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Questions about Time/Date and RSS Setup

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Maybe I’m just too picky, but I Want Things the Way I Want Them.  If something should work and it doesn’t I get a little upset, especially when I put time, money and effort into something.  I don’t think it is asking too much to have a RSS Feed or the Time/Date on a post to work.

I have always had my RSS Feed set to show a FULL Feed on feedburner or any other service that someone subscribes to.  I realize that not everyone who reads my articles has the time to physically click on my site.  That is why they use RSS, so they can view different posts from different Bloggers all in one place.

I have set the Feeds on WP to show the FULL Post, but on FeedBurner it only gives a partial teaser to the Subscriber.  I checked the Source Code and it shows that I am feeding only a partial post on ALL RSS Feeds.  I tried to re-enter the information on WP and Save etc, and still I am sending a Partial.  I have no idea how to fix this problem at this point.

The other problem I am having is with the Time/Date on posts.  As before I have always had that information on each post, just because I like it that way.  I checked in the Edit Themes and the Manage Files Templates and as far as I can tell the Time/Date is supposed to show in the Foot of Each Post right before Posted by Joe.

I did find out that Part of the date had !– date stuff – in brackets, and removed the hidden date brackets to make it viewable.  Still nothing shows.  I don’t know enough about CSS to know if anything is missing, or if the calls for the information are right to go any further without help.

Maybe I’m just bing picky, or hardheaded, but I Want Things the Way I Want Them, especially if they are already there.  These are Not Plug-Ins, they are Part of WordPress.

Update:  I found a way to show the Date and Time on Posts and Comments.

In order to have the date and time show on the Whole of the “Index” page, go into the Presentation Editor, Main Index and look for the “date” call-up and Delete the !– “date stuff” — enclosure (Do Not Delete the”Date Stuff” just the Enclosure) including the hyphens and the less than/greater than brackets.  Then, Either Delete (lessthan)span(greaterthan) and the closure (/span) or Enclose the spans with (lessthan)!– (/)span –>

Make sure you do the same thing on the Page editor so that when an individual page is called up, the Time/Date info will show.

To include Time/Date in the Comments field, just bring up the Comments Editor in the same Theme Editor and Delete the (lessthan)!– and the –> from the date field.  Do Not remove anything BUT the Enclosures.

It works, just look at the bottom of the post. I hope I was clear enough, if not please say so and I will try to explain it a little better.

June 30th, 2006 at 01:15pm | Posted by Joe | Attitude, Rants | 12 reader remarks | Print This Post

Settling In

While I am settling into my New Domain, I will be posting various aspects of the progress and highlight some of the changes I am making. 

Part of the process in moving from one  platform to another is finding out where things go.  You will probably notice small changes, some of which look out of place.

For those of you who voted on which picture I should use on the Old Blog, I have added them All to the Random Photos Section.  Now, it really doesn’t matter, everyone gets the one they voted for.

I am very satisfied with Akismet so far, it has filtered out a lot of Comment Spam (you should see what some of them say).

DavidC mentioned about how the footer had a link that really didn’t belong there, I changed that to the Blog Title, with a Quote temporarily.  That may change in the future.

He also told me about problems viewing my Blog in FireFox.  I have no idea what it looks like (I use IE6) or how to fix that. 

I have also added a little bit about myself on the About Page.  I even included a picture that a Special Blogger Friend likes.  And I put a Contact Link at the Top of the Sidebar.  If you need to contact me for anything, or want to suggest a future article, whatever, you can E-Mail me using that Link.

Also, with the “Sand” template, the Links had different categories, which are still on the Main Links page, but will not show up on the New Template.  I really liked the way that looked, so I need to find a way to do that with this template.

Another thing that has me baffled is the Pre-Posting feature.  I know that it is supposed to work with WordPress, but I’m afraid to try it from the experiences I have had with Blogger and trying to Pre-Post.  I have written the Good Reads post already for Sunday, and I used the Edit timestamp to pre-date it, but I don’t know if I should hit Publish.  When I did that on Blogger, the article would post right then with a Future date.

Ok, here’s where I ask for any ideas that could help with some of the features and placement of different plug-ins etc.

Thanks,

Joe

June 29th, 2006 at 01:54pm | Posted by Joe | Basics, Blogging, Suggestions | 8 reader remarks | Print This Post

Banning Comment Spam

Although I don’t really like the fact of having to approve comments, I did change the settings on Comment Moderation.   I also Activated Akismet.

Reason being, I got no less than TEN (10) Spam Comments within about 2 minutes of each other this  morning.  I never really had a problem with Comment Spam while on Blogger, as you probably already  know, I had comments set to use Verification (that you were human) in order to post a comment.

Since using WordPress, I have not had a problem (it has only been a few days), and I used no Blocking tools or plug-ins for commenting.  Until now…  From now on, the First Comment will have to be approved by me.  If you have already made a comment, there shouldn’t be a problem.

I won’t apologize for having to resort to using some type of Moderation for comments, mainly because most of you who have comments available on your site already know the problems with Spam.  I just hope it doesn’t deter the newcomers to the community from being involved in the conversation.

As a side note, when I tried to activate the Akismet Plug-in, it refused to work saying I needed an API Key.  Akismet was included when I uploaded WordPress to the Host.  There was no API Key, nor information on how to get one.  I used the API from one of my Blogs that happen to be hosted on WordPress.com and it worked for activation.  Otherwise, I would still be having a Big Problem with Spam.

Update:

I have turned the Moderation Off the First Comment.  Since Akismet seems to be working pretty well (it has caught some spam already) I don’t think I need the moderation right now.  It is my hope that I don’t need it in the future either.

June 28th, 2006 at 01:00pm | Posted by Joe | Blogging, Spam, Suggestions | 7 reader remarks | Print This Post