RSS Issue /feed vs /wp-rss2.php

Hello – anyone, anything?

It’s not an error, it’s a security feature…

Really, not sure, I have seen the same thing. Very annoying to have certain things work and then just disappear without comment.

Yea – it is very annoying. I tracked it down:

Change the rewrite.php and version.php files in your wp-includes folder. The changes are noted here – https://trac.www.ads-software.com/changeset/7843

You must log-in to your blog and it will prompt you to update your database.

This will fix it. Of course the changeset file has no notation the you must log-in to your blog to trigger the update so I wasted a few hours when I would have had it fixed it 5 minutes.

It will be fixed in 2.5.2.

But realistically, you should no longer be using direct links like /wp-rss2.php and such. These are deprecated in favor of the /feed type links, or the ?feed=rss2 links if you use default permalinks.

Hey Otto – thanks for the info. If I want to parse a feed into another page, what is the best format to use, or does it matter?