Feedback on RSS Feed Commander

9 Responses to “Feedback on RSS Feed Commander”

1. May 30th, 2008 at 10:27 am  - Marilyn Says:

   We’ve been using FeedCommander for a few months now and love it. Unfortunately, we started getting the following errors I’ve copied below. The errors do not show up all the time, but enough to be annoying. Just to let you know, I know the feed works and validates, but it seems to have a problem pulling the information on occasion. Any ideas?

   Error: Feed failed! Causes may be (1) No data found for RSS feed http://xsessionmusic.com/wordpress/?feed=gigpress; (2) There are no items are available for this feed; (3) The RSS feed does not validate.

   Please verify that the URL http://xsessionmusic.com/wordpress/?feed=gigpress works first in your browser and that the feed passes a validator test.

2. May 30th, 2008 at 11:21 am  - Scott Says:

   Actually, 100% of the time I’ve seen that error occur, the feed source itself was down for a time.

   More often than not, you can verify this by just going to the URL itself, http://xsessionmusic.com/wordpress/?feed=gigpress and ensuring you can see a feed displaying.

   If you CAN, then an F5 refresh of the page where you have feedcommander installed will bring it back (and subsequently, you can be sure that others wouldn’t be seeing the error)

3. May 30th, 2008 at 11:25 am  - Scott Says:

   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…

4. May 30th, 2008 at 2:11 pm  - Marilyn Says:

   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!

5. June 18th, 2008 at 8:00 pm  - Marilyn Says:

   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?

6. June 18th, 2008 at 8:08 pm  - Marilyn Says:

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

   Thanks again!

7. June 23rd, 2008 at 8:25 am  - tony Says:

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

   Thanks

8. June 23rd, 2008 at 11:04 am  - Scott Says:

   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

9. June 23rd, 2008 at 1:58 pm  - tony Says:

   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

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