November 27, 2007
Getting Picked Up By Feed Readers’ Problems
Posted by Madhava Gosh under News, Ramblings or WhateverGetting Picked Up By Feed Readers’ Problems
I realize I have a lot of readers through the feed reader Planet ISKCON.
For some reason feeds it takes from WordPress.com (which includes mine and several others) suddenly a couple of weeks ago started not using the post title but either the url of the originating site of the post or the title of a jpg if one was included.
Normally I am very happy with WordPress.com as you can schedule posts and it has other bells and whistles I like but, despite reporting this in both the user Forums and to Support, it hasn’t been corrected.
So for the meantime, I will include the title in the text for PI readers.
I feel the need for this because I have the illusion that I sometimes have clever titles that are essential for setting up the text portion of the post. Today’s title is not a case in point.
At New Vrindaban Bloggers there was a different problem — the title would show but not the text of the post. There I use the WordPress software with a plugin to collect the feeds, but have now updated the plugin and it works fine.
Better actually. It is now no longer mandatory to use a Chron job to get it to update. That had been a major hurdle when I first set it up and I was blocked for weeks on it until Manesh from Florida passed through New Vrindaban and solved it for me.
November 30, 2007 at 7:55 am
Yes I have been having the same problem - now my posts have stopped appearing on feed readers altogether…oh well.
November 30, 2007 at 9:51 am
I checked Planet ISKCON and see you aren’t listed in the sidebar as a contributor. I wrote Sita Pati and gave him your site info. Is that the feed reader you were referring to?
That may be an unrelated problem. If it is other readers, you may try to point it out to WordPress support, if you can catch them open.
I went and checked Planet ISKCON and you are no longer listed their as a contributor. I emailed Sita Pati and pointed this out. That would be a different problem.
Sita Pati has made a patch for Planet ISKCON so it is catching my post and title and that of other WordPress blogs correctly now.