Wordpress Rss Feed Problem

[amerlin]

Hi, you have a problem with feed from my blogs:

http://amerlin.keantex.com/feed/
http://www.dotnettortona.net/feed/

If can help you, they are two wordpress blog.

Thanks!

[SeanKilleen]

I think I know what the issue is here.

Symptoms

The symptoms as far as I can tell are:

• These blogs do not appear in the list of overall blogs
• These blogs do appear in the search for blogs
• When going to the page for the specific blogs on the site, it does not appear to load any posts.

Cause

The issue appears to be in https://github.com/daveaglick/discoverdotnet/blob/master/config.wyam#L207:

Where((doc, ctx) => doc.ContainsKey("FeedItems") && doc.String("Language") == "English"),

The language specified for these sites is Italian, so I don't believe Discover .NET (currently) supports extracting the feed items. Because the blogs have no found posts, they don't show up in the overall list of blogs, though one can still search for them.

@daveaglick can you confirm this?

Possible Remedies

Once Dave confirms the cause, I think there are a few remedies we could apply from a Discover .NET perspective -- I'd like to see if Dave thinks any of these are viable:

• Start indexing posts for non-English languages: I'm not sure what previously prevented this, but it might be warranted to see if this can be accomplished now.
• Allow for zero-post blogs that are non-English to be shown in the list of blogs: If Discover .NET currently experiences hiccups when parsing that content, it may still be nice to allow the blogs to show up in the overall list of blogs if they are non-English blogs. This will allow them to be shown at least.

Thoughts?

[daveaglick]

Great catch @SeanKilleen and definitly unintended behavior. I think you nailed the root cause. You're correct that non-English blogs are currently excluded from downloading posts. The intent was to ensure that posts on the home page were consistently the same language (otherwise it would get confusing and noisy). The unintended consiquence is that by excluding those posts we end up thinking the blog is empty and don't include it anywhere.

I think the following would be the ideal solution:

• Start indexing non-English posts - we want them to show up in the post list for that blog and for the blog to show up in the list of blogs (and not be considered empty)
• Instead of just not downloading non-English posts, exclude them from the homepage and aggregate feeds some other way by filtering on the language property
• Eventually it would be nice to provide alternate laugage aggregate feeds and the option to swap the homepage posts lists to another language (and maybe remember that option per-user)