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1. wp-andy
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Hi,

   I have a problem with my RSS Feeds. The feed for entries works, but the feed for comments doesn't.

   http://www.trekprops.de

   Top right there are the two buttons for the feeds. The links are

   http://www.trekprops.de/feed
   and
   http://www.trekprops.de/comments/feed

   and I called them using

   <?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>
   and
   <?php bloginfo('comments_rss2_url'); ?>

   respectively, which seems to be right but the comments feed is not found.

   The site doesn't have any comments yet, so the feed should be empty, but instead it's not working at all.

   I noticed that it works when permalinks are set to default. With any other permalink setting it doesn't work (current: %postname%). I'd like to keep %postname% however.

   I built the theme myself, so I might have messed something up, but I don't what it could be. However, the problem also occurs with the default theme activated.

   It's not one of the plugins, I deactivated them all and it didn't help.

   I also tried creating a new .htacces file, but that gives me an internal server error.

   I'm using WordPress 2.8.5

   Anybody got an idea what could be wrong? Why would one feed work but not the other? Any help would be greatly appreciated as I've been looking for a solution for days!

   Thanks in advance for any hints!

2. stvwlf
   Member
   Posted 4 weeks ago #

   Did you try creating a test comment?

3. wp-andy
   Member
   Posted 4 weeks ago #

   I feel like a jerk now.

   I had created a test comment and it didn't work. Now, I tried it again and it works now...

   Probably I didn't wait long enough before checking the feed the first time as it takes a little while to get updated, right?

   Anyway, it works now. Thanks for the pointer!

   BTW: Now that I have deleted the test comment the feed is not found again. But now I know that that's because there is no comment yet...

   Thanks again!

4. stvwlf
   Member
   Posted 4 weeks ago #

   Hi

   Depending on how you are looking at the feed yes it can take a while before it gets picked up. Google Reader for example checks feeds every hour or so.

   This sort of thing, by the way, is how one learns.

5. wp-andy
   Member
   Posted 4 weeks ago #

   It is indeed. Thanks again for your help.

   So is it normal that the comments feed is not found when there are no comments yet?

6. stvwlf
   Member
   Posted 4 weeks ago #

   Yes - there's nothing to feed.

   The same happens when you create a new category and assign no posts to it. If you go to the category page you receive a 404.

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