• I’m painfully new to WordPress. I’ve never worked with RSS or feeds, though I read the feeds page on the codex.

    I understand that WordPress automatically generates feeds, but I went to weblogs.com and entered my url, and got a message that there’s no feeds. I clicked on the RSS icon on my template, and got a ‘page not found’.

    If WordPress automatically generates pings or feeds or whatever, do I have to do anything other than update my page (create entries). If so, why wouldn’t weblogs have been able to validate the feed? Also, I read some other feed topics on this forum, and tried going to my site’s feed page (I forget the url but I followed the directions) and also got page not found.

    I checked the coding on the template and there’s definitely a line in there about RSS feed, so as far as I know, the template isn’t totally devoid of RSS (the feed codex says some templates don’t have RSS included by default).

    I suspect I am missing something obvious, but I’ve never dealt with RSS in my life so I haven’t a clue.

    Thanks.

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  • 1. Open the header.php file and remove the word “feed:” from the RSS links.
    2. Your feeds are OK, but not where you are looking for:
    http://www.hated-it.com/blog/feed
    – it has www
    – and has to point to your real location

    I too and having problems with my RSS feed — i am extremely new to RSS —

    I have the RSS buttons and links in my template, but when I click on them to set up a feed, I get the following error:

    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/j4media/public_html/index.php:1) in /home/j4media/public_html/wp-commentsrss2.php on line 8

    Do I need to set something up first?

    Thanks in advance for your help.

    Jrexi

    but when I click on them to set up a feed
    You don’t have to “set up” anything. WP does it for you.

    For the error see the Codex:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_do_I_solve_the_Headers_already_sent_warning_problem.3F

    Thanks moshu, I’ll check out the error solution and see if that works for me.

    Thread Starter oldhickory

    (@oldhickory)

    You said:

    *1. Open the header.php file and remove the word “feed:” from the RSS links.
    2. Your feeds are OK, but not where you are looking for:
    http://www.hated-it.com/blog/feed
    – it has www
    – and has to point to your real location*

    Ok, so “feed:” appears twice in the header. Removing both instances will solve my issue without my doing anything else? Was this an error in the template code? I am confused by the second part about having to point to my real location.

    Thanks, by the way.

    “feed” is a relatively new(?) protocol, not universally recognized by browsers. It is not an ‘error’ in the theme… let’s say the theme author went ahead of the time 🙂

    2. Your WP installation is in a subfolder called “blog” while you display the site at the root level. You either didn’t set this up correctly, or it just doesn’t want to work, because
    http://www.yoursite.com/feed – does NOT work but
    http://www.yoursite.com/blog/feed – works!

    OK, i found the following on the last 2 lines of wp-rss2.php:

    </channel>
    </rss>

    I removed those and still got the same error. The error mentions line 8 and here is what I currently have on line 8, do you see a problem there?

    header(‘Content-type: text/xml; charset=’ . get_settings(‘blog_charset’), true);

    Maybe an extra space some where?

    Thread Starter oldhickory

    (@oldhickory)

    I suspect that’s because the blog replaces my original index.html page – I installed WP via my host, which gave me the option to make the blog the home page, which I wanted to do.

    So, if the header code looks like this:

    =”feed:<?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); ?

    and
    =”feed:<?php bloginfo(‘comments_rss2_url’); ?>”>Comments

    removing the two instances of the word ‘feed’ will get feeds working? It sounds like from what you said there should be more I have to do to make the feeds recognizable. Will readers always look in yoursite.com/feed (which evidently doesn’t exist)?

    Sorry to keep this running, I’m just wary of changing the code and doing something improperly.

    Jrexi,
    before messing with the code, please READ carefully the Codex link I posted. Till end. That’s where it gives you clues how to read the error. You are looking at the wrong place…

    OH,
    delete the “feed:” anyway.

    After that we’ll be looking how to make the feedreaders to find the real location 🙂

    Thread Starter oldhickory

    (@oldhickory)

    I took them out, so the code now looks like:

    href=”<?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’);

    and

    href=”<?php bloginfo(‘comments_rss2_url’);

    Because of the WP_Cache I still see the “feed:” part.

    Thread Starter oldhickory

    (@oldhickory)

    I’ve noticed that sometime changes I make don’t show up right away.

    Ah, got it moshu…

    Thanks for leading me by the hand!

    Now I have to figure out how to get a page title in the browser head 🙂

    HI, I also know nothing of all this feed and code that is used. Today I went to Zoomclouds.com to get a tag cloud on my website..ok don’t laugh….anyway I get a response from them that says..

    ERROR!: We could not process the data from this feed. It could be that the URL isn’t pointing to a RSS/Atom feed, the server for the feed wasn’t responding, or that something went wrong regardless. Please, verify your feed and try to update your cloud at a later time.

    So I went to my blog and tried the rss options..the rss 2.0 works and the comments rss2.0..but when I clicked on Valid rss I get an invalid page..does it have anything to do with the valid xhtml validator finding errors? I didn’t realise I had to fix them..laziness…

    I have been here for hours going through the archives of these questions and half the time I don’t understand what to do..thanks for any help

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