RSS Feed Manager posting in strange places

[~kev~]

Last night I updated my site to VB 3.7.2. The previous version was 3.7. Today, my members have reported several threads and forums where the RSS Feed Manager is posting in strange places.

In one thread, the RSS Feed Manager posted before the #1 post. This bumped the starter of the thread to the #2 spot. The RSS Feed Manager is also posting new threads in forums it is not assigned to.

My RSS Feed Manager pulls RS feeds from the BBC and Yahoo news. Everything has been working fine until the update last night. Before I posted this thread I disabled the RSS feed manager. So it is not posting anything right now.

One thing that should be noted, a few hours after the site was updated, I made a change and crashed the site. So the database was restored from the last back up, which was about 4 hours earlier.

[Steve Machol]

The most likely cause of the posting number issue is the server time. You need to set the timezone in the Admin CP to whatever you want the default to be and the DST settings should match whatever settings are on the server.

The issue of posting in the wrong forums is not something that can happen with the default vB. To troubleshoot this, first reupload all the original vB non-image files (except install.php). Make sure you upload these in ASCII format and overwrite the ones on the server. Also be sure to upload the admincp files to whichever directory you have set in your config.php file. Then run 'Suspect File Versions' in Diagnostics to make sure you have all the original files for your version and that none show 'File does not contain expected contents':

Admin CP -> Maintenance -> Diagnostics -> Suspect File Versions

[Note: In some cases you may also need to remove any of the listed .xml files in the includes/xml directory.]

Next, disable all plugins.

Note: To temporarily disable the plugin system, edit config.php and add this line right under <?php

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);

Then if you still have this problem, create a new style and choose no parent style. This will force it to use the default templates. Finally empty your browser cache, close all browser windows then try again. Make sure you change to the new style and view your forums with it. Do you have the same problem?

[~kev~]

Something strange here, after looking at the times on the post, it looks more like they are being merged.

The RSS news feed was posted Today, 01:40 AM and in the news section.

This morning, around Today, 10:42 AM a member post a new thread in a firearms section. Somehow the two threads were merged. After looking at the moderation history, no moderator merged them.

I have three different templates installed. Members can pick which one they want to use. Your instructions will be followed, as I have done this before, but for a different problem. And creating a new template fixed the problem before.