RSS 2.0 import

  • I’ve tried importing from an RSS file generated by another system. The test post shows up in my Edit section, but is not being displayed. And when I click on the Title of the test post, I get an error message that no post meets my selection.
    I’m thinking maybe I’m not using the correct tags within the RSS. Is there a list of the minimal set of tags to import from RSS 2.0?
    My file looks like this:
    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <rss version="2.0">
    <channel>
    <title>My Channel</title>
    <link>https://homepage.mac.com/jcherfas/</link>
    <description>An attempted import</description>
    <language>en-uk</language>
    <item>
    <title>The second test, from TB</title>
    <category>Glory</category>
    <description>Come on, this is supposed to be easy.
    </description>
    <pubDate>25 Aug 2004 22:20</pubDate>
    </item>
    </channel>
    </rss>

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  • The post author is always the administrator of the blog (user id 1), so perhaps you are not logged in as the admin.
    Otherwise, it should work fine.

    Thread Starter jeremycherfas

    (@jeremycherfas)

    I was logged in as admin, so I don’t think that was it.
    Is it maybe that I am using <description> for the content, and there is some other tag? This isn’t really the description, or summary. It is the whole post from the other blog.
    Thanks
    Jeremy

    If you look at the database directly, do the posts look normal? It sounds like it might be a problem with dates.

    I’m trying to import an offline blog via rss, and I can’t get pubDate to edit the timestamp. Below is one of my entries, and the date still shows the import date, Jan 1, 2006. Am I doing something wrong?

    <item>
    <pubdate>27 10 2005</pubdate>
    <category>All the events</category>
    <category>Endocrinologist</category>
    <title>10/27/05- smashing pumpkins</title>
    <description>Consultation with Hamrahian to review
    bloodwork and progress. Dr’s office should be
    calling us to move appt earlier at request of Cohen.
    CCF Desk A53.</description>
    </item>

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