[SOLVED] How do I enable RSS Publishing dates?

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12 years 1 week ago #75138

Hi all :)

I am trying to have my products rss feed be sent to Twitter using TwitterFeed, however it is giving me this error:

Your feed might be empty or missing publish dates or GUIDs. A feed needs to contain publish dates or GUIDs in order to work with twitterfeed


I know the feed is not empty, so that narrows it down to 3 things:

  1. The Publishing Date
  2. The GUIDs
  3. The fact I am testing every thing on the localhost

If anyone has any ideas on how I can get this to work I would greatly appreciate it :)

Note: I am using Joomla 3 so "Social Backlinks for HikaShop" won't work :(

Thank you very much in Advance

Last edit: 12 years 3 days ago by Phreedom. Reason: [Issue SOLVED]

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12 years 6 days ago #75538

Hi,

As far as I know, the feeds created by HikaShop contain both PubDate and GUID.

For example:
demo.hikashop.com/index.php?option=com_h...format=feed&type=rss

That's a RSS feed on our demo website with the latest version and you can see there these tags.

Also, the w3c validates the RSS format:
validator.w3.org/appc/check.cgi?url=http...%3Dfeed%26type%3Drss

I looked at twitterfeed website and it seems to be an online service. If that's the case, it's normal that it doesn't work since it won't be able to get the RSS from your local website. It will only work if your website is online.

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12 years 3 days ago #76020

Thank you very much for your help - I inspected the code the other day and so the pubDate and GUID tags there, so I figured HikaShop was not to blame ;) I was also afraid that the issue was that TwitterFeed needed an online website to grab info from - So thank you for confirming my thoughts - Good news is I can move on and test TwitterFeed when the site goes live :)

Thank you Again :cheer:

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