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I have a custom widget based off of the default "Paging" template. When I first created it the item at the top of the RSS feed it was pulling from would be displayed first. Today I noticed it's displaying the last item from the feed first. I've seen this happen before but it went away if I reset the feed url but it's not doing it this time.
Is there something I'm missing that I need to set in order to make sure it consistently displays the first item in the feed when the widget is first loaded?
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First, make sure your widget is actually set to show "most recent". Then I would look at the actual xml behind the feed. Look to see if the publisher is including pubdates. If they are not inserting pubdates in the xml (or are not properly formatting them) our system will assign the date/time that we first find that post as its published date. Also keep in mind that a post's "position" on a feed means absolutely nothing. It's all about pubdate, and if they don't supply that, then all sorts of unexpected things can happen.
Choosing well written feeds is an important step in having solidly reliable widgets. The site Feed Validator is a great resource:
Dan Borrego
NewsGator Technologies,
Technical Support, Syndication Services
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Last Login: 3/13/2008 9:34:11 AM
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That would be the problem. Thank you!
Still have much learning to do on this stuff.
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