CUNY Academic Commons

I meant that the XML appears to be correct, but when feed is placed in widget the order is reversed and the oldest, then penultimate oldest, etc. display rather than newest/latest.

So this posting:
http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/graphic-activism-panel-lesbian-posters-zines-1970-today/
Should not appear here:
http://ldv1.gc.cuny.edu/~sklein/libtest/
but this posting:
http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/introduction-pressforward-afternoon/
Should appear instead here:
http://ldv1.gc.cuny.edu/~sklein/libtest/

Makes sense?

Yes, I think it makes sense. But if the RSS feed is appearing in the correct order, then I'm not sure that this is a Commons issue, but is instead related to whatever tool you're using to build the widget on your website. It appears to be WordPress. Is it WordPress's default RSS widget?

Yes, the default WP RSS widget?

Also, as noted previously, works correctly in the general newsfeed on the left.
Something about the events's RSS?

What I'm seeing on http://ldv1.gc.cuny.edu/~sklein/libtest/ is the following three links:

http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/graphic-activism-panel-lesbian-posters-zines-1970-today/
http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/research-mals-students-reprise/
http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/radical-keywords-reference-librarianship/

If I'm reading them correctly, they are the three events with the latest post dates, listed in reverse chronological order.

This is in line with the way the RSS widget works. It shows the "latest" posts from a feed. Usually, RSS feed items have dates in the past. That means that the widget will show the most recent posts. But because your items are dated in the future, the widget is showing the three items that have the latest timestamps. So, as I understand it, the widget and the feed are both working as expected.

Perhaps what you are looking for is a way to take an RSS feed and display future items from that feed, in ascending chronological order. So the first item will be the first one after right now. I don't believe the WordPress RSS widget is built to do this. Perhaps there's another one in the wordpress.org repository that will do it.

Just to be clear, what I am saying is I would like, similar to all RSS feeds, last posted item to appear in first/on top of an RSS widget.

Changeset for internal reference: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/4635942764dac110f448b8fd201ed3fc712b84e6

Thanks for your patience, support and quick turnaround.

Is there a way to extract and include the event date in the RSS?
If not, we will just start making it part of the title of each event.

Thanks so much.

I've just added a modification to the Commons so that the event start date is now included in the Events feed. See http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/events/feed/?orderby=post_date&order=desc - the element is <cunyAcademicCommons:eventStart>.

I don't think there's a way to modify the default WordPress feed to show additional fields like this. You can do it by implementing your own version of the widget (and, critically, the WP function wp_widget_rss_output()), and getting the additional item element like this: $event_start = $item->get_item_tags( 'cunyAcademicCommons', 'eventDate' );

Putting the event date into the event title is a low-fi way to accomplish what you're looking to do.

Thanks, Boone. Appreciate.

Seems like it is broken now.

http://ldv1.gc.cuny.edu/~sklein/libtest/

See the widget:
RSS Error: This XML document is invalid, likely due to invalid characters. XML error: Unknown at line 193, column 1

I was not seeing the same error as you, but I did see that the feed was not passing validation due to the incorrect declaration of a custom namespace. This should now be fixed (and the Events widget at http://ldv1.gc.cuny.edu/~sklein/libtest/ appears to be displaying items).

Thank you.

Please see:
http://ldv1.gc.cuny.edu/~sklein/libtest/

Generating this error:
An error has occurred, which probably means the feed is down. Try again later.

Using:
http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/events/feed/?orderby=post_date&order=desc

Stephen - the feed of upcoming events is empty, and the widget that you're using to display the feed items apparently doesn't handle this fact very gracefully.

Thanks, Boone. We will create a few fake stub entries so that the fees is always populated. I will play and get back to you. Thank you.

The fake ones show a feed, but not sure if optimal, because they show dates for non-existent events:
https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/our-library-calendar/
https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/library-events-feed/

Would love to either have the option to redirect for these specific URLs to possibly http://library.gc.cuny.edu
but since I do not have access to .htaccess on the Commons or the header of the HTML, I am unsure how to redirect.

Or to have the option to have a different type of post in the Events plugin that allows for the display of non-event orientated postings, but populates the feed.

If neither of these are viable, do you have a suggestion?

Thank you!

It's possible to request a feed that includes more than one post type. Here's a feed that includes both upcoming events and past posts: https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/feed/?post_type[]=tribe_events&post_type[]=post&orderby=post_date&order=desc I'm not certain whether this suits your needs.

If you want to redirect a specific page to a URL, activate the Redirection plugin, already available on the Commons.

great. I will share with the group. Thank you.

I installed the Events plugin on another site and curious how to construct the RSS URL?

http://ldv1.gc.cuny.edu/~sklein/blog/events/feed/?orderby=post_date&order=desc
is invalid.
so is:
http://ldv1.gc.cuny.edu/~sklein/blog/events/feed/
http://ldv1.gc.cuny.edu/~sklein/blog/events/rss

Although, not hosted on the Commons, can you help?

Thanks,
Stephen

Hi Stephen - orderby=post_date for RSS feeds is only available on the Commons, thanks to a customization that I wrote. I'm unable to support the use of this customization outside the Commons, but here it is if you want to play with it: https://gist.github.com/boonebgorges/5b5d6090684b2741c4ded0cca2a629b1

I'm not sure why http://ldv1.gc.cuny.edu/~sklein/blog/events/feed/ is not working. Perhaps you have to refresh your Permalinks? I'd recommend reaching out to Tribe for support.

Yes, it was a permalink issue. Thank you.