# Issues with embedding from RSS

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-with-embedding-from-rss/31358>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [July 23, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-with-embedding-from-rss/31358 "2015-07-23T17:23:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-with-embedding-from-rss/31358/1 "2015-07-23T17:23:37Z")

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I’m having a few issues with embedding from RSS. I’m going to enable comments for each original post, but I want to ensure that the comments end up in the right location in Discourse with the correct attributed author and publishing date.

**Issue 1: embed username key from feed**

I need each topic to be correctly attributed to the right author. I’m set up as the default. My RSS has a format of `<discourseUsername>jo</discourseUsername>`, so I entered `discourseUsername` as the value for `embed username key from feed`. It just attributes all topics to the default user. Have I done something wrong here?

**Issue 2: pubdates**

I need each topic’s timestamp to be the same as the original post publishing time. Otherwise adding our RSS feed of ~70 posts floods the forum with outdated topics that have recent timestamps. (Pushing newer manually-created topics down.) Is there a way to set the timestamp for topics pulled from RSS to the same time as the RSS `<pubdate>`?

**Issue 3: chronology**

Maybe related to Issue 3, the topics imported via RSS are not in the same chronological order as the original posts.

I hope none of these are stupid questions! Any help, suggestions, or workarounds would be much appreciated! 😄

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