Blog posts appearing in my feed that shouldn't be there
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There are blog posts appearing in my feed that shouldn’t be there
Examples are :
Temporary Post Used For Theme Detection (a068e628-658a-4cd0-8e45-a43bbb8b3cae – 3bfe001a-32de-4114-a6b4-4005b770f6d7) – This is a temporary post that was not deleted. Please delete this manually.
(title unknown) – GiveCampUK 2011 – Nathan Timothy Foundation Project
Syntax Test
If you can read this post you have a problem. – <![endif]–>
I can’t find any way to remove/delete these.
Any ides ?
Blog url: http://bertcraven.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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http://bertcraven.wordpress.com/feed/
When I look at that feed in Google Reader I see the extra posts listed above.
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Since volunteers in the forum can’t help with feeds, this has been flagged for staff attention. Nice blog by the way, sorry about your phone.
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No. I can’t see them anywhere except when I add the feed to Google Reader or Google Reader Play.
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Ok, Google Reader routinely caches feed content, so it’s possible that they just checked the feed when that post was in the process of being removed.
Unfortunately, we have no control over Google Reader, so we really can’t do much besides say that the post is no longer in your feed.
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I could understand that if it was just one post but it has my most recent post dating back only a week or so as well as “bad” posts from 3rd July, 24th October 2011 and 5th March 2011. Those can’t be explained by cacheing surely
That last one is called “If you can read this post you have a problem.” That’s a pretty telling title, wouldn’t you say ?
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No, Google Reader permanetly caches feed items.
If they appear in the feed, and Google Reader sees it, it will be cached.
Like I said, the posts are definitely not in the feed itself: http://bertcraven.wordpress.com/feed/
Feel free to check it in any other feed reader, including a browser that doesn’t automatically direct to Google Reader, like Firefox or Safari.
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OK. Seems crazy though.
I guess there’s no way to tell Google to stop ?Also, for all of these posts I understand how the post got there in the first place except for the one titled “If you can read this post you have a problem.” I don’t get where that came from in the first place. Is it the result of some past error in the feed that Google has kept cached ?
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That post was probably a temporary issue on our end that Google was just lucky enough to cache for you.
You might want to contact Google about clearing the cache, but I’m not really sure if they have a way to do that.
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I’m betting not :)
I found a few posts about how you can fool google into blanking out deleted posts in it’s cache but there really doesn’t seem to be a way to get rid of them.
Thanks, Google :(
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