PicLens Can Not Find photos.rss PicLens rss Feed
When I first tried to get PicLens enabled on my website photogallery I could not get the PicLens plugin to recognise my pictures rss feed. I had created my pictures.rss feed and instructed by the PicLens webmaster guide and pointed the page to the rss file using the link call at the top of my page.
<link id="gallery" rel="alternate" href="photos.rss" type="application/rss+xml">
I double checked the format of my photos.rss page but I still could not get PicLens to recognize it, and instead kept getting the error:
“This site does not yet support PicLens.”
The Cause: I discovered was that my web host (GoDaddy Shared Hosting Plan) was not correctly serving the rss file.
The Solution: Rename the photos.rss feed to photos.xml. Since the rss file is an XML file I knew it would be correctly served and would be hopefully be discovered by PicLens. For me changing the rss file to an xml file extension solved my “This site does not yet support PicLens” Error.
The second issue I discovered was that the webmaster guide does not list the guid field in the spec yet it is seems to be necessary for PicLens to match images on your site to the declarations in the rss feed. The guid field is included in the example photos.rss fied that comes with the downloadable webmaster guide which seemed to work unlike mine was so it was my clue the rss guid field was necessary. The rss spec clasifies the guid field as a unique identifier. I chose to use the filename as the guid for my photos.rss (photos.xml field as is the case for my setup) since it is unique and change the isPermaLink field to be true since it is. I could have also used the ID field of that row in my Database but I figured the PermaLink provided me with more information.
<guid isPermaLink="true">picture_214_2_1211225557.jpg</guid>
Let me know if this solves your PicLens error or if you have any others I may be able to help with.
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4 Responses to “PicLens Can Not Find photos.rss PicLens rss Feed”
May 30th, 2008 at 5:47 am
Thanks! This was exactly what i needed to get the piclens demo to work with my own pictures on my testserver.
Strange that PicLens does not mention the guid-tag when it’s all important to get it to work with your own pictures.
Remember to change the rss link in the gallery.html file accordingly and add span tags for your own pictures.
And if anybody is annoyed by the underscore _ after the image in IE, then just remove the tabs/blanks between the and tags in gallery.html.
June 26th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Thank you this really helped me as the hosting provider wouldn’t help.
June 27th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Hi,
my problem was that the images were not named correctly (too long or signes like “%” - and the PicLens did not work.
I renamed some of them and now it works fine; I did not need to change the rss in xml.
Regards
Boris
May 30th, 2008 at 12:49 am
Grazie!