Feed listing all events on top

[Christopher]

Can I prevent the feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/environmentalheadlines/ClzV from listing all the events at the top? Cuz when I add my feed to another site, all that shows up are the events, and I’d like for the news items to show (events if they’re posted in order of the news items would be okay)

[Brook]

Howdy cjzurcher,

By default Events items are sort by pubdate, the same as blog items. That means if you add an event today, even if that event takes place in the distant past or future, it will showup with today as the pubdate. If tomorrow you add a blog post, then that blog post will show up first, and the event second. Is that what you are experiencing? If not, have you made any modifications to the plugin that might be affecting it here?

What sort order do you want your feed items to have? Do you want them to be sorted by Publish Date, or something else?

Let me know please. Cheers!

– Brook

[Christopher]

Hi, thank you for responding quickly. I would like all events and blogs posts to appear in the news feed according to publication date. As it is, events that I posted months ago are still showing up in the news feed before blog posts i post today.

I believe those same events have already appeared in the news feed that is sent out each day at 11 a.m. because I usually take a good look at my news feed.

But the events are still being listed first at the feed URL I gave you and if I put that URL into a widget on another site, all I get are the top 5 events where I would prefer to have the most recent blog posts show up.

I’m not sure what changes I may have made. I think the only real changes I made were to the HTML that appears on top of the calendar page and on the bottom.

Thanks again.

[Brook]

Thanks for the extra into cjzurcher!

So basically it is clear that something is changing the <pubDate> RSS field to use the event Start date instead of the pub date. This is not normal.

First, we can double check that this is not a bug. If you go to this event, click “Edit Event” (if you are logged in), what does the Publish Date field box show? Example of the box. Does it show something like “Sat, 06 Sep 2014 10:00:00”? If so, then change the date to the date you actually published this item.

If the Publish Date field shows that it is from the past, and not the future, then we need to test if there is a conflict. These instruction walk you through testing for a conflict:

Could you try temporarily activating the default Twenty Thirteen theme, and seeing if the issue persists.

If disabling the theme fixes it, we have narrowed the issue down to a theme conflict. Do you have any theme overrides for the Events Calendar? If so could you try disabling them by renaming your [themename]/tribe-events/ folder to ‘tribe-events-bak’. Did that fix it?

If the issue persists in the default Twenty Thirteen theme, then we have a different set of debugging steps. Please keep the Twenty Thirteen theme enabled, and also disable any plugins other than the ones from Modern Tribe to see if that fixes it. If it does, please try reenabling the plugins one at a time until the issue resurfaces. When it does resurface, can you let me know which plugin caused that to happen?

If none of the above fixed the issue then there is one last thing we can try. You say you are not sure if you have modified the plugins. Have you ever seen this tutorial? We need to be 100% clear on this, because if you have modified the plugins a modification could easily be causing this.

Pardon the length of this post. I just wanted to layout all of the possible testing instructions for you, so you do not have to wait on responses from me. Hopefully one of the initial tests will help us find the issue!

Does that all make sense? Did that help fix or isolate the cause? Please let me know. Cheers!

– Brook

[Christopher]

Thanks!!! I’ll try all that stuff soon. Just wanted to let you know I got your info. Thank you so much. I tried the 2013 but that didnt’ do anything. I’ll try plug-ins again.

It’s a part-time thing for me, so will try to get to it later today or soon. — Chris.

[Brook]

Ahh thank you for the update cjzurcher. I will be around, so whenever you get to it let me know the result or hit me up with questions. Have a great day!

– Brook

[Brook]

Since this thread has gone for a spell without any updates I am going to archive it. Should you need further assistance though please do not hesitate to open a new topic. Cheers!

– Brook

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