Hi Buddy Duke,
Thanks, that solved half of the problem. I executed the sql query you provided and in a blink of an eye, all the auth_viewcats were set to 0. Thanks so much for the assist.
And now, the RSS feed for the index page did add to Google, for which I am ambivalent. I was more focused on the inclusion of RSS feeds in other pages of our website. However, now there are two problems, one left over and just a coding housekeeping issue.
1. The image still does not appear in the RSS feed. Just the text listing. That's true in the Google feed as well as the internal website RSS feed on another page.
2. I am using an external widget studio that makes some nice looking widgets. It allows for all kinds of options to include in the RSS feed display. So I did want to list the 'contributor' and the system lists two things: [example@example.com][userid]. The example@example.com is listed on every feed so that's just a coding issue, I'm sure. The [userid] is working properly.
[edit] - found the example@example.com in the RSS.php file. I deleted it. Just left it as $user_email = ""; Just checked and it didn't fix it but RSS feeds are not instantaneous. Hopefully that will solve item 2.
[edit2] - had a look in rss_item.xml and found the author_email code; deleted that from the CDATA section.
[edit3] - scanned this topic again, and I see to be having the same issue that Kurman had,
http://www.4homepages.de/forum/index.php?topic=19647.msg125000#msg125000but I checked the RSS.php file for the image title and image name fix that he said fixed his problem and I had that in there. When I completely redid this RSS MOD, I followed all the steps of the first page and then added your steps from page 2.
You did ask elsewhere in this post if there were any other mods done on the RSS.php file. The only thing I could find was this:
// Reset session mode
$site_sess->mode = $old_session_mode;
if ($cache_page_rss) {
save_cache_file($cache_id, $content, true);
}
} // end if get_cache_file()
I will PM you, hoping that is acceptable, to give you access to our website, since it is protected with aMember login.
Thanks again for your help.
- Brian