Comments on: Feedback on RSS Feed Commander

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:13:32 +0000

Thanks, glad you like it.

Yeah, I know what you mean, but wit hthe free version, what you’d need to make it “work” is an RSS mashup tool, to make one feed, then you can use Feedcommander to display it.
Yahoo Pipes is one, but there are several out there…

I actually do have plans to make this a mashup tool too, but not likely any time really soon.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:38:38 +0000

Hi, great, easy to use product. Do you know if there is a specific way to combine a few rss feed sources in one line while utilizing the same attributes? I tried using the javascript version and using src=”http://feed1.xml&feed2.xml”. I’m trying to get the “add rss feed to any site” advertisement to continue to show up but not after each separate feed. Does that make sense? Keep up the good work.
Thanks, Chris

By: Scott Hendison

Scott Hendison — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:12:35 +0000

As far as I know, no, if it’s not feeding the date/time, then Feedcommander can only displays what is “fed”, and can’t extract information that’s not there.

Perhaps though, (since I can’t program anything to save my life), I’ll ask Heather (our main programmer) to look at this, and see if there might be a way to add that as a feature.

In the meantime, here is how to add dates to your own WordPress RSS feed and at that point, it would appear in Feedcommander

By: tony

tony — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:58:06 +0000

Thanks for the reply. I’m not sure I explained the question correctly.

When I post a RSS feed to yahoo for example, it states the time of the item. For instance “1 hour ago”, “5 hours ago”, “3 days ago” etc. When I use the generated php code that information doesn’t appear. I notice there is a pubDate option in the RSS spec. Can this be retrieved from the feed? I guess then some php code would be needed to add this info to the output?

Thanks,
Tony

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:04:13 +0000

Thanks, and I’m glad you like it.

As far as I know the only way to get the date in the feed would be to manually placed the date in the posts themselves, either in the title or the first sentence or two and have it display via RSS.

Perhaps, there is a way in your content management system to make the date feed appropriately with each post, but that’s going to vary system to system

By: tony

tony — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:25:40 +0000

Great product! How can I add the publication date to the items?

Thanks

By: Marilyn

Marilyn — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:08:26 +0000

Sorry for the double post, but you can ignore my last post. I was able to correct my error.

Thanks again!

By: Marilyn

Marilyn — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:00:08 +0000

Hi again!

I was wondering, is there a way to “clear out” the feed feed commander is pulling from? We deleted a post, but it’s still showing up in feed commander. Is there a way to remove that one post or reset the feed somehow?

By: Marilyn

Marilyn — Fri, 30 May 2008 22:11:22 +0000

Thank you so very much for your quick responses. At least I know it wasn’t your server having problems or a problem with the feedcommander code itself. Thanks again!

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:25:18 +0000

Ok, that’s not quite 100% true, because ANY breakdown in uptime or communication between where you have feedcommander code running or where the feed is hosted can cause this error – OR, on my server too, so if feedcommander.com were to be down, then yes, you’d have that error, but I’ve had no issues to speak of…