Editing RSS Feeds

By JesseCannon on Mar 29, 2009 at 9:34 AM 5 Vote 0 Votes

Hi, we have the problem that ocassionaly we need to edit posts in our RSS feed. How would we go about doing this in Movable Type?

Reported on Movable Type 4.2

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Mike T | March 29, 2009 3:28 PM | Reply

By editing the posts in the Movable Type CMS. The RSS feed is generated by Movable Type from your entries.
JesseCannon | March 29, 2009 3:54 PM | Reply

I get that but I still see entries I have erased in my RSS feed. I need to know how to erase those
- Su replied to JesseCannon | March 29, 2009 8:46 PM | Reply
  What exactly are you calling your "RSS feed?" There are two most likely possibilities for what you're talking about, one of which is what Mike is getting into, and the other of which is wrong:
  
  The actual file on the server which is being generated by your template. If you still see the edited/deleted posts there, then the template isn't rebuilding and we can continue.
  
  The display in your feed reader. If this is the case, then that means the reader has already fetched and stored the feed, including the old post, and it's now out of Movable Type's hands(or any other CMS, for that matter).
Mike T | March 29, 2009 4:22 PM | Reply

Sounds like your RSS feed isn't rebuilding then. Check the publishing setting on that archive template. If it isn't dynamic, static or publish queue, then that's your problem.
- Su replied to Mike T | March 29, 2009 8:48 PM | Reply
  
  This doesn't make sense. If the template isn't rebuilding, then the post to be deleted wouldn't have shown up in the first place. I think Jesse is trying to remove items from the end client. See response above for clarification(hopefully).