What the “Item (repeatable)” bit is: Its asking you to tell it the usual pattern of the things to look for – in our case, we want it to find each individual google calendar “entry” – that’s why the incantation is starting and finishing with html tags that say “entry” in them.
Most of the incantation is saying the parts of the pattern which are the same for every entry.

Of course, the different entries will have bits in them that are different for each calendar event – stuff that we care about giving the details of what the event is, e.g. “My Tea Party”, other stuff that details exactly when it is e.g. date. We want the feed43 to find those bits and save them for us – that’s what the % notation means – “find this stuff and record it for later.”

There are other bits that are also different for each calendar event – but that we don’t particularly care about – e.g. there is lots of info about the exact time that we created the event – that’s not useful – I don’t want to display the time that the idea hit me: “Oh, I’ll hold a tea party!” – its only interesting to display the time that the tea party will actually take place – so for that reason, there are parts of each entry where we want feed43 to match “any old pattern”, but not keep it. That is what the * notation means – “find this stuff but don’t do anything with it.”

If the incantation (or some alternative pattern that you make) works on the input you are putting in, then the next box will magically suddenly get populated with the stuff that feed43 found for %1, %2 etc, and it will display it for you, and just go on to the next step.

If nothing like that happened, then its not quite working and needs tweaking.

Maybe you can post up the URL (http) address of your calendar, so that we can see what the entries look like, and why its not working for you with the usual incantation,

cheers,
Helen

I’m totally stuck on Step 2b. I don’t know what to do with the “Item (repeatable) Search Pattern” section.

I really don’t know what to do in this box – I’ve put in the “incantation” because I’m clueless!

I don’t know what to do with the “Item (repeatable) Search Pattern” section.

I really don’t know what to do in this box – I’ve put in the “incantation” because I’m clueless!

However, when I enter http://feed43.com/6086580027777183.xml in the WordPress.com RSS Widget, it just spits out the URL again. There’s no options in the RSS widget for configuring anything.
espo

I’m really getting frustrated with the limitations WordPress puts on iframes. I understand the security risks, but it feels like they’re punishing the vast majority of responsible people to safeguard against a few irresponsible ones.