What kind of URLs does HungryFEED support?

  • Resolved geoffbeggs

    (@geoffbeggs)


    13 years, 9 months ago

    Hi, have just installed the HungryFEED rss reader plugin, and got it working, sort of.

    If I enter, into the shortcode, a URL like this “https://mysite.com/fred.rss” , it works, no problems.

    But I want to use the rss feed from an existing wordpress.com site. That URL looks like this: “https://mysite.wordpress.com/feed/”. I can enter that URL directly into a browser and get the feed. But, unlike the first type of URL, it won’t work in HungryFEED. All I get is the Whenever I use this, I get the VerySimple site (the default site for errors).

    Is there some “name.rss” I need to put on the end of the wordpress feed URL?

    Any other thoughts?

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  • You can use any format of URL. When the verysimple feed displays that means the URL parameter is messed up. i have seen two reasons why that occurs:

    1. You use “fancy” quotes in the shortcode (like those used in wordprocessors, not the straigh up/down quotes)

    2. You copy/paste the URL from somewhere and the WordPress editor pastes in actual HTML code for the link instead of just text. You can usually spot this if the URL parameter in your shortcode is underlined like a link. The way to fix this is to go into HTML view and remove any tags, for example if you look at the code you would see something like this:

    [hungryfeed url="<a href="https://mysite.wordpress.com/feed/">https://mysite.wordpress.com/feed/</a>"]

    you should remove all html code so it looks like this:

    [hungryfeed url="https://mysite.wordpress.com/feed/"]

    Thread Starter geoffbeggs

    (@geoffbeggs)

    Thanks for that. Yes, it was number 2. I should have viewed it in the HTML editor.

    Sort of obvious now that you have said it….

    thanks for that. Works beautifully now.

    excellent, i have made the same mistake myself and i wrote the plugin!

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