I think im doing someone wrong (RSS feed import)

Understanding Micro.blog
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Hi there.

I have recently set up my account and am still in the trial. I was hoping to use mciro.blog to essentially be a low(er)-fi version of my self-hosted wordpress. It is nort working and I think i have done somethign wrong or have misunderstood the menu.

This is the error:
Feed: Timeout exception Net::OpenTimeout

This is the rss im trying to import
hexdsl.com/feed/

I am adding it as a source and selecting ‘import’

I expected it to import all posts and import all future posts being something of a ‘set and forget’ setting but it is not working like that. I really want to resolve this before my trial ends, as i dont really want to subscribe if its not suitable for my needs.

thank you

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This will import future posts. You have to use the Mac app to do what you want to.

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To import prior posts from Wordpress, “You can export your WordPress posts to an XML file in your previous site’s WP Admin.” – this works with the xml or WXR file. You can then upload it by going to the Posts navigation in the side nav on the website, clicking the three dots next to your site name, and selecting “Import” as your option. That’s where you’ll see the Wordpress option to upload your current blog.

Future posts that are made on that blog and posted to that feed will then be copied via the source mechanism above.

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Thanks all! I have now got my backlog showing on my site, thanks to the export tools. However, I am still seeing the below error on my RSS feed from WordPress.

Error: request timeout

My wordpress is quite quick and I host on Hetzner, is there some setting I’m missing, to make it work properly?

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That I’m unsure about, but if I had to guess, there may be some firewall setting or block occurring that doesn’t permit the Micro.blog Linode servers to crawl your feed. Probably only @manton can look into that one.

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Thanks, ill see if I can get a copy of my RSS feed on a different server but It’s going to be very inconvenient :frowning:

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Sorry about the error. Sometimes these connection errors happen because there is some security plugin that is getting in the way, suspecting Micro.blog is up to no good because it routinely downloads the feed looking for new posts. If there is anything like that in your WordPress install or at your hosting provider, try disabling that.

Unfortunately it’s difficult to troubleshoot. On first glance I’m not seeing any problems that would cause this.

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I have very little unusual on my WP instance. I think there is a chance that WordFence security is blocking it.

Can you tell me which IP-address is used to pull the feed, so I can white list it?

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Currently there are two IPs that are used for downloading RSS feeds:

  • 198.58.124.204
  • 96.126.116.47

Another thing: although it shouldn’t matter, because you’re using WordPress, I also recommend installing the JSON Feed WordPress plugin. You can delete the feed in Sources in Micro.blog and replace it with the one at yourdomain.com/feed/json.