[Plugin: FeedWordPress] Custom Posts Settings

Sorry no help just that I’ve got similar problem. Tags in the feed like:
<media:thumbnail url=”…..” />
<media:pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:30:00 GMT</media:pubDate>

As per examples used x-path like syntax to reference them but not working,
$(media:pubDate)
$(media:thumbnail/@url)

But one that did work was for the tag I figured won’t work,
<media:player ….>{html code for embedding player}</media:player>
the $(media:player) referenced the tag and stored all the html code into a custom field.

I’ll keep poking it and will post back if I find a solution.

I have managed to pull in some top level RSS items such as title and pubDate using $(title) and $(pubDate) as custom field values but no luck yet pulling sub items.

I am able to use the Custom Fields successfully for tags,
<media:player>
<media:keywords>

and get these imported as part of the posts.

A bit of a hunch but what I think is happening for other tags is that if the tag isn’t part of the namespace of the feed’s header, that is they are undefined custom tags, then FeedWordPress doesn’t seem to be able to recognize or find them in the feed. The code for Simplepie/Maggpie the FeedWordPress uses seems to support this notion (but its a lot of code to sift through).

Check your feed’s head for the namespace and then browse to it to get its tag definitions. Tags not part of standard RSS 2.0 or in the defined namespace might not be accessible.

The plugin’s author would have to confirm this behavior.