Thanks for the quick response. Regarding the RSS feed; it could very well be that I'm simply expecting more in the way of content from the feed, rather than any fundamental issue with your implementation. Some time ago, I implemented a web server based RSS reader. This is my code for one such feed...

1<ul>
2  <?php
3	date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
4	 $dom = simplexml_load_file("https://blog.rapid7.com/rss/");
5	 echo "<hr>";
6	 foreach ($dom->channel->item as $item)
7	 {
8		 print "<li>";
9			 // print "<a href='{$item->link}'target='_blank'>Link</a>";
10			 $d = strtotime($item->pubDate);
11			 echo "<h3>Publishing Date: " . date("d-m-Y",$d) . "</h3>";
12			 echo "<h3>Item Title: " . $item->title . "</h3>";
13			 // echo "<br>";
14			 echo "<h4>" . $item->description . "</h4>";
15			 //print "</a>";
16			 echo "<a href='{$item->link}'target='_blank'><b>Open Item in a new TAB</b></a>";
17			 print "</li>";
18			 echo "<hr>";
19	 }
20  ?>
21</ul>

... It's not that I think that you don't know what you're doing, as you clearly do; it's more likely than not, that I'm expecting too much from your RSS feed. The code here is a simple demonstration of what is fetched for each <item / channel / dom> which may or may not be of use to you.