fairlightvillage

Thanks Gabriel – that has removed the border – just as I wanted!
regards,
Bill

I think that I’ve even put the revised module in the right directory of my theme now!

OK so I have found the code that generates this message in dashboard.php and I have commented it out. Is this the right way to do things – (it doesn’t feel like it)?
Thanks,
Bill

I don’t understand why but this morning it’s working again! Hence I’m closing the issue.

This is still an issue but I have resolved some of the other issues described. The server did not meet the minimum PHP version requirement. Once that was upgraded I was able to do a fresh install of WP and most things started working again.

If anyone can suggest why this simple RSS facility in the Dashboard is not working then I would really like to put it right.

Thanks,
Bill

dukejames27 – for info I’ve just tried the fix that Stef refers to above and it works a treat!
Thanks Stef!!
Bill

Stef – email sent.
Thanks,
Bill

Correction – the WordPress standard RSS feed reader also gets the order wrong ??

Stef,
The order displayed on the hanslopevillage site is very strange. It’s not in reverse order but almost random! I also display the feed on my Yahoo home page and it is in exactly the right order (same as the input) so something is changing the order somewhere!! The ‘standard’ WordPress RSS feed display maintains the correct order but the reason I don’t wnat to use it is that it embeds a link to the source of the RSS feed in the title – and that is not something I want users of the website to see. With your version it was easy to avoid this link being implemented.

Since the ‘I have an idea’ moment, I’ve moved house and not had time to try to implement anything – in fact, I’ve forgotten what my idea was ??

Bill

… I have an idea …
I’ll let you know if it works!

Stef,
Thanks for getting back to me.
I’m building the RSS feed by using Pipes to merge input from 3 Google Calendars, sorting the merged records by the date/time of the event, selecting the =next 6 events to occur and then appending the day/month values to the event title. I then pass the output into Feedburner to build the RSS records. That explains why the RSS items all have the same date/time. There may be an easier way but at least I got this one working!

Having got my RSS feed into the right format and order, what I really want is for the RSS widget not to sort them – just deliver them in the order they are in the feed. Is that possible?

By the way, I can see that your idea of changing the format to put the date at the beginning would work but I’d have to use YYMMDD format or something similar and that’s not a good way for humans to see dates – particularly in the UK where we’d normally use DDMMYY.

Your other idea of resorting the list is interesting – but not immediately obvious how I do it as the RSS date/time is assigned during the initial merge process but I’ll see if I can work out how to change these data items later on in the Pipes process.

Anyway – thanks for your help.
regards,
Bill