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`.
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
$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.
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…