problem with rss in news module - FIXED

[syamfamily]

The news-feeder on AMASP is running with 2.8.1
http://www.websitebakers.com/modules/news/rss.php?page_id=3

And there was the rss-module in the past running on the same installation.

rgds

erpe

No valid RSS

http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.websitebakers.com%2Fmodules%2Fnews%2Frss.php%3Fpage_id%3D3

[erpe]

But running.........
You can modify some errors if you are not using [wb-link], but for me it is important that it works and not if some guys at w3c (or someone else) don't know the [wb-link]-function.
I like it.

rgds

erpe

[sparkdigital]

Just a quick query - will the RSS feed be updated even when an existing news post is updated, rather than created from scratch? We're using this function on one of my client's special offers page and we'd like to publish a feed even when only the price in the post is updated. Does this make sense? 

Thanks!

Konrad

[jonny]

Hi there everyone,

I want to add the RSS News feeder to my site. I have installed the add-on, it installed correctly and I have adjusted the pieces of code to make my script validate correctly however none of the news appears on the RSS Feed. The page is populated but it is empty even though there is news on the news page. I have made fresh news posts but nothing is being pulled across to the RSS Feed.

I am running version 2.8.1 of website baker with News v3.5 and RSS News Feeder 1.1.1.

Does anyone know how I can get this working.

Thanks for you help

[jonny]

Just a quick update to the problem I am having.

I looked into where the RSS button is trying to link to and it appears to be different to that of the installation at websitebakers.com.

My installation of RSS News Feed appears to be linking to /modules/rssnewsfeed/rssnewsfeed.php where as the one on websitebakers.com appears to be linking to /modules/news/rss.php.

I have checked my install and all files are there and configured to work with my site, is my rss feed button linking to the correct place?

I have searched the forum and read this thread but I cannot work out the answer. Any help would be great as I would really like to have the news feed working as there are some people who view my site but would find it really helpful to have a news feed.

Cheers

[mylesk42]

Hi,
I've installed the RssSiteFeed. and I've noticed it didn't work with IE and Chrome : IE links to the same page of the website and Chrome displays the list of pages in plain text.
An idea ?
Cheers
Thans for the module !

[Turskis]

Jonny, did you manage to get it working?

Having same problem...

[freckles]

Hi

This worked for me too, thanks. Taking the "&" symbol out of the website title and Meta information got the feed accepted. There were a few other validtation issues, such as the email, that caused the feed to be invalid for Feedburner, but it worked fine as a direct RSS.

Cheers

[daydreamer]

How to get this working with WB 2.8.1?
Thanks

[daydreamer]

How to make this valid for WB 2.8.3?

[kweitzel]

@daydreamer: you might want to specify your issues a bit more in detail ...

cheers

Klaus

[daydreamer]

The issue is the feed does not validate.

[kweitzel]

What errors are you getting? Like this?

Code:

   line 18, column 33: pubDate must be an RFC-822 date-time: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:03 (61 occurrences) [help]

         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:03</pubDate>

It is just missing the timezone info ...

cheers

Klaus

[daydreamer]

These are my errors

Code:

This feed does not validate.

line 16, column 34: pubDate must be an RFC-822 date-time: Tue, 01 May 2012 20:32:26 (10 occurrences) [help]

<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 20:32:26</pubDate>
                                  ^

line 21, column 20: Invalid email address: Daydreamer (10 occurrences) [help]

<author>Daydreamer</author>
                    ^

In addition, interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.

line 7, column 93: Self reference doesn't match document location [help]

...  rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/>
                                             ^
line 22, column 0: item should contain a guid element (10 occurrences) [help]

</item>

[kweitzel]

I am not sure where it pulls the e-mail address out of, I do not get the error on a 2.8.3 installation with the e-mail address, only with the date format.

Are you using several different Useraccounts to write news?

Anyway, I just checked, the e-mail address should be the server-email and nothing else. It is pulled in line 64 of the rss.php ... the timezone can be fixed in line 89 of the same file by statically adding the TZ Identifier (e.g. GMT):
http://project.websitebaker2.org/projects/wb28x/repository/entry/branches/2.8.x/wb/modules/news/rss.php

This is only a dirty quick hack though ... one of the developers should make the requried change for this.

cheers

Klaus