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James Huff
(@macmanx)
Volunteer Moderator
Well, first of all, your feed is at http://mygingerbreadjourney.co.uk/feed/ not what you put into the validator. 🙂
When you publish a post, is your feed at http://mygingerbreadjourney.co.uk/feed/ updated immediately?
If not, are you using any caching plugins or are you a customer of GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress hosting?
Ahh that’s what I originally put in! It now comes up with:
“No DOCTYPE found! Checking XML syntax only.
The DOCTYPE Declaration was not recognized or is missing….
The document located at <http://mygingerbreadjourney.co.uk/feed/> was successfully checked as well-formed XML. This means that we were not able to determine the exact document type, but that the document passed the XML well-formedness syntax check.”
Not really sure what any of that means or how to fix that warning.
If you mean when I publish a post, does it appear on my blog immediately, yep it does.
I was wondering if one reason why the views have altered is because search enginges/spammers can’t access it properly because of RSS issues or linking…?
But I’m a customer on GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress Hosting. Spoken to them and they say it must be a WordPress issues.
Big thank you for the help!
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James Huff
(@macmanx)
Volunteer Moderator
Ahh that’s what I originally put in! It now comes up with: “No DOCTYPE found! Checking XML syntax only.”
Well, you also need to use the Feed Validator, not just the general validator. 🙂
http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmygingerbreadjourney.co.uk%2Ffeed%2F
If you mean when I publish a post, does it appear on my blog immediately, yep it does.
No, I mean when you publish a post, does it appear at http://mygingerbreadjourney.co.uk/feed/ ?
If not, click the “Clear Cache” button that GoDaddy has provided in your admin bar. If it then appears in your feed after clearing the cache, contact GoDaddy, as their feed cache should be clearing itself whenever you publish or edit a post.
Where abouts do I go to check if it appears at http://mygingerbreadjourney.co.uk/feed/??
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James Huff
(@macmanx)
Volunteer Moderator
Once you publish a post, view http://mygingerbreadjourney.co.uk/feed/ in a feed reader application (not a web-based feed reader, like Bloglovin’), or any browser which displays even the raw feed content (like Chrome or Firefox).
Thanks James for your understanding towards my ignorance!
Just cleared the cache and then checked on Feedburner and it has now recognised the posts that were published a few days ago.
Any idea if this is the main issue of the problem and if so the next steps?
Also, how do I change my RSS feed to include images? (Bloglovin’ said that my RSS wasn’t allowing images to be included somehow?)
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James Huff
(@macmanx)
Volunteer Moderator
Any idea if this is the main issue of the problem and if so the next steps?
Yeah, the issue is GoDaddy’s cache tool, which should also automatically clear the feed’s cache when you publish or update a post, just like it clear’s the blog’s cache when you do. I ran into this with another GoDaddy Managed WordPress user earlier today.
You’ll need to contact GoDaddy about this.
Also, how do I change my RSS feed to include images?
From Settings -> Reading in your blog’s Dashboard, under “For each article in a feed, show,” select “Full text.”
Thanks James, you have been ace!
Also, I’m guessing you might know this/have a clue.
On website viewings, do Blogger/Wordpress have different settings? I’m wondering if when I was on Blogger it was counting all of the spammers/searchers page views but WordPress is blocking these (hence the downfall)…?
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James Huff
(@macmanx)
Volunteer Moderator
Yes, Jetpack Stats does filter out many known spam views, so what you’re seeing are actual real human views (as far as Jetpack knows, anyway).
