You don’t like the RSS xml feed that’s already built in to WordPress?
I’d like it better if I could find it. All I see is an rss.php and rss2.php. All the other feeds are php as well.
You have “pretty” permalinks on?
http
No permalinks?
http
Some of the rss readers can’t find the feed.. when I use that. I want like a feed.xml file. Like have it as an addition to the other feeds.
What possible reader are you working with that can’t take a well-formed RSS xml feed like WP generates? Got an url, I’d love to see one of these?
You don’t NEED to build “feed.xml”. That’s… argh.. counter to how RSS works. And silly.
Click on this link.. and see..
This link.. it’s to add the rss to MyAOL
It’s part of the sydicate page I’m building.. and it says it can’t find the feed. And I know I got the URL right.. I made sure.
It says “Error
No feeds were found at the given address.”
Ok, yeah. AOL is a bit picky. It took my feed though using http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/feed so I feel a bit vindicated…
I wonder if it would take your feed after you clean up your theme a bit. You have a lot of stuff BEFORE the <head> tag (like divs!). It seems like AOL hits the url and checks for the feed links in the head section.
I might direct this problem to AOL, as it appears to be their issue.
To be sure it would work the way you want, have you saved your feed to your a static file named the way you want? I would do that to be sure your desired path will solve the problem.
Actually, looking at your feed, it’s not quite formed the same as mine. Could it dislike the comment? (<!-- podcast_generator="podPress/6.0" -->). I have no idea what aol may or may not like to read in it feeds it tries to eat.
um, know what, I should have done this first. http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rambling-theory.com%2Ffeed
there are some issues that aol may not like.
Ahhh.. I never thought about a feed validator. How would I fix the ‘problems’ without messing up what I have?
That’s a good question, in that, I don’t specifically what aol dislikes. I would still start with saving the feed as a static file, named the way you think aol will like, and try submitting it again.
If it likes it, then you know it’s path name and not the content. If it doesn’t like it, you can go through the static file line by line deleting items until it validates. (start at the bottom so line numbers don’t change).
Well, that’s what I would do find the issue.
And I might update to 2.0.3 first, just cuz.
One of those problems can be fixed by editing your rss2.php file and changing wfw:commentRSS to wfw:commentRss. Note the lowercase “ss” at the end. FeedValidator is picky.
The rest of the “problems”, well, not much you can do about it. That’s all stuff that is actually in your posts. No real feed reader would have much of a problem with those.
Technically it validates. Those are just warnings. It might not even be any one of those warnings that aol is having the problem with. Unless someone has hit this issue before, I don’t see a way around experimenting.
Or not adding the AOL to the syndicate page. That’s the easy way.
