RSS Feed isn’t working?

Remove the portion “feed:” from the rss links!

how do I do that?

Open the footer.php of the theme in a plain text editor (like Notepad) and delete
feed:
(it should be there twice)

I just did that and it still doesn’t work. Go here and see.

https://www.rutickedoff.com/wp-rss2.php

??? ?? ???

Actually, this is your feed address:
https://www.rutickedoff.com/?feed=rss2

You either have blanks space at the beginning of the wp-rss2.php file or a plugin causing that blank.

Firstly, your feed address is actually https://www.rutickedoff.com/feed/ , not that wp-rss2 thing.

Secondly, the reason you get that error is because you have blank lines at the beginning of your feed. The most common cause of this is that you have a plugin with blank lines either at the beginning or end of the plugin. That’s not allowed. Find that plugin and remove those extraneous blank lines.

It could also be the wp-config.php file, or any of the core files, etc. Basically somewhere you have blank lines than you need to find and remove.

You guys were right. I went through all my plugins and removed the spaces. No luck. Went through all the core files. No luck. Checked my my-hacks.php and it had like 10 extra spaces at the end. Took those out and it works like a charm now. Thanks for the help.

I am getting the “Internet Exlorer Can’t display this feed” message, with the More Information being:

An invalid character was found in text content.
Line: 136 Character: 4

<p>

I’m assuming this means sidebar.php where the feed code is inserted (See below). I’ve also removed the feed: lines from the footer.php.

<li>
<a>" title="<?php _e('Syndicate this site using RSS'); ?>"><?php _e('RSS'); ?></a>
</li>
<li>
<a>" title="<?php _e('Syndicate this site using Atom'); ?>"><?php _e('Atom'); ?></a>
</li>

No, the word “feed:” is NOT an invalid character. Invalid characters are the result of
a) editing template files and saving with encoding other than utf-8
b) copying text into the posts from bad programs that don’t support utf-8 character encoding

I believe I’ve found the answer:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364677#c2

Looks like with Firefox 2.0.0.1, any rss feed needs to have its mime type changed.

I just tried this on my blog feed, and it’s working perfectly now. I highly suggest that this fix be rolled out with WordPress 2.0.7, assuming it doesn’t break other things. ??

~~ Andrew D.

Hi All,

I have a similar problem…
I have removed the “feed:” and get
In Firefox..
Not Found
The requested URL /blog/feed/ was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

And in IE7 I get as far as FeedDemon trying to download the RSS link and then it says…unable to download…URL is correct?= or firewall allows download

I have no problem with the firewall for other RSS feeds.

Thanks guys

Further to my last message…
WordPress was installed by…MichaelH https://www.ads-software.com/support/profile/18989 on the
WordPress Support Forums.
He has just emailed me this…
****************************************
Okay see if it is fixed. I may have forgotten to load the fix as described
at
https://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2007/01/06/wordpress-206-feedburner-issue-and-fix/

If that doesn’t fix the problem you will want to report this to the
WordPress Support Forums at https://www.ads-software.com/support/
Michael E. Hancock
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The fix doesn’t work in either IE7 or Firefox.
My blog is…
https://www.med-liv.com/blog
Can anyone help please?

Cheers ,

Mike

Johnes2 – you changed your Permalinks options and that’s what’s causing your issue. Try clicking any other links on your blog.

See the Permalinks page for more information on trouble-shooting.

In particular, ensure your host has mod_rewrite and AllowOverride properly on and enabled for your site.

Hi Handy,

Thanks for your quick reply.

I’m lost…Wordpress did a great job and had Michael install it for me, so I have no idea what and where the permalinks are and how to check that the mod_rewrite and AllowOverride are enabled.

HTML is my limit at the moment!
Sorry, but could you explain for me?

Thanks,

Regards,

Mike

That link I gave explains a lot about Permalinks.

Options -> Permalinks, you might want to set them back to “default” for the time being and see if links work better.

The question about mod_rewrite and AllowOverride is for your host — you’ll want to ask them.