RSS feed not updating / Merging feeds

  • nrumas

    (@nrumas)


    13 years ago

    There’s an issue with my site’s (http://phantomleap.com) RSS feed that I’m having trouble making sense of. I discovered the issue in Google Reader, and posted it in the Reader help forum, as well. I would greatly appreciate any help in understanding the problem.

    The feed where all of my subscribers are is http://phantomleap.com/?feed=rss2, but it hasn’t successfully updated in five days, citing a fetching error. Also, a search for ‘Phantom Leap’ in Google Reader at present won’t even reveal this feed. [Screencap: http://goo.gl/AhLce%5D

    The feed that Google Reader picks up automatically when searching for ‘Phantom Leap’ is the simpler http://phantomleap.com/feed/, and it updates properly, but it only has a few subscribers. [Screencap: http://goo.gl/Dt4LN%5D

    (I even found an older feed with no subscribers that stopped updating near the end of 2009 when I searched for ‘http://www.phantomleap.com/?feed=rss2’ in Reader. I subscribed to it, and it soon updated with the latest ten posts from my site.)

    What I’m curious to know is whether there’s a way to make the feed with all of my subscribers — http://phantomleap.com/?feed=rss2 — point to the one that’s being fetched properly — http://phantomleap.com/feed/ — without any change for the current subscribers of both feeds. Or whether there’s a way to merge them without affecting existing subscriptions. I don’t understand how the multiple feeds came about, if that’s even what they are. Also, clicking on the former takes one to the latter, for what it’s worth.

    The relevant code from the site is as follows, in bold: 

    <title>Phantom Leap</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />

    I’m guessing I’ve got something very simply wrong at a basic level. I’m at Feedburner, as well (http://feeds.feedburner.com/PhantomLeap), though I don’t know if that has any bearing on this situation.

    Again, any info that might shed some light on the situation for me would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    13 years ago

    Try using http://phantomleap.com//feed

    Thread Starter nrumas

    (@nrumas)

    13 years ago

    Thanks for the reply, and sorry in advance for my lack of familiarity. I have no experience with feed issues whatsoever, and the site was handed over to me fully built.

    What I don’t understand is where/how I would implement a new url like that. Can you provide me with some more detail?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    13 years ago

    Try removing:

    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />

    and adding something like:

    function my_theme_setup() {
    add_theme_support( 'automatic-feed-links' );
}
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'my_theme_setup' );

    to your theme’s functions.php. Hard coded feed links are now deprecated in favour of automatically-generated links.

    [EDITED: added wrong add_theme_support initially.]

    Thread Starter nrumas

    (@nrumas)

    13 years ago

    Thanks for the advice! I will give it a try.

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