RSS in 2.0.2 Not Working

Remove the “feed:” from the beginning of the url (edit your theme’s sidebar.php). That will allow you to see the feed in your browser.

Looked ok to me.

Seems to validate reasonably well. https://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcolossusofcomedy.com%2F%3Ffeed%3Drss2

You have the “CDATA” thing going on that seems to have been introduced with a recent WP release, but most readers will handle that fine.

Thank you, very much. That did it. I would have never figured that out.

I suppose this will be picked up by other people easier now, correct.

Thanks again.

tss

Hello,

I followed this advice (removed “feed:” from the URLs in sidebar.php) but now when I click the link my feed reader gives me this message:

“The page you requested, n/a, caused an unexpected error.

Error number: n/a”

The my blog is https://projectlunchbreak.com

Using latest 1.5x of Firefox, I see your RSS just fine.
Added it to Bloglines and that seemed to like it too.

Not entirely sure what to suggest… out of curiosity what feed reader are you using?

Pluck. Could that be my problem?

Err, dunno much about Pluck. However, I do know that WP will spit out a couple flavors of RSS…

Try it with https://projectlunchbreak.com/?feed=rss (for the older version of RSS or
https://projectlunchbreak.com/?feed=atom (not positive about that url…) for Atom instead of RSS.

I’m also using 2.02 and I can’t get the RSS to work. I get URLs like https://infocynic.opennet.us/feed/?http_auth=yes

And no authorization will work. If I remove http_auth, it works fine, but the URL is being formed by <a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>"><?php _e( 'Full' ); ?></a> … so it looks like the blog thinks that http auth should be on for rss … how can I change that short of hacking the theme file directly?

Blog address: https://infocynic.opennet.us
Theme: Regulus

InfoCynic, what’s the goofy password management system you have wrapped around everything? That’s what’s goofing up your feed url.

I don’t know. I just switched to this hosting provider… I have no unusual plugins installed…

The only thing different about this provider than my last one is that PHP is run as a CGI under my user permissions instead of as an Apache module… and that shouldn’t make a difference.

Can you give me any idea of where to look?

Looks like you got it sorted out? No more “non-WP” login prompts and the feed url looks good and even works as expected.

Not if I’m logged in… if I’m logged in, it’s messed up. I tried with two different accounts, one admin and one not.

I created a test user wp_forum_test with password test123 … anybody testing can use it as needed…

… ok, that’s weird and I’m stumped. Logging in adds “?http_auth=yes” to your feed url. I’m clueless – never seen that before.

The post_levels plugin was rewriting the URLs so that (theoretically) a registered user could view protected/private posts over RSS if authenticated. I disabled its feature to rewrite feed links and it’s better now. That the feature doesn’t work is sad, but I can live without it. ??