Comments on: Design the perfect Atom feed for WordPress

By: GNot

GNot — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:35:42 +0000

I hadn’t noticed that the html type was available from the bloginfo() function. Thanks.

By: Ahmad Gharbeia

Ahmad Gharbeia — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 01:19:37 +0000

In modifications starting from line 20 (of wp-atom.php v.1.5.2):

if you replace type="text/html" with the function call type="", then make sure that the blog’s actual content-type is always present, if it ever gets changed, instead of hard coding it.

(posting again with escaped code, was stripped)

By: Boris

Boris — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 08:15:47 +0000

Thanks Raoul, it works now!
While trying myself I escaped the ‘T’ and somehow lost the ‘H’… grrr…
Now WP 2.0.2 seems to be completely valid.

By: Gnot

Gnot — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 03:07:51 +0000

Hi Boris, You are right. The references of the form: mysql2date('Y-m-dTH:i:sZ' ... should be: mysql2date('Y-m-dTH:i:s' ... T and Z need to be escaped, otherwise they are translated to the current timezone and the difference from UTC time in seconds respectively. These are not needed because we use the UTC time in the timestamp. I wrote this article in WP 1.5.2 and I am pretty sure it showed the backslashes correctly inside the pre HTML tags. Now I need to put 2 backslashes, so that one is shown in the article. WP really pisses me off sometimes... or this was wrong from the beginning and neither I nor any other reader had noticed it. ;-) Thanks for pointing this out!

By: Boris

Boris — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:17:28 +0000

Thanks for this little tutorial, I’m just on my way to get my WordPress Atom Feed to 1.0. But I have a problem to get my time stamp (in ) valid.

If I use it as comes with Your code, the Feed Validator at W3C declares the date-time expression as invalid according to RFC-3339.

The given code mysql2date('Y-m-dTH:i:sZ' ... produces this date-time expression in my feed:

2006-03-27CEST21:03:107200

I tried to get around with the help of the validator’s help (ehm…) in some ways, but I’m rather confused now… Maybe You have some idea?

By: Gnot

Gnot — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 02:40:08 +0000

Tomjack: Hello, thanks for your good words, but let’s try to keep comments on-topic and things in-tact. You may use my email address if your comment is just a “hello” message. Thanks in advance for your understanding :-)

By: Tomjack

Tomjack — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 00:20:18 +0000

hello, nice blog

By: Tomjack

Tomjack — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:22:09 +0000

Hi There… Interesting blog :-)

By: George

George — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 20:24:11 +0000

Thanks for the info Raoul, good job! – George

By: Gnot

Gnot — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 19:34:47 +0000

The code above was edited. I removed the "xhtml" type from the rights element too, just to be on the safe side. George, thanks for your feedback. UPDATE [December 9th, 2005] In the above code only the following elements are set to type "xhtml": - subtitle : subelement of the feed element - summary : subelement of the entry element - content : subelement of the entry element This should not produce any problems with Google or with any other feed reader or engine or bot. At least, I haven't encountered any. The problem George indicated in the previous comment does not exist any more. The Google blogsearch lists the titles of my posts correctly.