Two identical sites, two results

  • kitemonkey

    (@kitemonkey)


    12 years, 5 months ago

    Hi Allen,

    First off, thanks for this plugin, it works great, its well laid and is usually flawlessly behaved. I have this in place on our intranet, and it nicely pulls in content from an assortment of internal blogs, generates feed to post properly, etc. I also have the site on a separate URL as a dev version.

    On the dev version, the plugin properly displays 3 posts across, and 2 posts high, so 6 posts.

    On the live version though (same WP code, same revision of the RSS multimporter and the same settings (I put them side by side and meticulously checked…) Same template file in both places as well.

    I get 3 posts across on the top, 2 on the bottom, it consistently only brings in 5 posts. Any idea where to start looking for that, given the two instances of it SEEM to be identical with regards to how they are setup?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/

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  • Plugin Author Allen

    (@amweiss98)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    I’m not sure if you’re saying the issue is with the layout (which is a css setting), or the number of items that feed has brought in. If this is the exact same feed, exact same settings, and it’s on two different servers, then the issue is with the server (perhaps throttling the feed).

    Thread Starter kitemonkey

    (@kitemonkey)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Hi Allen, thanks for the reply. Oddly, the two sites are on the exact same server but, your note about throttling made me wonder if maybe the Wp-Cache that runs on the live server may be interfering. I’ll try turning it off.

    thanks,

    Plugin Author Allen

    (@amweiss98)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    right…the cache will hold the last number of minutes and won’t refresh to the current situation…turning it off should help, but you can turn it on after you get what you want (6 items from the feed)

    Thread Starter kitemonkey

    (@kitemonkey)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Alas, left the cache off all night and there’s still just 5 out of six entries showing. Anything in the db I can check? The two sites are nearly indentical with regards to plugins used but, I’ll confirm they ARE identical.

    thanks for your help,

    Thread Starter kitemonkey

    (@kitemonkey)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Just as an addendum to this, tried moving the plugin folder from the working site over to the non working one, alas, no difference.

    thanks

    Plugin Author Allen

    (@amweiss98)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    go into the posts on your site and see if there are only 5 entries…if there are then the problem is with bringing in the feed items…if there are 6, then the problem is with the theme or wordpress.

    Thread Starter kitemonkey

    (@kitemonkey)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    There’s dozens of them, on both sites. The theme and WordPress versions are also identical between the two sites, one was used as the construction for the main site.

    What’s odd is it worked properly for months.

    Plugin Author Allen

    (@amweiss98)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    well, the only thing that could have changed with respect to my plugin is if the cron stopped working on your site….the only way to check that is to go to the feed to post admin page, uncheck activate, save, the check activate again and save.

    The only other thing is whether the theme got updated, and as a result it’s not working…again, all my plugin does is bring in the posts – nothing more than that.

    Thread Starter kitemonkey

    (@kitemonkey)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    No worries, I do understand that all the plugin does is bring in posts, that makes sense. What’s baffling is both sites use the same everything, down to the server and it’s running of cron, theme level, etc. I’ll try what you suggest and thanks again!

    Thread Starter kitemonkey

    (@kitemonkey)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    So this did get fixed in the end, here’s what fixed it.

    Quite literally, lifted the rss_import_options SQL contents from the working site and replacing it in the non working one.

    Working fine now, so, something got stuck in the db. Still mystified but, working.

    Plugin Author Allen

    (@amweiss98)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    thanks..not sure why it got stuck in the db unless something happened with wp that choked when it was trying to store in the db…that can happen, but usually on a server for various reasons.

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