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1. Bill K30
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I am building my first site in WP and all was going well until I accidentally did something which changed my RSS pages from showing the listed entries in the blog to showing only the raw code.

   I have tried all sorts to put this right without any success, including a complete reinstallation of WP. Because I am a first time user of WP though I have no idea about either what I did or what is wrong now.

   All advice greatly appreciated since I can see no way of removing the RSS link on my site either. Unfortunately, I cannot show you the problem since the site id being built in a localhost format just now.

   All good wishes, Bill K30

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Site url?

3. dwojta
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I'm in the same boat, so I'll be watching the responses. The URL for my site is http://www.mcl159.org

   I want to put the RSS image on with the way for folks to just click and add to their RSS readers. Probably a widget, but I am behind the power curve here.

   BTW, I really am liking WordPress!

4. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   @dwojta: There's nothing wrong with your feed. Try setting it to Full in Settings->Reading. Also it is considered impolite to try and highjack another poster's thread. So please post a new topic next time.

5. dwojta
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Sorry, didn't mean to be impolite, but I thought the answer would help both of us. No "hijack" intended, in fact I stated that I would watch for responses.

   Thanks for your response, I appreciate it.

6. dwojta
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   No help, but thanks for trying...

7. Bill K30
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks Esmi. At the moment there is no site - I am working in a localhost setting but later today, I should be able to put something up at
   http:/www.seenandheard-international.com

   What happened was that the feed was working and I noticed that it had a link marked Edit at the bottom, so I clicked it to see what it did. After that, a messaage flashed up asking me if I would like to do something else - can't remember what now - and after I accepted that, I was left with the feed pages - reading and comments - showing nothing but code.

   As I said I have tried all sorts to fix this but to no avail. Any advice would be much appreciated and I also would be interested to learn what Dwojta did to apparently cause the same problem - if that's not breaking Forum rules of course.

8. Bill K30
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   By the way, I have just looked at Dwojta's site and it show exactly the same sort of code as my site has on its RSS feeds.

   All best, Bill K30

9. Bill K30
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I have fixed it! The problem was not with WordPress at all but with a corrupted copy of IE 8 on my PC. This morning - I am in the UK - it occurred to me to check the site out in Firefox, where it was fine. I then tried the same thing on my wife's laptop also in FF and again was fine. That made mne look at IE8 more closely.

   For Dwojta's benefit - if you are also using a version of IE - the solution is to reset IE8 -in my case - to its factory settings ie via Control Panel/ Internet Options / Advanced Tab/ Reset - at the bottom right.

   After restarting IE 8 there is the usual Welcome routine and I chose to reject all accelerators and add-ons to ensure that there was no unwanted clutter. After resetting my start pages, I looked at the site again and the RSS feeds were perfect.

   Hope this helps Dwojta and thanks Esmi for your interest in the problem. If the same solution works for Dwojta, then I would say that the problem is resolved.

   Best, Bill K30

10. dwojta
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    You have fixed mine as well Bil K30! I regularly use Google Chrome as my browser and when I switch to IE8 it reads it correctly. Now if there were only a way to get it to work cross browser.... :-)

    Thank you Bill K30!

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