RSS “Display item author if available” is not working.
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The RSS widget has the option “Display item author if available?”. I selected this option, but the author does not show up.
I checked the XML source of the RSS feed, and there are author elements. Why doesn’t it work?
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It shows on the feed coming out of wordpress: http://restructure.wordpress.com/feed/ . It’s in grey right after the post title.
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Interesting. The author shows up in Safari 3, but not in Firefox at the feed coming out of wordpress. Regardless, it is on the feed coming out of wordpress. I suspect there is something different in Firefox’s Live Bookmarks that keeps the author from displaying. As far as other feed readers such as feedburner, yahoo, etc., you would have to ask them what’s up if the author doesn’t show.
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Sorry if I am not clear. I am talking about the RSS widget that takes in a foreign RSS feed.
http://restructure.wordpress.com/
Scroll down to the bottom of the left column. There is a RSS feed with the name “Recent Canadian of Colour post”. The feedburner feed is here, and the feed xml is here.
The author name does not show up, but I selected the options to show the date and author. Is it supposed to work?
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If you go here, http://www.chineseinvancouver.ca/2009/03/chinas-version-of-nationalism/ , which is the post in the RSS widget, the post does not show an author. Also, if you go to http://www.chineseinvancouver.ca/feed/rss/ , which is the feed coming out of that site, it does not show the author. If the author is not shown in the feed, feed readers, and RSS widgets cannot show the author. In other words, they honor that setting NOT to show the author.
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Then Google is pulling the author out even though the original feed is set up NOT to show the author. My feeling is that Google is NOT honoring the settings in the feed as it comes out of the chineseinvancouver.ca feed.
Don’t know what to tell you. The feed coming out of chineseinvancouver is set up NOT to show the author in the feed and Google is ignoring that.
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I found out that I am NOT using the http://www.chineseinvancouver.ca/feed/rss/ feed (RSS 0.92) but rather http://www.chineseinvancouver.ca/feed/ feed (RSS 2.0), and it DOES show the author.
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That is, http://www.chineseinvancouver.ca/feed/ is set up to show the author, which you can see by viewing the XML source.
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