The story at the top of this page is displayed via RSS feed from another site. So far, so good.

However, before setting up the feed, I had published a story at that site on hurricane supplies, not realizing that it would show up on the feed to this blog, where it is clearly off topic.

But I had also published the two blog-related stories that I wanted to use here, and I didn’t want to duplicate that content. What to do?

As an experiment, I tried editing the blog story (the other one is still being processed) after the feed was displayed here, and I deleted the off-topic story. I also added keywords in WordPress, since they don’t come across in the feed—and it worked!

I suspect that the hurricane story will show up again when the next cron job refreshes the feed, but at least I can correct the problem. I could even set the cron jobs very far apart…or maybe turn them off, and keep things as they are till the next time i place a story.

Hmmmm. Time for another experiment?

As you can see, my RSS experiment worked. I was able to edit the stories after the feed displayed them on this site. That meant I could delete the hurricane story without disrupting the feed. So all is well.

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

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