If you’re reading this post at randomguy3.wordpress.com, the title of this post will display as “Planetary Exploration”. If you’re reading it at planetkde.org, the title of this post (and, indeed, every other post by me) will be “randomguy3″.
You may have noticed this with several other planetary bloggers, by and large people who use WordPress. But not everyone who uses WordPress has this issue – Wade Olson, for one, gets his post titles displayed on Planet KDE.
The common theme, as far as I can see, is avatars. If you have an avatar, a <media:content> tag is placed in each item of the feed linking to it, with a <media:title> subtag. The Planet appears to pick this up (the title for the avatar) and use it as the title for the feed item (ie: the post).
I can’t check this for sure, though, since WordPress won’t let you remove your avatar, only change it.
I suspect using /feed/atom as the feed url (rather than /feed) will fix the issue as well, since that doesn’t make any mention of the avatar.
Tags: planetkde
29th December 2007 at 2:32 am |
Cool that you found that out. Unfortunately I didn’t receive any reply from clee when I mailed him about the problem.
29th December 2007 at 1:22 pm |
Well, I’ve asked clee to change my feed to only get my “KDE” category (so I can post unrelated things without spamming the Planet), so I decided to ask him to change it to the atom feed at the same time. We’ll see if that works.
29th December 2007 at 2:13 pm |
The problem is already well known to the Planet developers, and a fix is available:
http://lists.planetplanet.org/archives/devel/2007-November/001693.html
Unfortunately, the current planet admin refused to include that fix.
29th December 2007 at 6:23 pm |
FYI: I don’t have set any avatar yet, and the problem is worse: if my post contains images, PlanetKDE will use the title of the latest images as the post title
30th December 2007 at 4:32 pm |
Aurélien: For that reason I repeat the blog post title in the title of the first image in each of my posts.