davidcorrell

Hey Kafkaesqui, you out there? Man, I need your help. After working with this for a little bit, I’ve realized that it’s really not working. It’s doing some very weird things.

First thing I noticed is that when I post a page, NetNewsWire isn’t getting the update. The weird thing, is that it’s working in MacNews, just not NewNewsWire. I haven’t tested it on a PC, so I don’t know if it’s working there, but either way, it only partially working.

The other thing I’ve run into is that when I post a regular post, this it will update an old page. I haven’t figured out yet if it’s just a random page or if there’s a system to it, but it’s doing something screwey.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hey, thanks again for all the help, Kafka. I got it working!

Just so you know, there was a typo in your code. The very last endif needs to be <?php endif; ?>

Thanks again! I really appreciate the help!

Damn, I’m acting like a client, huh ??

OK, changing to full posts instead of summaries (which is actually what I wanted anyways) fixed that. Thanks!

I went to drop that title switcher in and realized that I don’t know where to put your code. Tried a couple different places, and wherever I put it, suddenly my RSS didn’t work at all anymore – posts or pages. So where does that code go?

Thanks for all the help!

huh – one more update: It doesn’t seem to be picking up the formatting of the post — line breaks, links, anything. It’s all displayed as one line, no formatting, no links (in my rss reader).

Wow, thanks for this! This is great. I’ve been in the same situation as lokjah, so I haven’t been able to get categories to work. But I think this will work for now.

I have one question about a possible tweak in the code. Is there any way to change the title of the feed (as it is displayed in your rss reader) if pages are requested instead of posts?

for example: if the regular feed is requested, the title shows up as “My Blog,” while if the pages feed is requested, the title shows up as “My Pages”?

hey man, thanks for the quick response. Unfortunately, I’m not sure what exactly that is you’re giving me… is that what I would put in the rss link? For rss for that specific page?

If I’m understanding that correctly, that’s not really what I’m looking to do. I’m not looking for page-specific rss. I’m wanting an rss feed that will reflect when I create a new page – just like it would when I create a new post.

Well, I have an update. I upgraded to WP 1.5 this week, and the fix in the link from somefool above no longer works. It’s still there (I didn’t write over it), but it doesn’t work anymore. Any experience with this?

OK, problem is fixed. I have been working in a test directory, since I’m still developing. I had a splash page index in my root. Aparently you have to have the <link> in that page, even though I wasn’t pointing my reader to the root.

Don’t understand it, but hey, it worked.

OK, here’s some more info again:
I fixed the <link> problem in my second post. It was just a path-name problem.

So in my RSS reader:
If I put the full address (example.com/wordpress/wp-rss2.php) into my reader, I get it. But not if I just put just the website (example.com). But this works fine with other WP sites.

Any help?
thanks!

ok, here’s some more info:

If I look at the html output, I’m seeing something weird. Up in the head, the php line
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
is outputting
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="Name of my Blog" />

But if I look at that line in other WP sites, that php is outputting the URI of wp-rss2.php.

Do I have something set up wrong?

Beautiful. Thanks!

well, I answered my own question. After fighting with the get_recent_posts plug-in for a long time, I discovered get_posts which did exactaly what I wanted.

Well, thanks to some help, i figured it out. The italic comes from the cite tag. I guess that’s just a default of the tag. So in my css, I threw font-style: normal on the cite tag, and it’s all ok.