[duncan]

I’m getting some odd behaviour with the External Group Blogs (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/external-group-blogs/) plugin.

When I add a feed, that feed’s earliest post appears in the group with a datestamp of over 40 years ago. No subsequent posts are pulled into the group or the activity stream.

Anyone have any idea what’s going on?

Thanks in advance

[duncan]

OK, got round to fixing this, after moving to bp_external_activity… the timestamp issue has mysteriously solved itself, but to get the posts to show up on the feed i had to edit some code

this is the offending bit:

`$author = $rss_item->get_author();
if ( !$userdata = get_userdatabylogin( strtolower( $author->get_name() ) ) )
$user_id = 0;
else
$user_id = $userdata->ID;`

$author is not an object, says PHP. i conjecture this is a problem with my feed which means that $rss_item->get_author() doesn’t work, and $author is left NULL. can anyone confirm/deny this is how it works? the documentation is… terse.

anyway, i wrapped it in an if statement:

` if ($author != NULL) {
`…
`} else {
$author = “A user”; `

will this work? needless to say i am a novice.

[duncan]

a short update on the date problem – i realised 40 years ago would be consistent with a timestamp of 0. therfore, a second conjecture:
rss feeds from Blogger don’t like being chopped up into `$feed_item`.

the solution was to use the feed provided at http://blogurl.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss. Other ones don’t work.