onemediaguy

This link will explain further the issues:

http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2005-May/001037.html

I’m not an expert with this stuff, but what I glean from this is that there’s still some differences of opinion, even to this date, on how the feed links should be formed. It would certainly be useful for the WP to improve the documentation in this area, particularly as it relates to the RSS Widget and related RSS feeds. It appears that WP forms their RSS feed as http://www.yourdomain.com/feed/ or something like that. However, many sites including aforementioned NYTimes, Apple, and others the form is feed://www.yourdomain.com/whatever/whatever

Either works in browsers and some Widgets. RSS and other widgets require the http://

Supporting both, or documenting this better, would be advised.

Samuel,

Thanks for your continued efforts to resolve this. If only the explanation was as easy as “99% of the folks using it, must be working”. I guess I am missing something because:

1. Major RSS feeds from NY Times, Wash. Post, etc. all have some minor errors when running them against the validator – so minor errors can’t be THAT BIG A DEAL. There seems to be plenty of RSS readers looking at those feeds all day long and not barfing.

2. The feed generated by the WP 3.0.1 site I am working on here:

feed://classicamericanchairs.com/feed/

passes the W3C validator without ANY errors (well at least that’s encouraging). Yet it causes Feedburner Widget to barf with bad errors in the display area, as below:

Warning: usort() [function.usort]: The argument should be an array in /home/onemwel5/public_html/classicamericanchairs/wp-content/plugins/feedaggregator/feed-gator.php on line 113

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/onemwel5/public_html/classicamericanchairs/wp-content/plugins/feedaggregator/feed-gator.php on line 256

AND the WP RSS widget does not even attempt to put anything up on the display.

So what am I missing here? This seems NOT to be an issue with the quality of the feed. So either I am doing something bogus, OR I’m in the 1% that is doing everything right and it still isn’t working because there’s a bogey in WP-3.0.1. It’s gotta be one or the other, but I’ve yet to see what I’m doing wrong.

Thanks.

BTW, I am using the Twenty Ten v 1.1 template default from WP install.