I set up an RSS Feed to link with Facebook about a month ago but got out of my depth when I realised I wouldn’t be able to easily add images. I abandoned the feed until this week when I joined Bloglovin’. I had originally created 3 items in the RSS Feed actions panel and when I sent the address to Bloglovin’ they were able to display these three posts. However, I then added more items to the list and none of the new posts are showing up. When I contacted Bloglovin’ for help they told me that although the feed was valid it was not working correctly - this doesn’t give me a lot to go on! Any help of suggestions, please?
The first place to look in cases like this is http://feedvalidator.org That will give you a canonical (if fairly opaque and technical) reason why your feed isn’t working. If it passes you with flying colors, you may have a different issue, such as your server not serving up a different etag time stamp when you change the content of your feed. That’s out of your control, but not out of your hosting provider’s. So what exactly are you doing to update your feed?
Walter
On Jul 16, 2013, at 9:03 AM, C Haugh wrote:
I set up an RSS Feed to link with Facebook about a month ago but got out of my depth when I realised I wouldn’t be able to easily add images. I abandoned the feed until this week when I joined Bloglovin’. I had originally created 3 items in the RSS Feed actions panel and when I sent the address to Bloglovin’ they were able to display these three posts. However, I then added more items to the list and none of the new posts are showing up. When I contacted Bloglovin’ for help they told me that although the feed was valid it was not working correctly - this doesn’t give me a lot to go on! Any help of suggestions, please?
The feed validator said my feed is valid but also mentioned the ‘self reference doesnt match the document location’ I read the associated help but don’t understand it. I am updating the feed by adding items to the RSS Feed Action panel. Originally, I had detailed 3 Titles, Decriptions etc and this was put up on Bloglovin’ without a problem. But when i went back to add more items its not working as far as Bloglovin is concerned. When i view the contents of the .xml file it looks like it’s all there. Really dont know where to start with solving it. I also contacted Go Daddy about the problem but just got a stock response referring to ‘my error’ and suggestion to send a screenshot but not of anything in particular!?
Sorry, I replied on the go! Didn’t mean to give that impression.
What’s happened is somewhere along the line I have ended up creating two .xml files in my root folder. I tried both on Bloglovin’ one works fine, the other I’m told doesn’t. Don’t know why. The feed that does work is no longer a file in my Freeway Site Folder. I only discovered it worked by making a small spelling change through Go Daddy’s File Manager which was then reflected on Bloglovin. I’m now assuming I can copy that file back into my Freeway file - is that right?
However, I was also wondering if I continue to make my feed updates thru Go Daddy that I might be able to add in the html code that would generate images to go along with my blog updates! I had a look around today and thought it could be possible but didn’t test it yet. Am I barking up the wrong tree?
I know what has happened here. Freeway has lost track of the original output file, and so has created another one (most likely named rssa.xml or rss1.xml). The simple fix to this is to delete all the XML files in your local Site Folder (on your Mac) publish again, and then upload again. The rssa.xml file will be deleted from your server, and only the rss.xml file will remain. This problem may repeat again in the future, so it is worth keeping an eye on what’s in your Site Folder locally to ensure that duplicates have not crept in. If they do, you’ll be able to fix this again by deleting the duplicate and the original.
Walter
On Jul 17, 2013, at 2:25 PM, C Haugh wrote:
Sorry, I replied on the go! Didn’t mean to give that impression.
What’s happened is somewhere along the line I have ended up creating two .xml files in my root folder. I tried both on Bloglovin’ one works fine, the other I’m told doesn’t. Don’t know why. The feed that does work is no longer a file in my Freeway Site Folder. I only discovered it worked by making a small spelling change through Go Daddy’s File Manager which was then reflected on Bloglovin. I’m now assuming I can copy that file back into my Freeway file - is that right?
However, I was also wondering if I continue to make my feed updates thru Go Daddy that I might be able to add in the html code that would generate images to go along with my blog updates! I had a look around today and thought it could be possible but didn’t test it yet. Am I barking up the wrong tree?