Thanks for looking into that, Ken-ichi!

Look's like Lora Leigh's feed doesn't use the <title> element, which we require, so it was failing silently. I just made some changes that should show these kinds of errors when importing, and I made it so it will use the first line of the post body as the title if no title exists. Should go out in the next release.

I'm not sure either...the only thing I could think of was that the most recent post of hers is really long because she posted excerpts from her 2 most recent books.

Isis, what I did to fix Laurell's blog doesn't seem to be working for Lora Leigh's blog. I'm not sure what the problem is.

I'm still not having any luck with Lora Leigh's blog. I've cleared it and tried again, it shows them on the preview, but when I do the create thing, everything disappears.

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Thanks, Ken-ichi. That's good to know.

And, yes, things are showing up much better with the Atom feed. Thanks again.

M'Lady, you can edit an existing blog feed URL while editing the author's profile data. There should be "edit external blog feed URL" link on http://www.goodreads.com/author/edit/955... Sorry it's kind of squirreled away there.

Ken-ichi, Here's the Atom feed for Laurell K. Hamilton's blog, if you want to switch it. I don't see a way for me to change it myself.

http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/index.p...

Hi folks,

So I believe what's happening is that we're having trouble extracting the dates from some feeds, and when a publication date isn't set on an author blog post, it gets stored as a draft and is invisible to everyone but the author. I'll try and update things so we understand the date formats used by the feeds you guys cited here. It also looks like we're displaying a total post count in the header of the blog box on the author's profile instead of the published count, so I'll fix that too.

Generally, you should try to find an Atom feed, as they tend to be easier for us to parse. Also, secret tip: if you just plug in the URL of the blog, like http://blogs.herald.com/dave_barrys_blog... or http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/, we actually try and extract a feed address from the header of that HTML file, so sometimes that can actually be a better way of finding the feed address. If you do that for Dave Barry's blog, we pull out his Atom feed, instead of the RDF address which is currently stored for him. We included that in anticipation of people just pasting in blog URLs if they didn't know what a feed was, but it works for feed-savvy people too.

I had the same problem with Lora Leigh. The preview was fine, but when I clicked create, all the posts disappeared. I tried to edit the feed - clear it and start over - but when I do that, I just get an error message.

I just discovered that as well (Laurell K. Hamiltons blog) :) I tried to edit the blog feed url with the atom one instead of rss but it was still the same.

I had a similar issue adding Laurell K. Hamilton's blog. I was assuming the feed wouldn't update until a new blog was posted.

I was thinking of adding this to Goodreads Librarians but since it's more of a technical problem, I assume, I figured I should write it here.

I've been adding a few external authors blog to different authors and so far it's been going well. However, I did encounter one problem with one of the authors blog:

Dave Berry - http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/624...

He has a blog at this site: http://blogs.herald.com/dave_barrys_blog...

The syndication adress: http://blogs.herald.com/dave_barrys_blog...

Now I entered that into the 'create' and the preview looked good. It had some minor bugs as some of the titles had html (italics etc) but I didn't think it'd be a big deal. Either way, when I then hit 'create' again, the blog was created but there were no posts all of the sudden.

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/624...

Even though there were posts before and if you go to his profile, beside the 'blog' it says "10 posts".