS app), but in default WordPress didn’t do that. Do you have any idea how to do this?

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic
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  • Joy

    (@joyously)

    4 years, 3 months ago

    The RSS readers use the date and the guid to determine if the post has been read already. Changing the date is only half of the equation.

    Thread Starter Yorge

    (@jerrry)

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Thank for reply, Joy, and do you know what will help as a second half? 🙂

    Joy

    (@joyously)

    4 years, 3 months ago

    The guid is supposed to be a unique identifier for the post, specifically for RSS feeds to know if that post has been seen or not. So if you change it, that defeats the purpose of the guid. If you republish the post as a new post, it would have a different guid that hasn’t been seen yet. Your choice.

    Thread Starter Yorge

    (@jerrry)

    4 years, 3 months ago

    ok, thank you for your feedback 🙂

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