Figured this out, mostly. The Wordpress RSS feed doesn't have an "author" tag so a nil value is returned. Not important, I'll leave it out. Changed the format attribute to "%A, %B %d, &G" and got a nicely formatted date string.
Working fine for anyone else interested in using it. On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Marshal Linfoot <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to add recent postings from a Wordpress blog onto a page in my > Radiant site using the feed_reader extension. Everything installs without > error (Paul Dix's feedzirra gem and dependencies + the feed_reader > extension), and it displays some of the feed results correctly, but > <r:author /> is empty and <r:date /> produces "undefined method `strftime' > for nil:NilClass". I don't see any errors in the production log. > > Testing this on Radiant 0.9.1 with the following code in the page: > > <r:feed:entries:each url="http://blog.octopusgardenyoga.com/rss"; > limit="5"> > <div class="feed-entry"> > <h2><r:link /></h2> > <div class="meta">by <r:author /> on <r:date format="%Y-%m-%d"/></div> > <div class="summary"><r:summary /></div> > </div> > </r:feed:entries:each> > > The docs for feed_reader say it has been tested on 0.7.1 (old!!) but there > aren't any special db/assets requirements, other than the feedzirra gem (and > dependencies), so I figure it should work on 0.9.1 as well. > > Any thoughts/ideas for getting this to work? > -- > marshal > -- marshal
