Ugh… have been trying to get this post teaser working over the last few days (which, if you are viewing this from the Comscare blog aggregator, you can see is working since you only see a fraction of the post now).  Couldn’t work out for the life of me why it wasn’t working, so I was running through the sourecode for the plugin, making little modifications here and there to no avail.

Finally, I managed to track it down to an external source (everything in the plugin checked out fine and was returning the correct value(s).  So, I started looking through the other plugins’ sourecode, specifically ones that may modify the way the post is displayed.  Was looking through the sourcecode to the feed aggregator and found a reference to a couple of functions that saved the feed content before it is run through all the other wordpress/plugin formatting filters and restored it afterwards.  It also had a comment by it saying something along the lines “It is assumed all aggregated feeds will already be in an output-ready format so to make sure it isn’t mangled by wordpress, save the content temporarily before any filters are applied and restore after.”

Was just about to make some manual edits and thought “Hmmm, hold on a second…” went into the plugin’s settings in the wordpress administration page and there it was in a drop down box “Protect feeds from wordpress filters/Do not protect feeds from wordpress filters” *facepalm*  Well, at least it works now .

Also, while I was messing around with the blog I noticed I had a couple comments from mates but I hadn’t been notified by email.  Turns out Google Mail was identifying it as spam (sorry guys!), so I created a Google Mail filter to protect email I get from my blog… shouldn’t have that issue anymore.

Just a word of warning to CWolf (who is hosted on same server), you may want to create a filter for your blog in Google Mail .