Blog titles not parsing

[Sam Ruby]

Gordon Hodgson wrote:
> I'm still having a problem with Venus where half my blog titles aren't  
> parsing, if I don;t explicitly specify them. I can;t work out what it  
> is.

I'm not certain I understand the question.  The "classic fancy" template 
provided with Venus isn't meant to pick up the titles, but could be made 
to do so simply by changing channel_name to channel_title in the 
template itself.

In the config.ini below, the names are all commented out (i.e., the 
lines start with a hash mark).

- Sam Ruby

> The test site is here:
> http://www.greenfeed.org.uk/feeds2/
> 
> The subscriptions list source code is here:
> <h2>Subscriptions</h2>
> <ul>
> <li>
> <a href="http://www.adopteddomain.com/blog/atom.xml"  
> title="subscribe"><img src="images/feed-icon-10x10.png" alt="(feed)"></ 
> a> <a href="http://www.adopteddomain.com/blog/" title="Adopted Domain  
> Feed"></a>
> </li>
> <li>
> <a href="http://www.adrianramsay.org.uk/blogfeed.rss"  
> title="subscribe"><img src="images/feed-icon-10x10.png" alt="(feed)"></ 
> a> <a href="http://www.adrianramsay.org.uk/blogfeed.rss.html"  
> title="Adrian Ramsay’s Blog"></a>
> </li>
> <li>
> <a href="http://www.adrianramsay.org.uk/newsfeed.rss"  
> title="subscribe"><img src="images/feed-icon-10x10.png" alt="(feed)"></ 
> a> <a href="http://www.adrianramsay.org.uk/newsfeed.rss.html"  
> title="News from Adrian Ramsay"></a>
> 
> </li>
> <li>
> <a href="http://aleddilwynfisher.wordpress.com/feed/"  
> title="subscribe"><img src="images/feed-icon-10x10.png" alt="(feed)"></ 
> a> <a href="http://aleddilwynfisher.wordpress.com" title="Aled Dilwyn  
> Fisher’s Blog"></a>
> </li>
> <li>
> <a href="http://www.readmyday.co.uk/pub/readmydayuk/andydag/__rss__/andydag.rss 
> " title="subscribe"><img src="images/feed-icon-10x10.png"  
> alt="(feed)"></a> <a href="http://www.readmyday.co.uk/andydag"  
> title="Andy D'Agorne">Andy D'Agorne</a>
> </li>
> <li>
> <a href="http://ashleygunstock.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"  
> title="subscribe"><img src="images/feed-icon-10x10.png" alt="(feed)"></ 
> a> <a href="http://ashleygunstock.blogspot.com/" title="Ashley  
> Gunstock">Ashley Gunstock</a>
> </li>
> <li>
> <a href="http://jim.killock.org.uk/?feed=rss2" title="subscribe"><img  
> src="images/feed-icon-10x10.png" alt="(feed)"></a> <a href="http://jim.killock.org.uk 
> " title="Jim Killock's Green Party blog">Jim Killock</a>
> 
> </li>
> <li>
> <a href="http://www.twodoctors.org/atom.xml" title="subscribe"><img  
> src="images/feed-icon-10x10.png" alt="(feed)"></a> <a href="http://www.twodoctors.org/ 
> " title="Two Doctors">Two Doctors</a>
> </li>
> </ul>
> 
> and this is my config.ini file:
> 
> # Planet configuration file
> #
> # This illustrates some of Planet's fancier features with example.
> 
> # Every planet needs a [Planet] section
> [Planet]
> # name: Your planet's name
> # link: Link to the main page
> # owner_name: Your name
> # owner_email: Your e-mail address
> name = GreenFeed
> link = http://www.greenfeed.org.uk/feeds2/
> owner_name = Gordon Hodgson
> owner_email = feeds [at] greenfeed [dot] org [dot] uk
> 
> # cache_directory: Where cached feeds are stored
> # new_feed_items: Number of items to take from new feeds
> # log_level: One of DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR or CRITICAL
> # feed_timeout: number of seconds to wait for any given feed
> cache_directory = /home/greenfee/public_html/venus/cache
> new_feed_items = 15
> log_level = DEBUG
> feed_timeout = 20
> 
> # template_files: Space-separated list of output template files
> template_files = /home/greenfee/public_html/venus/themes/classic_fancy/ 
> index.html.tmpl /home/greenfee/public_html/venus/themes/common/ 
> atom.xml.tmpl /home/greenfee/public_html/venus/themes/common/ 
> rss20.xml.tmpl /home/greenfee/public_html/venus/themes/common/ 
> rss10.xml.tmpl /home/greenfee/public_html/venus/themes/common/ 
> opml.xml.tmpl /home/greenfee/public_html/venus/themes/common/ 
> foafroll.xml.tmpl
> 
> # The following provide defaults for each template:
> # output_dir: Directory to place output files
> # items_per_page: How many items to put on each page
> # days_per_page: How many complete days of posts to put on each page
> #                This is the absolute, hard limit (over the item limit)
> # date_format: strftime format for the default 'date' template variable
> # new_date_format: strftime format for the 'new_date' template variable
> # encoding: output encoding for the file, Python 2.3+ users can use the
> #           special "xml" value to output ASCII with XML character  
> references
> # locale: locale to use for (e.g.) strings in dates, default is taken  
> from your
> #         system. You can specify more locales separated by ':',  
> planet will
> #         use the first available one
> output_dir = /home/greenfee/public_html/feeds2
> items_per_page = 200
> #used to be 100
> days_per_page = 4
> #used to be 0 then 7 then 2
> date_format = %d %B, %Y %I:%M %p
> new_date_format = %d %B, %Y
> encoding = utf-8
> # locale = C
> 
> 
> # To define a different value for a particular template you may create
> # a section with the same name as the template file's filename (as given
> # in template_files).
> 
> # Provide no more than 7 days articles on the front page
> # [planet-2.0/examples/fancy/index.html.tmpl]
> #days_per_page = 2
> 
> # If non-zero, all feeds which have not been updated in the indicated
> # number of days will be marked as inactive
> activity_threshold = 0
> 
> 
> # Options placed in the [DEFAULT] section provide defaults for the feed
> # sections.  Placing a default here means you only need to override the
> # special cases later.
> [DEFAULT]
> # Hackergotchi default size.
> # If we want to put a face alongside a feed, and it's this size, we
> # can omit these variables.
> #face = greenfeed.png
> #facewidth = 100
> #faceheight = 100
> 
> 
> # Any other section defines a feed to subscribe to.  The section title
> # (in the []s) is the URI of the feed itself.  A section can also be
> # have any of the following options:
> #
> # name: Name of the feed (defaults to the title found in the feed)
> #
> # Additionally any other option placed here will be available in
> # the template (prefixed with channel_ for the Items loop).  We use
> # this trick to make the faces work -- this isn't something Planet
> # "natively" knows about.  Look at fancy-examples/index.html.tmpl
> # for the flip-side of this.
> 
> 
> [http://www.adopteddomain.com/blog/atom.xml]
> #name = Adopted Domain
> #face = bison.jpg
> #faceheight = 133
> 
> [http://www.adrianramsay.org.uk/blogfeed.rss]
> #name = Adrian Ramsay's Blog
> #face = adrianramsay.jpg
> #faceheight = 74
> 
> [http://www.adrianramsay.org.uk/newsfeed.rss]
> #name = Adrian Ramsay: News
> #face = adrianramsay.jpg
> #faceheight = 74
> 
> [http://aleddilwynfisher.wordpress.com/feed/]
> #name = Aled Dilwyn Fisher's Blog
> 
> [http://www.readmyday.co.uk/pub/readmydayuk/andydag/__rss__/andydag.rss]
> #name = Andy D'Agorne
> #face = andy.jpg
> #faceheight = 122
> 
> [http://ashleygunstock.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default]
> #name = Ashley Gunstock
> #face = ashley.jpg
> #faceheight = 150
> 
> [http://jim.killock.org.uk/?feed=rss2]
> 
> [http://www.twodoctors.org/atom.xml]
> 
> Any help would be very much appreciated,
> 
> Gordon