JohnRoyce
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In reply to: [WP RSS Multi Importer] How to edit the template field for the image titleYes, the feed is a mess. Aren’t there standards to RSS … is google just ignoring them?
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In reply to: [WP RSS Multi Importer] How to edit the template field for the image titleOkay, Allen, I appreciate your effort. BTW the Google feed was found using its little RSS icon, nothing out of the ordinary.
I understand you can’t stop to address a single-site issue. Thank you for your time!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP RSS Multi Importer] How to edit the template field for the image titleThe new file (excerpt_functions.php) took away the thumbnails completely for the Google News feeds.
No change on the other two issues:
> the Source field being in the headline
> Title and Source repeated in the description without punctuation.Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP RSS Multi Importer] How to edit the template field for the image titleThanks, and yes, I’d like to try it, Allen. Your plugin is the best RSS tool I’ve found for WordPress, and it’s important for our site to handle feeds from Google. Who knows why we’re the only ones reporting on this issue, but regardless of that, I’ll work with whatever files or directions you send to get it working, and I hope the solution might be of general value.
If this was a problem with any single feed, it could be done without … but since this is from Google News which is a backbone of most of our news feeds it needs to function. Ugh.
I’m also open to trying other ways, like running it through Yahoo Pipes or using an rss ‘mashup’ service like MailChimp’s to maybe standardize the Google feed. I’m only techie enough to get in trouble, though, your guidance would be appreciated.
* I hate to keep bringing this up, but the other two ‘Source’ field issues are also outstanding. Maybe solving one will let me sort out the others …
** If you’re still in need of beta testers I’d be happy to volunteer.
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In reply to: [WP RSS Multi Importer] How to edit the template field for the image titleOk, thanks Allen. Horrible news, lol, but thanks for checking.
Of course the idiosyncratic feed is Google News. I know the plugin’s last update involved Google News, so I gather no other users have mentioned this issue … not doubting it, but I’m wondering why. Is there something else others are doing?
Can I style the image title? Is this special php coding expensive?
I still have the need to solve the other two issues I listed: (1) the Source being in the headline, and (3) The Title and Source repeated in the description without punctuation.
Thanks for any help you can offer!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP RSS Multi Importer] How to edit the template field for the image titleThe ideal goal is for the template to show:
1) the title as the headline (no source appended).
2) the image thumbnail alone (no source below or above)
3) The description as: via SourceName – “Excerpt text…”Here is a screenprint image with the changes: http://thegreathorse.com/cr-sandbox/imgs/support/2014-06-21_supprtScrPrt_rss.jpg
The RSS Feed with the screenprinted item is: http://news.google.com/news/feeds?hl=en&gl=us&authuser=0&q=equine+welfare&um=1&ie=UTF-8&output=rss
The current feed is live here (center column under the subheading RSS Multi Importer): http://thegreathorse.com/cr-sandbox/
This is on a test site, I will be happy to send you login info for direct access … thank you again, Allen.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP RSS Multi Importer] How to edit the template field for the image titleIf I understand, the “Clean Separated” template is constructed to show the Source (1) appended to the headline, (2) displayed (in bold) below the image, and also (3) inserted before the excerpt. And, in addition the Source line inserted before the excerpt repeats BOTH title AND source, but leaves that prefix without punctuation so it runs without spacing into the excerpt.
No this can’t be true … I still think it is my misunderstanding or unfamiliarity. I will retry other templates, but all were tried previously and this was the considered choice.
I truly do appreciate your time, Allen, and I spent a number of hours trying to find a solution before making this support request. Asking for help is a last resort! Thank you for any help you can offer.
I appreciate your help … your explanation made sense, thank you.
Your response makes me wonder if our site design could be better automated … I’ll look into pagination. Thanks for the info!
I haven’t seen an Admin Alert … but your suggestion of changing the post limit from -1 brought up whatever number of posts I designated, and they seem fine.
Our site doesn’t set a designated number of posts to show, because the posts vary by length … but it appears you’ve isolated the issue.
Thanks for your help, please let me know if I can supply any other info.
Thank you EkoJr … our site (http://clean-round.com/) has a series of APL lists, no pagination, with no limit on posts (-1). We just aggregate posts in certain categories; it is APL’s excellent formatting options that make your plugin our top choice.
I can send you a PM with login details for the test site which demonstrates the problem, if that would be helpful.
It’s a great plugin, I know many others besides myself appreciate your efforts!
Update: The live site was restored from yesterday’s backup so it’s working again … the problem was recreated on a test installation URL:
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In reply to: [WP RSS Multi Importer] Facebook feed shows HTML entity codesI replaced the wp-rss-multi-importer.php file on my server with the file the author linked to above:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3132388/pluginfiles/wp-rss-multi-importer.php
Now our FB feeds looks good … I’m using shortcode btw.
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In reply to: [WP RSS Multi Importer] Remove […] from widget excerptOT but I don’t have a way to contact you, AuntyAstro. You asked a question an hour ago … but then someone closed the 7-MONTH OLD thread within seconds before I could reply.
Your inquiry was on this thread: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-not-showing-in-feed
YES this problem was solved … the solution is in this thread: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/facebook-feed-shows-html-entity-codes
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In reply to: [WP RSS Multi Importer] Facebook feed shows HTML entity codesYes! You did it, Allen … there is no entity-code displaying from our Facebook RSS feeds now!
Resolved … thank you for addressing this.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP RSS Multi Importer] Facebook feed shows HTML entity codesYes .. Facebook is Too Big to Care now.
Unfortunately the new file didn’t fix the issue: the source field is still showing entity code. ?
