1.5.1 RSS issue

How did a bug as major as this make it through testing? ??

I applied Dougal’s solution 24 hours ago and all is well w/RSS so far.

Very easy to put into effect, by the way.

yeah, actually…

so far both fixes seem to be identical in terms of results.

I didn’t notice any 304 errors with my feeds, but I have applied the fix found on https://fernando.dubtribe.com/archives/2005/05/10/solution-to-wp151-rss-errors/

Everything seems fine except for category feeds.

I am using Magpie to display the RSS feed. When I parse the site’s main feed, I have no problems. However, if I try to parse just one category from the site, I can only see one older post (there is more than 1 post in the category).

Here is the PHP I am using:

// Split the array to show complete first article
$items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, 1);

// Cycle through each item and echo
foreach ($items as $item )

{
echo '<h2><a href="'.$item['link'].'">'.$item['title'].'</a></h2>'.$item['content']['encoded'];
}

// Split the array to show list of next 4 article links
$items = array_slice($rss->items, 1, 4);

// Cycle through each item and echo
foreach ($items as $item )

{
echo '<ul><li><a href="'.$item['link'].'">'.$item['title'].'</a></li></ul>';
}

I am accessing the category feed in this manner:

// Fetch RSS feed
$rss = fetch_rss('https://www.mysite.com/index.php?feed=rss2&cat=3');

When I view the feed in the browser, I can see the other post.

Can anyone spot my trouble?

TIA!
JF ??

I haven’t read all of the threads to see if anyone has come up with a final solution, but here’s mine:

In wp-blog-header.php replace

if ( ($client_last_modified && $client_etag) ?
((strtotime($client_last_modified) >= strtotime($wp_last_modified)) && ($client_etag == $wp_etag)) :
((strtotime($client_last_modified) >= strtotime($wp_last_modified)) || ($client_etag == $wp_etag)) )

with

$not_modified = $client_last_modified ? (strtotime($client_last_modified) >= strtotime($wp_last_modified)) : false;
$not_modified = ($not_modified && $client_etag) ? ($client_etag == $wp_etag) : false;
if ( $not_modified )

I’ve only just written it so I haven’t done any real testing, but it seems to work.

Actually, the issue discussed in this thread was fixed in v1.5.1.1, which was released a few days ago.

Thanks! Looks like the 1.5.1.1 update solved my issue with category feeds.

JF ??