• rockson

    (@rockson)


    Hello,

    I am somewhat technochallanged and uploaded my blog over the weeked. I have gone through the WP help section as well as this BB. I am not able to wrap my little brian around this.

    The problem, I can not find my RSS feed anywhere, nor do I know what code to add and where! I have tried using feedburner and that is no help.

    If anyone could help, I would be very greatful.

    My blog is at https://www.vanbrimmer.com/rocky

    Thank you
    Rocky

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    Just click on that orange gizmo at top right – it’s the conventional sign for feeds…
    However, you have an error in your feeds: try to copy the relevant part into the Search box here. It should help.

    Thread Starter rockson

    (@rockson)

    When I click on the “Orange gizmo” as you put it, I get “Internet explorer cannot display this feed. This feed contains code errors”

    Then it tells me to go back to the preivous page.

    My expert analyisis is telling me that I have something jacked up or not installed correctly. The question is, what is it or how do I fix it?

    Any ideas?

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    OK…
    1. Feeds are NOT for being stared at in browsers. They are for machines only.
    2. Firefox, however, shows the feeds or, in your case, the error
    3. Here is the link to the feed validator which even tells you what the error is:
    https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fvanbrimmer.com%2Frocky%2Ffeed%2F

    Thread Starter rockson

    (@rockson)

    Moshu, thank you. I have gone through and recieved the following information: Solution
    Check your wp-rss2.php and wp-atom.php files for blank lines outside of <? and ?> bracketed sections.
    Check your wp-config.php file for blank lines outside of <? and ?> bracketed sections.
    Check your theme’s functions.php file for blank lines outside of <? and ?> bracketed sections.
    One by one, disable plugins and revalidate until you isolate the one causing the problem.

    I have aliviated these lines and it still does not do the trick. Now I have to go through 1 by 1 of my plugins.

    How do I tell which ones are plugins and which are not?

    As well, I tried going through firefox and recieved this message.

    XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity
    Location: https://vanbrimmer.com/rocky/feed/
    Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
    ^

    Does this mean anything?

    Thanks for your help!!!

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    Yep, I already saw that error message when I wrote my very first reply above.
    It says that you have a blank line at the top.

    I don’t understand your question about plugins.
    Plugins are plugins and you can see them in your admin panel.
    Decativate them all.
    Check the feeds.
    If they work – activate the plugins one by one, checking the feeds after each activation. When the feeds go away – that’s the faulty plugin.

    Thread Starter rockson

    (@rockson)

    ahhh I see what you mean with the pulgins. Duh!!!

    Checkign them, thanks again!

    Thread Starter rockson

    (@rockson)

    I missed the “deactivate all plugins” at the bottom!

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    Well, it’s a plugin because I just could see your feeds… I assume you just deactivated the plugins ??

    Thread Starter rockson

    (@rockson)

    Yes, i deactivated my plugins, the problem is with the Customizable permalinks by yahoo webhosting.

    Do I need permalinks and if I do, how do I go about fixing the prolem or is there another plugin I should load?

    BTW, than you very much Moshu!!!!! Thisis the farthest I have got in a weekend, and the reason I dropped movable type!

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    If you can, check that plugin file, too, for blank line at the top.
    (I don’t know how Y! works with its own plugins… but my advise is always ‘run away asap’)

    Thread Starter rockson

    (@rockson)

    Do you recomend another permalink plugin?

    Thread Starter rockson

    (@rockson)

    This is the code from the permalink. Do you think it would hurt if if I removed the bold section?

    <?php
    /*
    * Copyright (c) Yahoo! Inc. 2005. All Rights Reserved.
    *
    * This file is part of Yahoo Permalink Plugin. The Yahoo Permalink Plugin
    * is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms
    * of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
    * Foundation under version 2 of the License, and no other version. The Yahoo
    * Permalink plugin is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
    * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
    * FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
    * GNU General Public License for more details.
    * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    * along with the Yahoo Permalink plugin; if not, write to the Free Software
    * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA
    */

    /*
    Plugin Name: Customizable Permalinks
    Plugin URI: https://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting/
    Description: Help drive and retain traffic to your site with the Customizable Permalinks plug-in, which enables you to give your readers easily understandable, static web addresses (URLs) for your pages. Customized permalinks make it easier for your readers to bookmark and share your blog posts.
    Author: Yahoo! Web Hosting
    Version: 1.0
    Author URI: https://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting/
    */

    function update_permalink_file() {
    if (isset($_POST[‘permalink_structure’]) ) {
    if(empty($_POST[‘permalink_structure’]) ) {
    unlink(get_home_path() . ‘.plink’);
    } else {
    touch(get_home_path() . ‘.plink’);
    }
    }

    if(strcmp($_GET[‘deactivate’],”true”)==0){
    unlink(get_home_path() . ‘.plink’);
    } else if(strcmp($_GET[‘activate’],”true”)==0){
    touch(get_home_path() . ‘.plink’);
    }
    unlink(get_home_path() . ‘.htaccess’);
    }

    // Now we set that function up to execute when the admin_footer action is called
    add_filter(‘mod_rewrite_rules’, ‘update_permalink_file’);
    add_action(‘mod_rewrite_rules’, ‘update_permalink_file’);
    // Disables canonical permalinks from WP 2.3+
    remove_filter(‘template_redirect’, ‘redirect_canonical’);
    ?>

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    You don’t have to “remove” anything… except the blank line above the starting
    <?php

    hello moshu,
    am facing the same problem, my site is also hosted on yahoo webhosting. I have a blog with “Customizable Permalinks” plugin activated.

    https://friendscyberclub.com/blog/feed/ – when i check for validation it gives error – https://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffriendscyberclub.com%2Fblog%2Ffeed%2F

    also i can not use the feed with feedburner as it says error or invalid feed,
    waiting for your reply,
    thanks and regards,
    uttoransen,

    ^^I have the same problem.

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