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Hello Teli,

Actually, I haven't received them. Now this has me worried that I'm not receiving others' e-mails if they use the contact form on the site, because I set it up to always deliver the e-mails to me...I tout it as the most reliable way to reach me (sending a message via the contact form).

If you don't mind, would you help me figure out why your messages aren't coming through? First, let me know which form you're using to try and contact me (direct link is helpful), the e-mail address you're using (feel free to PM me with it so you don't get on any spambot radar), and whether or not you received any errors when submitting the form.

I just emailed you from the forms in the WPDFI and the DF2RSS sites to see if you get them. When I did I received an automated reply, like the one that I got before and I was able to search my emails for "WPDFI" and found that it was indeed that site and that I had emailed you on April 05, 2007 and then again on April 19th, 2007. And I just figured that you are very busy and/or didn't get them.....

But they were questions about datafeeds using the WPDFI program as I was considering purchasing it and wanted to make sure of a few of my questions about it first. Needless to say that since I didn't hear back I was unsure as to if I should proceed. Sorry...

Depends on how often the merchant updates.

I guess I need to try and figure this out and would assume that it would be different for each merchant. I will do some research into this and see what I can figure out.

I think I have heard the term "Live Feeds" that automatically update. That would be really nice to have but I am thinking that this doesn't happen very often, does it?

Unfortunately, I've only used RSS2Blog a few times for other clients so cannot properly answer your question.

Thanks, not a fair question for you to try to answer....thanks anyway for trying.

I can say that WP's built-in RSS import utility will not republish an entry that has the same title. So, if the datafeed has been updated and the title of the product remains the same, WP wouldn't import it again...however, it also wouldn't update the entry with information that's changed either.

Unfortunately, you may need to contact Michelle for an answer to this question. I know on the WPDFI script, there's a setting to "overwrite" the information of previous imports, so there may be something similar in RSS2Blog.

Well, again, I'm not well versed with RSS2Blog. Also, I don't know whether it would support custom excerpt imports. If so, then you could customize your WP theme to make use of the special excerpts on the category pages.

For instance, import the products to include the images and links within the excerpt of the entry. Then create a category template that pulls the excerpt info for each post which would then link out to each individual product page.

I am thinking out loud here and know that there has to be some way to control this especially if sites that have hundreds of datafeeds need to be updated on a frequent basis. I just have to dig deeper.....to find an answer. Thanks.

Unfortunately no. When WordPress uses the RSS import, it uses the dates within the RSS feed and doesn't play nicely with future dated posts (at the time of this writing).

That is what I was thinking, just thought I would confirm it.

I hope that gets your questions answered, and if you have any others, you're welcome to ask.

~ Teli

Thanks so much for taking the time to assist as you could. I do appreciate it.

As important as datafeeds are and seem to be I personally am finding it difficult to find answers to many questions that one might have concerning them. So it seems that I will have a lot of learning curves along this path.....But I am sure that I can find what I need to know somewhere.

Thanks again!

Charlie