Forums | Rss Feed Problem

This is the first report I've seen of a problem with the RSS feeds in stripShow. I'm looking at your site and indeed, I see that there is nothing coming up when I go to the feed link at http://www.teadrunk.net/blog — It could be something between sS and WP2.7. I'll test it out.

OK, I found the problem….

I see that in your first comic post, you have a file called contrary.jpg embedded in the actual content… that puts the image in the blog post, but doesn't make it a comic file that stripShow can use. stripShow (at least version 1.8; 2.0 will be different) requires that the comic be located in whatever folder you've set for stripShow comics (in your case, 'wp-content/stripshow_comics' although it actually seems like you want to change that to 'wp-content/comics') in whatever format you've supplied in the stripShow options — for a comic dated February 8, 2009, that would be 20090208.jpg for example.

stripShow is simply looking for the comic for February 8, 2009, but failing to find that, is instructed to 'walk back' day by day until it finds a valid strip file — it will stop after ten years, but that is apparently taking way long on your system and timing out.

The option to 'walk back' and the option to turn on or off comics in RSS will be user-selectable in 2.0 — in the meantime, if you want to keep working as you have been (embedding the comic images in your post instead of using stripShow's built-in system) you can, just comment out the second-to-last command in stripshow.php, which is:

add_filter('the_content','feed_add_strip');

Then stripShow won't try adding the strip to the feed, as you've already put it in the content.