RSS does not update with edit to posts
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My site’s RSS only shows the original post publication. It does not update to include edits I make. Not to very old posts, not to the most recent post. It doesn’t matter if I make a ninja edit or add it a day or more later. Edits never show. Not even if I go back to the “already read” item in my feeder app; it’s still the same original post without edits.
I tried to refresh the feed by changing “Admin>>Settings>>Reading: Syndication feed shows the most recent X items”, but that didn’t fix it either. Refreshing the feed in my reader app does not update it either. I gave it >24 hours to update for every change I made, including removing and readding the feed to my reader app. Nothing helped.
Does this auto updating to the RSS only come with a premium account?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there. As far as I know, the RSS feed doesn’t change if you update a post, only if you publish a new post, but I’ll tag this for staff to confirm.
There is no difference between the feeds and feed settings for free or upgraded sites, so upgrading to premium won’t change this.
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Hi there,
Can you give me a link to a post that you edited, where don’t see the edits in your RSS feed? It will also help if you can describe those edits you made, so I know what to look for.
Also, did you check your RSS feed directly at https://insertsymbolshere.wordpress.com/feed/ or only in your RSS feed reader? Some feed reader apps save the first version of a post in your feed, and so the app may not update that post even if your site’s RSS feed is updated.
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It’s not my feed reader because I have other blogs that do update with edits. None of my posts update with edits, not recent ones nor my first ones from years ago.
Edits I make are prefaced with the date, eg “20130910: wordswords”.
An old post with lots of edits (the whole part listing the “sections” is an edit that doesn’t show in the feed): https://insertsymbolshere.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/shush/
A new post with a few edits that don’t show in the feed either: https://insertsymbolshere.wordpress.com/2015/09/05/guess-the-theme-yet/
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It’s not my feed reader because I have other blogs that do update with edits. None of my posts update with edits, not recent ones nor my first ones from years ago.
Edits I make are prefaced with the date, eg “20130910: wordswords”.
An old post with lots of edits (the whole part listing the “sections” is an edit that doesn’t show in the feed): https://insertsymbolshere.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/shush/
A new post with a few edits that don’t show in the feed either: https://insertsymbolshere.wordpress.com/2015/09/05/guess-the-theme-yet/
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Do you understand that where the post URL is displayed in your RSS Feed is on the original date of publication of the post?
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Hi there,
Your RSS feed currently only shows your 10 most recent items, so it doesn’t include older posts like this one:
When you edit an older post like that, it won’t reappear in the feed because the post’s publish date hasn’t changed and so it’s too old to appear in the feed.
I checked this other post you mentioned:
And I don’t see any differences between that post and the post’s content in your RSS feed here: https://insertsymbolshere.wordpress.com/feed/
Are there particular edits for that post that you aren’t seeing in your RSS feed there?
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Something changed–my edits are all there now, including in the older posts.
The feed used to go all the way back to my first post, but now it only shows the last ten like it’s supposed to. Maybe that’s what was breaking it.
It’s fixed now, thanks.
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