Although the full content of the posts is available in the website feed, until today I had been limiting the content (to just the post’s summary) that would be retrieved by UniversalFeedParser, which is the user agent string the PlanetPlanet software uses. This was done so that any buttons or ads do not appear in…
This is just a quick notice that during the last five days there was a problem with the website feeds. The web server returned a 500 Internal Server Error to almost all requests for /feed/ URLs. Also, there was a big increase of the server’s CPU load behind the scenes, which was caused by php-cgi…
During the last weekend, I made some changes to the website’s feeds. It seems that, after 4 years of blogging, I have finally made up my mind about what is needed and what is unnecessary regarding the syndicated content on G-Loaded.
In the previous post, I had written a few things about my intention to make the full content and not just the summaries of the posts available through the feeds (RSS or Atom). This was a hard decision as I’ve always considered feeds as a medium for notifying readers that the content of the website…
Syndicated content has almost become the standard way of distributing web content nowadays. WordPress can deliver its content in various different feed formats –RSS 2.0, Atom 1.0, RDF, RSS 0.92– and can generate feeds for both the published posts -grouped by time, category, tag, author etc- and the comments that have been submitted by readers.…
Since WordPress v2.5, it is no longer possible to use the <!–more–> tag within a post in order to define an excerpt which will be used on both the web and feeds. Now, WordPress uses this tag to split a post for the web only, while the feeds can contain either the full-text or an…
Recently, I had written a post about WordPress 2.2.1 always delivering full content with the author feeds, ignoring the publisher’s settings. I deliberately had not disclosed much information about the issue, not because it was security related, but due to the fact that it could make the content leechers’ job easier and cleaner. Now, that…
What happens when you are completely out of free time, you are told that the web application that powers your website has a serious security issue, but as soon as you upgrade you discover that something weird is going on with the site feeds? In such situations I can only be sure about one thing:…
I’ve made some progress with the cElementTree Python module. After reading the available documentation and the RSS 2.0 specification, I was able to write a very simplistic RSS 2.0 feed generator in order to demonstrate the usage of this module. There is no such example in the documentation, so this might be useful to someone.
This article describes how to quickly convert the default Atom 0.3 that WordPress v1.5.2 produces to the Atom 1.0 Specification. It also provides some brief info about enhancing the Atom feed with RSS extension modules.