Topic: Google reader and sitewide activity

Google reader and sitewide activity

@phaenarete0042

Member

13 years, 1 month ago

Following up on a reader complaint, I found that when someone subscribes to my Buddypress enabled site with Google Reader using the main ULR (socraticmama.com), the reader automatically subscibres them to the sitewide activity feed. So instead of just seeing out latests posts, the reader is getting all the sitewide activity and it floods their reader.

Is there any way to have our RSS feed, not our sitewide activity, be the default for Google Reader and others?

***I cut and pasted the explanation of my issue from a previous user’s post because he explained it better that I could. The problem is that I am a newbie and I can’t find the right code section to follow the advice he was given on the forum. Can someone point me to the right spot and dumb this way down for me?

Thank you

Using the WordPress 3.2.1 and Buddypress 1.5.1 with default BuddyPress theme
I am also using the multiple groups forums

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@mercime

Participant

13 years, 1 month ago

The blog’s recent blog posts feed http://socraticmama.com/feed/
@socratic42

Member

13 years, 1 month ago
Hi mercime ~ thank you

I put : http://socraticmama.com/feed/ into the Google Reader subscription box & your solution works perfectly, but it doesn’t solve the problem for those who now newly subscribe to SocraticMama. The problem is I will have to tell each new subscriber to enter http://socraticmama.com/feed/ manually into Google Reader. Is there any way to have my RSS feed, not my sitewide activity, as the automatic default for Google Reader?

Another poster had the same problem 6 months ago & a solution was provided by Mikey3D, but I don’t know how to apply the solution in my case:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/trouble-with-google-reader-and-sitewide-activity/
I can’t match it to the advice given by Mikey3D. This is because the terms ‘Blog Posts RSS Feed’ & ‘Blog Posts Atom Feed’ are not in my header.php ~ see here:
```
<html xmlns=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&quot; >

<meta http-equiv=&quot;Content-Type&quot; content=&quot;; charset=" />
<title></title>

<link rel=&quot;pingback&quot; href=&quot;" />

<?php
if ( is_singular() && bp_is_blog_page() && get_option( 'thread_comments' ) )
wp_enqueue_script( 'comment-reply' );

wp_head();
?>

<body  id="bp-default">

<div id="header">
<div id="search-bar">
<div class="padder">
<h1 id="logo"><a href=&quot;" title=""></a></h1>

<form action=&quot;" method="post" id="search-form">
<label for="search-terms" class="accessibly-hidden"></label>
<input type=&quot;text&quot; id=&quot;search-terms&quot; name=&quot;search-terms&quot; value=&quot;" />

<input type=&quot;submit&quot; name=&quot;search-submit&quot; id=&quot;search-submit&quot; value=&quot;" />

</form>

</div>
</div>

<div id="navigation">
 false, 'menu_id' => 'nav', 'theme_location' => 'primary', 'fallback_cb' => 'bp_dtheme_main_nav' ) ); ?>
</div>

</div>

<div id="container">
```
Using the WordPress 3.2.1 and Buddypress 1.5.1 with default BuddyPress theme. I am also using the multiple groups forums
@michaeljfisher

Member

13 years, 1 month ago

Bump… Hi can anybody help socratic with her problem above? [The post before this one]
Do you require more information?

Thank you

@phaenarete0042

Member

13 years, 1 month ago

Can anyone help please? Problems with Google reader displaying site wide activity. Thank you!

@michaeljfisher

Member

13 years, 1 month ago

bump

@modemlooper

Moderator

13 years, 1 month ago

Did you try and place an rss meta tag in header?

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@michaeljfisher

Member

13 years, 1 month ago

Hi @modemlooper thank you for the reply! Very important to us to get this solved

No, we haven’t. We are out of our depth. We will give it a try, but I have two questions:
1] Where do we paste that line? just above <link rel="pingback" href="” /> for example?
2] How do I set up email notifications so that I know immediately that this thread has a new comment posted?

@boonebgorges

Keymaster

13 years, 1 month ago

I’m afraid I don’t know how Google selects which RSS feed to display. It probably just picks the first one it finds. Make sure there is a line like the one that @modemlooper suggests, and make sure it appears high in header.php – immediately after the `` tag.