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forum RSS feed - wordpress widget - not up to date

    • Posted 4 years ago #

    hi,
    I have a strange problem, at http://www.criticalmass.at/ you have a point in the sidebar wich is called "Neues aus dem Forum". this is an standard wordpress rss widget with the rss feed of the bbpress forum: http://www.criticalmass.at/forum/rss/

    the feed itself is working fine, also the other rss widgets, but for the forum feed in the widget, it doesn't show the newest topics/posts.

    wordpress 2.5 & bbpress 0.9.0.1

    • Posted 4 years ago #

    just upgraded to 0.9.0.2, and it's working again. not sure if it was the bbpress update or the 2.5.1 wordpress update.

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    ok, the problem is suddenly back. the rss feed isn't updating in the widget anymore.

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    Did you try validating the feed
    http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.criticalmass.at%2Fforum%2Frss%2F

    The feed URL returns a 404 Not found Error if you check the headers:
    http://www.criticalmass.at/forum/rss/

    This sounds like WordPress trying to handle the /forum/ URL and sending a 404 error when the page actually exists. There was a plugin to take care of this sort of thing, I think...

    http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-wordpress-mu-or-not-leads-to-404-errors-but-pages-still-load#post-13156

    I think that plugin will resolve the fact that the feed actually returns a 404 error, then I bet the widget will pull the feed just fine. Report back please...

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    thanks chris for the help, that did the job. since the rss feed was displaying fine in FF, I didn't thought about validating it.

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    ok, this problem is now back, after I updated to wp 2.7 and bbpress 0.9.0.3.

    now my feed doesn't validate because of the date:

    Sorry

    This feed does not validate.

    *

    line 18, column 39: pubDate must be an RFC-822 date-time: Fr, 02 Jan 2009 10:57:20 +0000 (35 occurrences) [help]

    <pubDate>Fr, 02 Jan 2009 10:57:20 +0000</pubDate></blockqoute>

    and the rss widget doesn't update again with new forum postings.

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    You need to use the Alpha build if you're trying to integrate between WP 2.7 and BB.

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    @Ipstenu, that's true. But integration working or not doesn't have any bearing on whether or not the date in the RSS feed is incorrectly formatted, does it?

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    and I already use 1.0-alpha-4.1 of the bbPress Integration plugin.

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    chrishajer, I have no idea if RSS change between things, but y'know, it's habit. I don't like to spend time debugging something that's doesn't mesh. There are a lot of possibilities to miss-match.

    And pulk, either you have bbpress 0.9.x or you have bbpress 1.0-alpha-x. The plugin is not the same as using bbPress core 1.0-alpha. In your bb-config.php, what is your BBDB_CHARSET defined as?

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    I just validated the feed for one of the pages for this forum, and it came back as valid. The data format looks the same to me. I noticed in your date, there is a character missing from "Friday":

    <pubDate>Fr, 02 Jan 2009 10:57:20 +0000</pubDate></blockqoute>

    This date format is correct for RFC 822 from a Linux command line:


    [~/ch/bbpress]$ date -R
    Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:12:42 -0500

    So, I think there is just some problem with your date function, missing the "i" in Friday, or you typed incorrectly instead of pasting, and the missing "i" is just a typo.

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    thanks chris, this is my problem.

    in my rss2.php in my themes folder I have the following line:
    <pubDate><?php bb_post_time('D, d M Y H:i:s +0000'); ?></pubDate>

    this is giving me this result:
    <pubDate>Mo, 05 Jan 2009 21:58:55 +0000</pubDate>

    but in the same file, the line:
    <pubDate><?php echo gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s +0000'); ?></pubDate>

    is working fine. output:
    <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:24:47 +0000</pubDate>

    I have: define('BBDB_CHARSET', 'utf8'); in my bb-config.

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    Sounds like there's a problem with bb_post_time, or with the way the date is being stored in the database. What version of PHP and what version of MySQL are you using? Maybe there's a bug?

    Also, are you using a language file?

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    Interesting, same problem here with Drupal:
    http://drupal.org/node/232433

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    In the German locale the weekday symbol for friday is ‘Fr’ instead of English locale which is ‘Fri’.

    http://rel.me/2008/07/22/date-format-rfc82285010361123asctimeiso8601unicode35tr35-6/

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