I noticed a while ago that Textpattern RSS feeds often seem to mark themselves as “updated” seemingly for no reason. I worked out that it does this when a new comment is posted. This is really bloody annoying because it means that someone posting a comment to an article that I’ve already read via RSS pushes all the RSS articles to the top of my feed, ahead of stuff I actually haven’t read.
To fix this is newer versions of Textpattern:
There are two configuration options for this. In preferences > advanced, under the Publish heading:
Show comment count in feeds? no/yes
This determines whether or not the comment count is included in the article title in XML feeds (‘My article [4]’).New comment means site updated? no/yes
This controls whether or not to signal a feed update when a comment is posted.
To fix it in older versions of Textpattern, you will need to modify the PHP file directly, as the advanced preferences tab is not in older versions of the admin system.
Look for admin_config.php which is in /textpattern/lib. Make sure you see:
‘comment_means_site_updated’ => 0,
You might also want to change ‘show_comment_count_in_feed’ to 0 for good measure.
While you’re at it, you might want to also change the following:
‘include_email_atom’ => 0,
‘never_display_email’ => 1,
I did anyway. I don’t really want my email address in my feeds, and I don’t want people who post comments to get spammed!
P.S. If you subscribe to my feed and notice that this is still happening, please tell me! I’d be a dummy if I didn’t actually fix it a year ago like I thought I did.
Still happening – I just got Belgium Observations parts II and III as new (again).
Ahh, that would be because I updated them both! It doesnt look like there is a way to stop a previously published article as showing up if you change it and save it.
This post makes no sense to me at all, but I still have a cool comment!
So I was on flickr checking out some cool photos, and I ran into this neat composite sequence photo of a kid jumping off a dock into water.
There was one comment on the photo. It was by animoller.
I then thought HOLY F! What are the odds that I freakin know who that is!?
Sure enough, it was you. I dont know if anyone else thinks this is highly unlikely, but flickr is FREAKING HUGE. Not to mention that it was a completely random photo.
Actually, that photo was a random photo to me as well I happened to be searching for photos tagged with Wellington, the city I lived in when I was in New Zealand.
The internet isnt as big as you think!
Funnily enough, I was looking through my archives a few weeks ago and thought, I wonder what happened to that Coluch guy? He used to post all the time.
Yeah I know! Mostly because I have far much less time to gallivant around the internet lately. But my new flickr account brought me back to you and yer fun musings!
It’s a small wired world indeed!