Blank Feed Problem with WP 2.5.1 Upgrade

Over the weekend, my RSS feed went totally blank, which made you people miss couple of posts. Thanks to everyone who sent out emails to let me know. It turns out that the culprit was WordPress 2.5.1 upgrade. I directly link to my feed generating files (wp-rss2.php) for FeedBurner to burn my feeds. For some weird reason, those files don’t send any content in WP 2.5.1

Fortunately, the fix was pretty simple. I had to change my FeedBurner settings to use pretty permalinks instead of wp-rss2.php. It’s really painful to see your feed go blank to for three days. My feed count took a small nose dive :(

This post was published by on April 30, 2008

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  • http://www.greatpriceshere.com Nicole Price

    All is then well that ends well. I am arranging for some others to get your RSS feeds as well.

  • http://www.myokyawhtun.com Myo Kyaw Htun

    I’ve tested but did not have that problem.

  • http://blog.lucas3d.com Lucas Janin

    Nice !!! The solution of my probleme !!
    Thanks a lot Thilak !!!

  • Red Hot Chilli Peppers

    I haven’t this problem, something strange…

  • Biff

    “Fortunately, the fix was pretty simple. I had to change my FeedBurner settings to use pretty permalinks instead of wp-rss2.php.”

    I don’t suppose you could tell us how you did this.

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    @Biff: Well, that’s pretty straight forward. Just had to log into FeedBurner and edit the source feed from http://yoursite.com/wp-rss2.php (or anything which ends with .php) to http://yoursite.com/feed/

    Hope that helps you.