I have installed the recent-global-comments-feed and edited my .htaccess accordingly. I installed comment-indexer and ran the sql queries successfully.
I have installed the recent-global-comments-feed and edited my .htaccess accordingly. I installed comment-indexer and ran the sql queries successfully.
If you look at your feed, you don;t have any comments in there which means $last_published_post_date_time doesn't get a time assigned to it. This bit just adds in the current time if there's no comments.
May not be the way Andrew will go (and it may not even work) but it;s probably a temp fix.
Thank you. This seems to have done the trick, indeed.
FYI: When I attempted to add the feed to my sidebar using the WordPress RSS widget, the feed could not be found, even though my reader pulls it just fine. After installing widget-recent-global-comments.php it worked using that widget.
Thanks again, I'll stay tuned for an updated version of this one.
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25th May 2009 (2 years ago)
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Internally, it says it;s Atom. WP doesn't like Atom 1.0. Not sure which version of Atom this is. Feedvalidator says it's "RSS" and nothing else so I'm a bit lost here as to what the feed actually it. (My eyes glaze over when start reading API's and I do my best not to.)
If it is Atom 1.0, wp won't deal with it and will give you an error. I had thought that error was that it couldn;t read it instead of not being found though.
One thing to try, since it appears that you;re doing a redirect here, is try the real url and see if that works.
Just noticed one minor issue with the Recent Global Comments Feed Widget too. The link assigned to the commenter's avatar redirects to the main blog home page, not to the post with the comment.
I'm assuming this should work like the Recent Global Posts widget, where the avatar links to the post. In which case this may be a bug.
For the record, we just confirmed that comments from any user with an apostrophe in their username will not be included in the Global Comments feed, nor the Recent Comments widget.
With a site all about three legged dogs, we get a lot of users with names like Catie's Mom or Fern's Dad ... these user's blog post comments were not being included in the widget or the feed. After removing the apostrophe from their Display Names, the comments now appear in both the feed and widget.
Good news is, this doesn't break the feed, only prohibit their comments from being included. I just figured this was as good a topic as any for this update, rather than starting a new one. Perhaps something to consider addressing for a future version, if addressable.
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Founder & CEO — 25th May 2009 (3 years ago) #
Thanks for the update - we'll look into it.
Comments / posts after the indexer have been installed should be included.
Keeper of the Dark Chocolate — 25th May 2009 (2 years ago) #
Open up the file for editing and look for this bit:
try changing that to:
If you look at your feed, you don;t have any comments in there which means $last_published_post_date_time doesn't get a time assigned to it. This bit just adds in the current time if there's no comments.
May not be the way Andrew will go (and it may not even work) but it;s probably a temp fix.
Hope this helps,
-drmike
Member — 25th May 2009 (2 years ago) #
Thank you. This seems to have done the trick, indeed.
FYI: When I attempted to add the feed to my sidebar using the WordPress RSS widget, the feed could not be found, even though my reader pulls it just fine. After installing widget-recent-global-comments.php it worked using that widget.
Thanks again, I'll stay tuned for an updated version of this one.
Keeper of the Dark Chocolate — 25th May 2009 (2 years ago) #
Internally, it says it;s Atom. WP doesn't like Atom 1.0. Not sure which version of Atom this is. Feedvalidator says it's "RSS" and nothing else so I'm a bit lost here as to what the feed actually it. (My eyes glaze over when start reading API's and I do my best not to.)
If it is Atom 1.0, wp won't deal with it and will give you an error. I had thought that error was that it couldn;t read it instead of not being found though.
One thing to try, since it appears that you;re doing a redirect here, is try the real url and see if that works.
http://rvblogz.com/wp-content/recent-global-comments-feed.php
Member — 26th May 2009 (2 years ago) #
Just noticed one minor issue with the Recent Global Comments Feed Widget too. The link assigned to the commenter's avatar redirects to the main blog home page, not to the post with the comment.
I'm assuming this should work like the Recent Global Posts widget, where the avatar links to the post. In which case this may be a bug.
Keeper of the Dark Chocolate — 26th May 2009 (2 years ago) #
I would think that it should redirect to the blog of avatar, not the post. At least that's what the standard recent comments wp output function does.
Member — 28th May 2009 (2 years ago) #
I would think that to be just dandy too. But all avatars next to recent comments currently redirect to the main blog.
Keeper of the Dark Chocolate — 28th May 2009 (2 years ago) #
Someone please bump this in an hour or so and I'll look this afternoon.
Member — 29th May 2009 (2 years ago) #
Bump! Better late than never, eh?
Keeper of the Dark Chocolate — 30th May 2009 (2 years ago) #
And of course I'm sitting at the coffee shop where I'm not even going to try and code here....
Erstwhile founder — 1st June 2009 (2 years ago) #
Hi Guys,
I just uploaded new versions of the feed and widget plugins.
Thanks,
Andrew
Member — 13th December 2010 (1 year ago) #
For the record, we just confirmed that comments from any user with an apostrophe in their username will not be included in the Global Comments feed, nor the Recent Comments widget.
With a site all about three legged dogs, we get a lot of users with names like Catie's Mom or Fern's Dad ... these user's blog post comments were not being included in the widget or the feed. After removing the apostrophe from their Display Names, the comments now appear in both the feed and widget.
Good news is, this doesn't break the feed, only prohibit their comments from being included. I just figured this was as good a topic as any for this update, rather than starting a new one. Perhaps something to consider addressing for a future version, if addressable.
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