Bah! WordPress 2.5.1 RSS Bug!

I keep falling for it. Each time there is a WordPress version update, I cannot resist upgrading. Mostly because I hate seeing the message that “there’s a new version of WordPress, please update!” message. It makes me feel as though my version is old.

However, each time I upgrade I end up spending an hour trying to fix the bugs that make WordPress work EXACTLY the way I wanted it to work BEFORE I upgraded! Hmmmm! Something is wrong with this equation! I upgrade so I can spend an hour making my blog look exactly the way it was before I upgrade.

Anyway, if you have upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1 do check that your RSS feeds working properly! What I discovered was that my RSS feed was completely empty even though I have been publishing posts. This was very troubling because I use FeedSmith to redirect all my feeds to Feedburner. If you go to my original feed at www.brianwong.com/blog/rss2.php you will see that the feed reports ZERO posts on my blog despite all my posts!

The fix?

Well I discovered that my feed at www.brianwong.com/blog/feed still works. So this is what I had to do to get back online:

1. Disable the FeedSmith plugin
2. Edit my RSS source in Feedburner from www.brianwong.com/blog/rss2.php to www.brianwong.com/blog/feed

So the next time WordPress comes up with the message ” “there’s a new version of WordPress, please update!” will I upgrade??

Sigh! I guess I am a sucker for punishment, I think I would still do it.

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Tags: feedburner, rss, Wordpress