Feed Troubleshooting

Most auto-posting problems are not caused by the posting tool at all — they start in the feed, and they are invisible until something posts twice or stops posting entirely. This tag collects diagnostic guides for exactly those situations. You will find explanations of the feed elements that decide what counts as a new item, the caching layers that quietly serve stale copies, the encoding faults that mangle titles, and the status codes a feed returns when something upstream has broken. Each guide is written to be read while something is going wrong, with the likely causes ordered by how often they turn out to be responsible. The aim is to let you find the real fault quickly instead of changing settings at random.

How to Debug an RSS Feed with curl: Headers, Redirects, XML

Updated: 2026-10-01

Short answer: When an RSS feed works in your browser but fails in a reader or an auto-posting tool, use curl to see what a serv...

Relative URLs in RSS Feeds: Why Links and Images Break

Updated: 2026-09-30

Short answer: A relative URL such as /blog/my-post/ or ../images/photo.jpg only works inside your own website, because the brow...

Django RSS Feeds: Set Up the Syndication Framework

Updated: 2026-09-29

Short answer: Django includes a syndication framework, django.contrib.syndication, that turns a short Python class into a valid...

Full-Text vs Excerpt RSS Feeds: Which One Actually Works Better for Auto-Posting?

Updated: 2026-09-28

Every RSS feed makes a quiet decision about how much of each post to expose: the full article body, or just a title and a short...

RSS Feed Order and Backdated Posts: What Happens When Auto-Posting Sees Them

Updated: 2026-09-29

Most of the time, an RSS feed behaves exactly the way you'd expect: newest post first, in the order things were actually publis...

RSS Feed Caching Explained: Why Your Auto-Posted Content Sometimes Lags

Updated: 2026-09-27

This is one of the more frustrating troubleshooting situations in RSS auto-posting precisely because every individual piece of ...

RSS Feed Broken Image Links: What Happens When Your Auto-Posted Image URL 404s

Updated: 2026-09-27

An auto-posting tool grabs the image URL out of your RSS feed, hands it to Facebook, Instagram, or Pinterest, and trusts that i...

Time Zones and Daylight Saving in RSS Auto-Posting

Updated: 2026-09-27

Twice a year, a predictable wave of confusion arrives. Automated posts that had been landing at eight in the morning start land...

pubDate vs lastBuildDate: Which RSS Timestamp Decides When You Get Posted

Updated: 2026-09-27

Two problems account for most of the confusion people have with automated posting. Either an article that was published weeks a...

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