wordpress feed and feedburner

  • CBJason

    (@cbjason)


    17 years, 8 months ago

    To start – I am not a coder – most bloggers are not. So, when wordpress creates the XML feed on the fly, and it doesn’t validate, then we are left in the dark to stumble around as best we can. I don’t know if it’s a plugin that is causing it or WordPress, but here’s the deal:

    site is at: http://www.canonblogger.com
    Theme used is PressRow
    plugins: AdSense Manager, Akismet, All in One SEO Pack, Extended Comment Options, Google Analyticator, Gregarious, MintPopularPostsWP, podPress, Textlinkads, WP-FLV, WP-Stats and Wp Lightbox 2

    The only personal tweaks I’ve made are images in the header, and the podPress workaround to disable post revisions, with the latter being the only code I’ve “tweaked” at all. I’ve tried to leave the core alone as I am not a programmer or a developer and am leery at breaking things I don’t understand.

    So, when feedburner tells me this:

    http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.canonblogger.com%2ffeed%2f

    What the hell am I supposed to do? It is currently set to:

    http://www.canonblogger.com/?feed=podcast/

    When the blog should be set to:
    http://www.canonblogger.com/feed
    and the podcast should be set to:
    http://www.canonblogger.com/feed/podcast

    Whenever I try to update the feed in my bookmarks on Mac it fails. On Windows (Google) it reads it. WTF?!?!?! How are non coders supposed to deal with this?

    I know it’s open sourced and you get what you pay for, but this is just sloppy non-sensical lack of communication. Hate to rant like this while asking for help at the same time, but I am getting more than a little frustrated with the WordPress community and the lack of any adequate documentation on things like this.

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  • Thread Starter CBJason

    (@cbjason)

    17 years, 8 months ago

    Please….

    whooami

    (@whooami)

    17 years, 8 months ago

    if you look at the link that feedburner gave you for the errors, the problem isnt with wordpress, its with the plugin youre using, or whatever you are doing. (to my eye, at least)

    It looks to me like there are issues with the enclosures.

    Dont you see this?

    <enclosure url="s:125:&quot;a:5:{s:6:&quot;format&quot;;s:14:&quot;default-format&quot;;s:8:&quot;keywords&quot;;s:0:&quot;&quot;;s:6:&quot;author&quot;;s:0:&quot;&quot;;s:6:&quot;length&quot;;s:0:&quot;&quot;;s:8:&quot;explicit&quot;;s:0:&quot;&quot;;}&quot;;" length="" type="" />

    Whenever I try to update the feed in my bookmarks on Mac it fails. On Windows (Google) it reads it. WTF?!?!?! How are non coders supposed to deal with this?

    why do you think this is a code issue. Thats a user problem, NOT a wordpress problem.

    Thread Starter CBJason

    (@cbjason)

    17 years, 8 months ago

    I did see that – I went back and checked the post as I noticed that too, but did not see anything in the html of that to indicate I did something wrong with the post. I even deleted the attachment on the post, and m on the verge of deleting the post itself. I also disabled podpress to see if that would clean things up, but apparently something is generating the XML data behind the scenes that isn’t vaidating and I can’t figure out where it is…

    Any other ideas?

    Dgold

    (@dgold)

    17 years, 8 months ago

    I looked at the Feed Validator link you posted and it says your feed is valid. Then it suggests 4 things you could change. Try those things. If you have a specific question, say what the question is.

    You wrote this: and the podcast should be set to:
    http://www.canonblogger.com/feed/podcast

    I think what you meant is
    http://www.canonblogger.com/podcast/feed

    Both your feeds look ok on Firefox to me. They show up as feedburner style feeds.

    If you want to not touch code at all, you could switch to WordPress.com (or Blogger or Facebook). Then you won’t have access to code to mess with.

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