benharker

BenB - above php code should definitely fix that problem, the file contains the small edit i made to get around that be aware that any wordpress updates you apply may write-over the fix, so keep a copy just in case

here's my current edited feed-rss2.php file all you have to do is check it against your own, or, copy/paste, add it into your wordpress install and replace your current one! *may not work on newer wordpress installs, if anyone wants to confirm this, that'd be awesome hope it helps, let me know how you get on!

Hey Ben, nice name dude! i'll have a look at the relevant php file at my end, it's been a long time since i've even looked at it! [in a good way - it's been happily running itself all year!!] will post up what i find

similar - our back end is eDir/novell, so staff authenticate via an LDAP plugin on the wordpress install, letting the users log in with their existing creds was a make or break xibo itself is running from a virtual suse box unfortunately the clients have to be windows [had no luck with the 'nix client]... if it weren't for that i'd go for a totally linux setup...

awesome! nice to know i was barking up the right tree for once with my wordpress idea. currently we're allowing all staff to log in to the wordpress as contributors, heads of departments can then check spelling and publish the posts - the categories that staff post under define which xibo layout they're displayed on - ie: 1 screen in foyer, for ten minutes it's the music department 'channel', the next ten minutes it's the PE channel, and it just cycles through just one public facing screen as of yet, but there's hopefully a few more in the works for different departments xibo's a great bit of software and i'll happily recommend it to anyone in IT

do it mate! it'll be worth it when it's all up and running. would love to hear how you get on

We had OD/AD running beautifully with our edir / novell backend in 08-09 but our teaching staff couldn't understand the concept that the "student Movies folder isn't actually on this machine? what do you mean, i can see it...!" as a result, my shiny new xserve was assaulted daily by gigabyte after gigabyte of poorly shot DV footage for a whole year no matter how many training sessions i did with the staff. Long story short is that after running fine for six months and then falling to bits once video-based coursework kicked in, I had to return my setup to its default of local logins [what i'd tried to get away from in taking over the job]. I've stuck at local logons as it's what the staff are used to now, they're A-level teachers and it's very hard to get them to adjust their teaching methods past 2005, in fact they downright refuse... My current setup is local logins all the way, with mounted SMB user shares; the clients each rsync their local data [footage] into the teacher's machine before shutdown each night, the teachers macs then rsync their data up to a departmental 'server' [repurposed G4 powermac usually...] and then these departmentals rsync theirs up to main server, and from there to the tape backup. All automated, simple local logins, fast performance, no slowdowns, and the most levels of failover i've ever worked with in IT! now all I have to do is design a blend of the locally stored / rsync backed-up footage, with the OD/AD logins... Our mac network may not behave the way my novell/windows/integration-crazy manager would like, and iLife is most definitely not designed for network use, at least not by 150 machines at once, but this setup gives my kids the same performance they're used to at home, they trust it, and I trust it! Unix, I love it, there are ALWAYS options and different ways to do things.

Hi all, i got it sorted in the end, so if anyone's been having any similar problems regarding xibo, wordpress, and rss, here's how I got it working... the problem originates from the wordpress install - head to your web root folder - in my case [under SLES] /srv/www/htdocs/ and copy a backup of all the wordpress files... cp -r * wordpress/ ~/Desktop/Backup/wordpress_bkp once that's done, you only need to edit one file in particular... vi /srv/www/htdocs/wordpress/wp-includes/feed-rss2.php it's a pretty short bit of php code that looks a little something like this... <?php if (get_option('rss_use_excerpt')) : ?> <?php else : ?> <?php if ( strlen( $post->post_content ) > 0 ) : ?> <?php else : ?> <?php endif; ?> <?php endif; ?> notice how the reference to contains the_content_feed? that's a slight hack, it places the entire post into the description/excerpt that Xibo asks for... Don't worry about the content:encoded chunk, you don't need to change it since you're only going to use the which already contains all the data. that's the bit I changed to get the RSS from wordpress displaying full feeds that just pipe themselves happily into Xibo... hope this might help someone out there! oh and always keep backups!

Hi all, first post here. I've been working at putting together a free digital signage solution for the college I work at, Xibo is what I've gone with as it's free and pretty scaleable. I have a virtual linux server running on our back end that runs the Xibo service and a Wordpress install that authenticates through to our eDirectory backend, that all works just great! The idea is, to set up the cycle of screens, the groups, the templates & timings by myself - and then have them all drag news in via the wordpress RSS feeds. This way my staff shouldn't [!!] bother me every single day - all they have to do is post their news either via email or via the wordpress site itself. [to keep it as 'hands-off' as possible for all involved!] even THAT is working just fine - there is just ONE more thing that I need to hammer down before I can release this baby out of testing... the RSS feeds being published by wordpress are being cut short - by the looks of it, thanks to the 'content:encoded' tag. Has anyone attempted a similar setup using wordpress and xibo? and if so, how did you get around the length-of-RSS problem...? I attempted an initial test using posterous, but obviously this throws an externally-reachable blog into the mix, and I'd rather keep this on-site! ...really hope someone can help!! oh and, merry xmas all Benny.