RSS button has started linking to a blank page at Feedburner

  • I am not expert on rss/feeds etc. I have been using Feedburner to help readers subscribe, and the subscribe-by-email form seem to work, but the rss button now links to a blank page.

    This is the URL that leads to a blank page:
    https://feeds.feedburner.com/speechtalk

    This is the page on my blog where I have the button.
    https://www.englishspeechservices.com/blog/?page_id=110

    Feedvalidator says the links are OK.

    I have spent most of a day trying to find solutions to this online, but I understand very few of them. I’ve tried de-activating and re-activating Feedburner FeedSmith (which I have installed even though I don’t understand what it is).

    Any suggestions gratefully received. If they involve editing code, please be as explicit as possible about what and where. THANKS.

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  • Thread Starter deadpeasant

    (@deadpeasant)

    Many thanks for taking an interest.

    I started another thread on my hacking problem but that’s gone cold, so may I ask you another question?

    I backed up the hacked blog directory, deleted it on the server and used EasyWP Installer to install a newer version of WP (the reason I previously had an older version (I think it was 3.1.4) was that my host couldn’t handle the higher-level PHP, but when I told my host yesterday about the hacking they moved me to another server).

    However I couldn’t get into my dashboard with the new version (wouldn’t accept my password), so I gave up, deleted the newer blog directory and re-uploaded my backed-up blog directory with the older WP version (better to have a partly-functional hacked blog than none at all). But then I couldn’t even get the login window. When I went to this link
    https://www.englishspeechservices.com/blog/wp-login.php
    I got “Error establishing a database connection”.

    I have zero expectation of being able to de-hack the blog, so all I want now is to put the hacked blog back up and leave it there with commenting disabled (the hack manifested itself when readers tried to leave comments) so people can at least read the old posts. (If I build up the motivation to resume blogging, I may start again at wp.com or blogspot, but I never wanted to do that the first place since I wanted a blog within my website.)

    PS It’s only now becoming clear to me that I have no idea how WP works. How I ran a blog for several months is beyond me. I don’t know what or where my database is, nor whether I can reconstruct my blog posts. Assuming that the blog is history, I would quite like to put the content on my website as non-blog articles. But I have no idea how to access the content.

    Are you sure that you installed WordPress in the correct folder? I cannot find any sign of it at https://www.englishspeechservices.com/blog

    Since your old blog used WP 3.1.4, you need to start by re-installing this same version. I’d suggest that you don’t use an installer script but install WP manually. Download 3.1.4 to your computer, unpack it, rename the wordpress folder to blog, then upload the lot to your site’s root domain folder. Then run the installation using https://www.englishspeechservices.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php

    Thread Starter deadpeasant

    (@deadpeasant)

    Thank you. Sorry if it wasn’t appropriate to start a new thread. I’ll try to follow your suggestions right now.

    Thread Starter deadpeasant

    (@deadpeasant)

    Good news: Followed your instructions and have got to my old dashboard, which looks like it used to: posts all listed etc. Phew, thank you.

    Bad news: The hack seems to be more fundamental now than before, in that various actions just lead to blank pages. For instance, this link
    https://www.englishspeechservices.com/blog/
    leads to a blank page.

    I can list my posts and edit them, but if I click view, I get a blank page again.

    So it seems that I don’t have the ‘last resort’ option of just keeping the semi-functional hacked blog online so readers could at least read the old posts.

    Now that my host has upgraded my server, should I try upgrading WP from my dashboard? Or will that just give me an upgraded hacked blog? Thanks for this help.

    A Securi scan shows that the hacks are still all there. Scan results. Upgrading will just give you an upgraded hacked blog. ??

    Did you follow through the instructions at the links I posted yesterday?
    Do you have any pre-hack database backups?
    Can you try switching to the 2011 theme and resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin?

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