[@flowevd Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

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.

[@flowevd Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

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.

[@flowevd Member 14 years, 10 months ago]

I know this thread’s 8 months old but this would be an excellent feature. Not generating badges for other SN sites (as buddypress-badge does), but something to label users with status in the community, a bit like scout badges…

[@flowevd Member 14 years, 10 months ago]

@Boone

Thanks very much!

Your advice led me here:

https://codex.wordpress.org/I18n_for_WordPress_Developers

which helped clear up the finer points. And what that mysterious thing I kept ignorning, ‘I18n’, means…