vkaryl

You’re going to think this is a weird question, but I’m going to ask it anyway:

What’s word number 979?

If you ever plan on having someone else work on the site, don’t go there…. I speak from experience with proprietary plugins which do exactly the sort of thing you seem to be looking for. It takes me an inordinate amount of time to get back into the whole stupid setup whenever the client’s client needs something tweaked, because the initial setup made no sense to begin with, and wasn’t properly documented.

Of course, I get paid – but that’s not the point…. The point is that proprietary plugins written to force wp into a mold for which it’s entirely unsuited is – um – well…. I cleaned that up – let’s just call it “the devil’s work”….

And this is wp version which?

At http://www.tomorrows-laundry.com/ (from the member link….)

Okay, well, you see that the browser addy bar has a feed icon, right? So that’s a heads up for readers right there. Click on it, get Noah’s Blog by feed….

Then in your sidebar there’s Meta – it has all the stuff it should have except for some reason the feed stuff isn’t showing.

You have this in that sidebar area:

<li><h2>Meta</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href=\\"http://www.goodtherapy.org/custom/blog/wp-login.php?action=register\\">Register</a></li>
<li><a href=\\"http://www.goodtherapy.org/custom/blog/wp-login.php\\">Login</a></li>
<li><a href=\\"http://validator.w3.org/check/referer\\" title=\\"This page validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional\\">Valid <abbr title=\\"eXtensible HyperText Markup Language\\">XHTML</abbr></a></li>
<li><a href=\\"http://gmpg.org/xfn/\\"><abbr title=\\"XHTML Friends Network\\">XFN</abbr></a></li>

Try replacing it with this:

<li><h2>Meta</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href=\\"http://www.goodtherapy.org/custom/blog/wp-login.php?action=register\\">Register</a></li>
<li><a href=\\"http://www.goodtherapy.org/custom/blog/wp-login.php\\">Login</a></li>
<li><a href=\\"http://validator.w3.org/check/referer\\" title=\\"This page validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional\\">Valid <abbr title=\\"eXtensible HyperText Markup Language\\">XHTML</abbr></a></li>
<li><a href=\\"http://gmpg.org/xfn/\\"><abbr title=\\"XHTML Friends Network\\">XFN</abbr></a></li>
<li><a href=\\"http://wordpress.org/\\" title=\\"Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.\\">WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href=\\"feed:<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>\\">Entries (RSS)</a></li>
<li><a href=\\"feed:<?php bloginfo('comments_rss2_url'); ?>\\">Comments (RSS)</a></li></ul>
</li>
<?php wp_meta(); ?>

And you might have to tweak with the closing ul and li tagsets – hard to tell without actually having the whole sidebar.php file to hand. If you want to post the whole sidebar.php file, copy the coding to http://wordpress.pastebin.ca and post the link here – I won’t have a chance to look at it before morning, but will get back to you then with a more concrete fix.

WP comes standard with rss already setup/working. The meta section in the sidebar and (depending on theme) comments and posts rss link notation in the footer are ready to go.

If you’re not seeing RSS for comments and links in the sidebar of the theme you’re using, then you may need to tweak the meta section so they show; or if the theme is widgetized simply activate the appropriate widgets (assuming you’ve installed the widgets plugin from http://automattic.com/code/widgets)

Well…. hmmm. From that list of backend programs, I’d assume that your host just upgraded php. So did mine. My installs (30+) didn’t do anything unusual.

The other thing that can cause your “download a php file” problem is a change in the httpd.conf file setup in Apache, where .php et al aren’t listed as legitimate index files for display in the browser. So you should maybe ask your host about that.

Oh, and while you’re at it, ask them if they did anything “unusually stringent” with the mod_security ruleset.

Oh 2 – if you’re using Firefox, did it just upgrade itself to 2.0.0.2? Mine did, which didn’t cause me the problem you’re having, but then again, browser settings are pretty personal, so yours might bork where mine didn’t….

Oh 3 – did you just upgrade or change your AV or firewall software?

Have fun – and more power to the monetizing!