Rss Feeds not updating

Oh, sorry, I am running this on Bluehost if that helps

your site is coming up when I try to go to it. what is the rss feed url that you say is not updating?

Hi Allen

My feeds are not updating as you can see on this URL
https://onetanktrip.com.au/test (click the link below the map “Events in this Area”)

The feed is there under an ‘expandable link’. The first event you will see is ‘Alice Springs Masters Games’….. long since expired as per the date.

I have 49 total feeds. I cannot get any of them to update, and have checked my SQL database, and have found that nothing is getting updated.

or, this simple link here
https://onetanktrip.com.au/test2/

what are the settings on your feed to post admin page…you have 49 feeds, but how many items per fetch etc do you have?

I’m having a similar problem. My feeds are not updating automatically to posts – but if I manually hit the “retrieve feeds” button in settings then they will update. I have it set to pull feeds every 10 minutes and I believe WP chron is working (though not entirely sure). My site is hokieapp.com.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

if it works manually, then the problem is with wordpress’s cron scheduler…read this to seeing what’s likely happening

https://www.allenweiss.com/faqs/the-cron-scheduler-isnt-working-whats-happening/

Sorry Allen, I worked it out. I am pulling feeds off this site….
https://www.evenfinder.com.au

There are some ‘recurring’ feeds, so what the plugin is doing, is listing these ‘recurring’ feeds, but showing the ‘first date’ they started.

So for example, if a recurring event is scheduled for 1 July, 1 August, 1 September, 1 October, the feed comes in with the event, showing the 1 July date, giving the reader the impression that it is showing expired events and not ‘refreshing’. Any way around this to simply not show these events? Tricky one. Other than that, plugin works great!

Thanks
Todd

Hi Todd
Yes, this is tricky..when I sent to that url, I got a 404 message, so I’m not sure what the RSS feed looks like…perhaps you can post that feed here so I can see if there is some way around this.

Allen

Thanks Allen, here is the exact URL of one of the feeds with recurring events.
https://www.eventfinder.com.au/feed/events/canberra/whatson/upcoming.rss

I have loaded into your plugin and have displayed it here (Under the ‘google map’ click ‘Events in this Area’)

As you can see, the first event All Saints Market, is current, but it is showing its very first date it happened, making the post look out of date. IF you view the event in the light box, it still shows another Market coming up.

thanks
Todd

ok..well, that’s not going to work with my plugin as it is now coded since you have multiple events with the same title and the same url. If I changed the code to allow this I would have hundreds of complaints from people getting duplicate results.

If you’re using the feed to post, you would need to go into the import_posts.php file, look for this line

if ((empty( $mypostids ) && $mypostids !== false) && empty($myposttitle) ){

and change it to something like this

if (1==1){

that will let in everything, including all duplicates.

Thanks Allen. I have tried using the feed to post, but any ‘future’ feed dates, the posts are ‘scheduled’ and don’t show up in the feed. Is there a way around this?

Of course I don’t expect you to change any of the code, but you did offer me that code for ‘feed to post’. What exactly does that do? Will it kill off previous/earlier scheduled dates? I am trying to simple get your plugin to sort of work like a calendar (just listing 20 or so events, with dates starting on today, ascending to future dates) but any future dates do not show up as they are ‘scheduled’.

Is there a work around for this?

Thanks Heaps Todd

if future dates come in as scheduled, which they do by definition in wordpress, you can can override this using option in the feed to post to use the current datetime…just look for this in the feed to post admin page.

Ta Mate

Allen, so what is this code you sent me all about?
if ((empty( $mypostids ) && $mypostids !== false) && empty($myposttitle) ){

and change it to something like this

if (1==1){

the first line I said to get rid of checks to see if the title and url has already been entered. By getting rid of that line (which will be false because they have already been entered into the database) and changing that to something that is true (namely 1==1), that reasults in you getting all entries to be entered, regardless of they are duplicates or not.