rssCloud testing – Day 2

Based on the day 1 test results, I decided to update my test app to check for my rssCloud website feed and start running it again. Next, I made two new posts and used the ping form at Andrew Shell’s rssCloud server site to inform that server of updates. I was able to see that the server acknowledged the pings, and my test app was notified. For the second test post, I removed the port number from Andrew Shell’s rssCloud server ping URL in the Settings/Writing menu. However, I did not see any evidence that the rssCloud server received a ping from my WordPress site.

Based on the current results, it seems that my setting of the WordPress Update Settings area in the Settings/Writing is not resulting in pinging the rssCloud server site. If anyone out there has some ideas on how to check this, I would appreciate it (my initial Google searches did not turn up anything helpful).

rssCloud testing – Day 1

I created a test WordPress site and added the rssCloud WordPress plugin. I then added a ping to Andrew Shell’s rssCloud server (http://rpc.rsscloud.io:5337/ping/) to the Update Services text field in the Writing subsection of the Settings section of the Dashboard. I created a test post, did not see any ping evidence in the rssCloud server log. I then updated the ping URL to remove the trailing slash and created another test post, but again did not see anything in the log.

I also looked at the RSS feeds being properly notified on the rssCloud server (HN News and Dave Winer linkblog) and their <cloud> element is pointing to Andrew Shell’s server. Perhaps my next step will be to modify the WordPress plugin to use that server…we shall see…

Getting started again with rssCloud

Andrew Shell contacted me recently to mention that he has his rssCloud server online – nice! rssCloud uses the <cloud> element in RSS 2.0 to connect a loosely-coupled Twitter-like network of people and 140-character status messages. I went through my archives (looks like I last looked at this in 2015 and 2016) and notes, and found that I had a copy of a script (Github Gist link) Dave Winer wrote as a test app in 2015. I uploaded it to my current server, modified it to point to my current domain, and found that it was able to register with the rssCloud server and get updates on the feed listed in the test app – excellent! I plan to review the rssCloud Walkthrough document to guide my next steps.

Resources:

https://gist.github.com/scripting/dbb07695736de85b3882 – Dave Winer test app for Andrew Shell server

https://blog.andrewshell.org/2020-02/18/updating-rsscloud-server/ – Update on rssCloud server

http://rpc.rsscloud.io:5337/ – Running instance of server

https://blog.josephscott.org/2009/09/07/rsscloud-for-wordpress/ – Info on rssCloud plugin for WordPress

https://wordpress.org/plugins/rsscloud/ – Current plugin page for rssCloud WordPress plugin

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/rsscloud/ – Current SVN repo for rssCloud WordPress plugin

http://home.rsscloud.co/ – New home page for rssCloud info

http://walkthrough.rsscloud.co/ – Implementers Guide to rssCloud

https://github.com/rsscloud/rsscloud-server – rssCloud server source code by Andrew Shell

https://andysylvester.com/2015/11/22/learning-something-new-can-be-hard/ – My 2015 post on rssCloud work

http://notes.andysylvester.com/2016/08/07/exploringRsscloudAndPubsubhubbub.html – My 2016 post on rssCloud work