Adding a FeedLand blogroll to a Drummer blog

[scripting]

This is a place to ask questions about the blog post.

[mistersugar]

I have added a blogroll (Feedland.org, single category) to my Drummer blog and it is working well. See it at http://storian.org

[scripting]

@mistersugar -- that's beautiful! :-)

[fmcpherson]

Added as described in the blog post. I notice that blogroll renders in a different location on a individual day page, see http://oldschool.scripting.com/frank.mcpherson@gmail.com/2024/04/15.html. Notice on the day page of Scripting News that the blogroll doesn't appear at all: http://scripting.com/2024/04/15.html Is there a header attribute to pin the blogroll only to the main page? I see the same issue on Aton's Old school blog.

[scripting]

@fmcpherson -- that's an oversight on my part. the blogroll is only supposed to appear on the home page. will fix. :-)

Update: done.

[gwthompson]

Just added a blogroll to my Drummer site and it worked flawlessly. :) You can see it in action here http://oldschool.scripting.com/gwthompson@mac.com or here http://garywthompson.tech. The second url is a test I'm running on a Raspberry Pi located in my office. :)

@scripting This is very cool!! Excellent work!

[fmcpherson]

When I set a value for blogrollCategory not all of the feeds of that category are appearing in the blogroll. If you go to http://oldschool.scripting.com/frank.mcpherson@gmail.com/ you see see eight feeds in the blogroll. When you view the list in Feedland this appears and it shows 17 feeds: https://feedland.com/?username=fjmnotes&catname=blogger

I was assuming perhaps feeds not updated more than 24 hours ago were not included but feeds that have been updated in the last four hours are not appearing. For example, Bicycle For Your Mind is not appearing in the blogroll.

As a further test, I removed blogrollCategory and see that all of the feeds in my Feedland feed list do appear.

[scripting]

I took a look, and the reason that nine of the feeds aren't appearing is that we're getting info from the server that they haven't updated yet. They are being returned by the server, but the blogroll software doesn't display feeds that haven't been updated.

Now whether that's right, is another question, and I don't know the answer to that at this time. It's hard to investigate on feedland.com, it would be a lot easier on feedland.org.

Here's a list of the feeds.

https://prologuist.blogspot.com/rss.xml
https://mitchw.blog/feed.xml
https://feeds.feedburner.com/NicholasBate
https://taoofmac.com/feed
https://intellectualoid.com/feed/
http://feeds.feedburner.com/BrazenCareerist
https://bicycleforyourmind.com/feed.rss
http://kimberlyhirsh.com/feed/
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog.xml

Now there's a chance that over time they will appear to have updated and they will show up on the blogroll.

I'll keep an eye on this, and may do some more investigation. Thanks for the report.

[fmcpherson]

If it helps, I have the same configuration for feedland.org, in fact that is what I started with. I've reverted back to that, which you can see from https://frankmcpherson.blog/2024/04/18/today-i-start.html. Also, here is the URL to my blog.opml, https://drummer.land/frank.mcpherson@gmail.com/blog.opml in case

[scripting]

@fmcpherson -- thanks, that does help. and if you notice the number of items in the list changes, post a note here.

[scripting]

@fmcpherson -- I think I found the problem and fixed it. If you go to your blog's home page now, you should see all the feeds.

The problem affected everyone but me, which is why I didn't spot it until it was reported. It was also buried in a bit of code I hadn't looked into in quite some time.

Basically the only feeds you'd see were ones that both you and I are subscribed to.

Luckily I don't think this problem will affect the WordPress plugin (in development).

Thanks for your help with this Frank. You provided all the info needed to trap the problem and you did everything right, it was the software that was wrong. ;-)

[fmcpherson]

Fantastic! I do see all of the feeds. Glad I was able to help, and than you for your patience, persistence, and what you do for the community.

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