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:
- Disable the FeedSmith plugin
- 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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Thanks for putting this up… I do exactly the same as you.. Frustrating that it broke my feeds, but thanks for the fix!
Hello Redking, thanks for visiting. I hope you managed to fix your feed. I only realized the error after 2 weeks of not-receiving my own updates via email. So I guess it goes without saying - its a definite must to subscribe to your own RSS feed.
Man, this is annoying. I got bit by this little bug as well. Is there any workaround yet to still use the FeedSmith plugin?
None that I am aware of. I just stopped using the Feedsmith plugin altogether and link directly to FeedBurner using the fix above.
I tried your procedure but still failed. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
SAWJ, your blog is hosted on a subdomain so that could be the problem. Try looking at your directory structure with your FTP software to find where the RSS feeds are located and link to it directly.
It should be something like: http://ali-jafri.com/blog/feed but I don’t know how you structured your directory so I can’t tell you for sure.