RSS feed - Author

[bigmix]

Hi all,

In the RSS[2.0] of my blog, Author tag has wierd nospam@example.com address.

There must be a way to get rid of it and show just the plain name instead. Before I start diggin' into the code, could somebody point me to what am I doing wrong?

From the plugins I have Spamprotector but as I could notice it is used for comments mostly and there's nothing related to the emails of the blog authors. Syndication plugin has option "Show email addresses" set to NO and fields "managingDirector" and "webMaster" left blank. Even if I set the "Show email addresses" to YES - nothing changes.


Regards,
BM.

[garvinhicking]

The RSS specification requires an email address for the author name. So we need to use a dummy address if you want to hide your address.

You already found the option for this in the Syndication plugin. Setting "Show email addresses" to "True" should really enabled your RSS feed to show the email addresses. You know that RSS feeds are cached and thus will not show you changes immediately? For that you either need to write a new entry, or clear your browsers cache and restart the borwser, or append a "&nocache=true" to the URL of rss.php (i.e. http://blog/rss.php?version=2.0&nocache=true).

Additionally the spamblock plugin has the option "'Hide E-Mail addresses of commenting users" which can also bypass the showing of the mail.

Best regards,
Garvin

[bigmix]

The RSS specification requires an email address for the author name.

I understood that, thanks.

I guess I will show my email address in this case because nospam looks a bit odd to me.

About the cache of the browser - I'll have to give it a try, although I tried to get the content in standalone RSS reader and nospam was still there. I suppose I'll just add an entry and see what happens.

Thanks.


Regards,
BM.