Comments on: The DFE News Harvester Plugin

By: rhydayric

rhydayric — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:05:23 +0000

Thanks!

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:23:04 +0000

How or where do I define the number of characters or words to show in the title of the feed? It looks like it cuts off the title at some point.

By: Thomas Belknap

Thomas Belknap — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:08:47 +0000

@Christopher: thanks for the question. The data that you’re entering into the fields is meta data. Therefore, to get it to display you’ll want to use get_post_meta:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Custom_Fields
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_meta

You’ll want to use the meta value link instead of the the_permalink version:

$link = get_post_meta($post, 'link_url', TRUE);
$link_text = get_post_meta($post, 'link_text', TRUE);
$subtitle = get_post_meta($post, 'subtitle', TRUE);
?>

By: Christopher Phillips

Christopher Phillips — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:55:04 +0000

Perhaps I do not understand how the plugin is supposed to work, but here is what I am experiencing:
Added feeds, all worked as advertised. Load feeds, get list of articles. Check box. Edit title as desired. Publish article. New article shows up in posts again as advertised. No content appears, only title. Title links back to itself. The only thing appearing in the content pane are the words “Added via DFE News Harvester.”

Running WPMU 2.8.1 and DFENH version 0.8

By: vestel ebys

vestel ebys — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:03:47 +0000

thanks a lot

By: ijed

ijed — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:59:51 +0000

I think I figured it out, it seems to be working and the problem is most likely to do with the theme I selected.

Thanks

By: ijed

ijed — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:52:32 +0000

Hi,
I’m new to WP so apologies if this is a basic question, but how do I use the plugin?

I downloaded it to my plugin folder, activated it then went to the tools section, added some cnn feeds and it kept saying that no feed has been configured.

Help!

thanks

By: Thomas Belknap

Thomas Belknap — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:49:02 +0000

Gary and Batts: please download the plugin again from WP and tell me if that fixes the problem. Looks like there were a few calls to update_site_option I missed. Funny that it wouldn’t just bomb out on us, but there it is.

Thanks to both of you for helping me out by reporting the bugs!

By: gary

gary — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:35:14 +0000

great idea but I’m having same problem as batts:

information missing or gives me a blank page

By: Thomas Belknap

Thomas Belknap — Sun, 31 May 2009 14:01:47 +0000

Hmmm. . . Can you send along some screenshots of your problem? Thank you.