Feed Frenzy
October 25, 2006
Thanks to Paul O’Flaherty for taking the time to point out that my RSS feed was broken.
I didn’t spot this myself because I don’t subscribe to my main feed in Google Reader, just the comments feed. Attensa was picking up my main feed posts just fine, and although I don’t use it much these days, the toast slices were popping up each time I posted something new so I figured everything was groovy.
After the heads-up from Paul, I tried to add the main feed to Google Reader but it told me there were no valid feeds at my URL. Yikes! I headed over to feedvalidator.org and checked both of my feed URLs. I needed to make some changes to a couple of the Wordpress php files, and a change to a php module for one of the plugins that I use before the feeds would validate.
The strange thing is that the main feed still isn’t being picked up by Google Reader. By that I mean the feed title appears, but it doesn’t collect any posts. If I specify it as:
http://andrewterry.com/?feed=rss2
it’s fine; the same if I drop the trailing slash, as in,
The problem is I’m struggling to find out where/how Wordpress constructs this URL. Even stranger is the fact that Google Reader doesn’t seem to care about the trailing slash on the comments feed, and picking up new posts there without any problem.
I’ve got a couple of queries posted elsewhere, but if anyone reading this can shed some light on this strangeness, I would love to hear from you!
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