The mod is working fine except it don't post the latest feed it only posts the second to the last post from the sites... How would i configure it to post the latest post from the other sites?
{Make sure,
first, that you are saying in the feed config, that you want more than 1 post to be pulled each time... The system will not double-post -- it keeps a MD5 hash in the MySQL table of every post to make sure it doesn't double post -- so even if you say post 10 each time, if 9 of them have been posted before, it will post only the new 1, because there is no MD5 match to previous posts -- all my feeds say pull 15 posts -- I think that's the max}
You're not alone on that one. I originally figured it was my complexity in scraping feeds, etc. But it turns out I was wrong -- certain feeds, just as a straight RSS feed into the SMF Mod -- also dropped an item.... the symptom was that the missing item would get posted when the feed got it's "next" item -- but of course, that item was missing until the next one showed up, etc, etc....
I can't give you an exact solution... and it certainly depends on your personal desire to get into the alternative "hack" (and it is a HUGE hack)...
But I've taken to Yahoo Pipes to do pre-processing of my RSS feeds before giving it to the SMF Mod.
For those feeds that are dropping a post, the Yahoo Pipes tool lets me do a "reverse" of the feed - therefore what was the TOP of the feed is now the BOTTOM - and the drop no longer is an issue to me -- no, it's not a fix
Granted, there's a learning curve for yahoo pipes. And the other issue is that the RSS SMF Mod doesn't like the & character in a URL link (Yahoo pipes RSS links always have a &) --so you also have to create a Tinyurl.com link to your Yahoo pipe...
so it ends up being... RSS -> Yahoo Pipe -> TinyURL --- and the TinyURL is what goes in your feed configuration.
Now, of course, I'm hacking a fix to the symptom, instead of finding the original problem and fixing that -- but that's what my skill set is, and Pipes has my intrigue because of all the other stuff I can do with it. I'm now "scraping" web pages of interest, and converting them to RSS feeds, that the SMF mod can pull in... So otherwise, I wouldn't "just" be using Yahoo pipes to 'fix' this issue -- but in the case of my feeds, it was easy enough to toss in a pipe operative saying "reverse" -- and volia, the problem of the missing post went away for me.
