RSS2 Feed Not Working – No Feed Found

OK.

This
http://jeansboutiqueandwigs.com/blog/?feed=rss2
gets redirected to this:
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%20JeansBoutiqueAndWigsBlog

See that %20 in there? Somewhere, either in your feedburner plugin config or in .htaccess you have an extra leading space. Find and fix that and you’re golden I think.

Thanks.

I don’t think it’s the plugin, because the problem existed before I loaded it. And the Feedburner feed is working.

What file is .htaccess? What’s the full filename? What folder is it located in?

Sorry…I’m a WordPress novice.

Thanks again for the response.

.htaccess is named … .htaccess. ??

If you have one, you’ll find it in your main WordPress directory. Since files that start with a “.” are considered hidden, you’ll need to make sure you are showing hidden files if using an FTP client to look for it.

The Feedburner feed link will work regardless of if you have a Feedburner plugin active or not. All the plugin does is redirect requests for your blog’s feeds to the feedburner URL. If the feedburner plugin is currently activated, you definitely want to look at its configuration first.

Hilarious! Thanks! I’ll dig into this a little later today and reply with an update. Thanks for the WordPress for Morons Class!! LOL

Thanks for your help and time, Chris! That totally worked!

For others with this same problem and reading this post, here’s what happened and how to fix the problem.

Root Cause: Somehow an extra space was inserted into the feed URL that was posted on the plugin configuration page.

Solution:
First be sure to install the Feedburner Feedsmith plugin and follow the configuration instructions. As Chris states above, the plugin will capture the users feed request and attempt to redirect it to your Feedburner feed. In my case, the extra space caused the problem.

To correct the problem:
From your WP Dashboard go to Settings->Feedburner. The page will say “Setup Your Feedburner Feed” at the top.

Next, verify the Feedburner address in the first box does not contain any spaces and follows this format: https://feeds.feedburner.com/yourfeed

My incorrect feed address was: https://feeds2.feedburner.com/ JeansBoutiqueAndWigsBlog notice the space before Jean’s.

The correct feed addres is:
https://feeds2.feedburner.com/JeansBoutiqueAndWigsBlog and is now working correctly.

Thanks again for your time, Chris! You’ve put us back in business!

Oops! I spoke too soon! We’re now able to subscribe to our feed and following the links and pages Feedburner creates, we’re able to get all the way to our Google Reader account. But only our older posts are showing up. New posts are not.

Here’s our current settings and the behavior we’re experiencing:
1. Permalinks: Default
2. RSS2 Feed: https://jeansboutiqueandwigs.com/blog/?feed=rss2
3. Feedburner feed: https://feeds2.feedburner.com/JeansBoutiqueAndWigsBlog
4. New posts are showing the wrong date. If post today (3/21), the posting date is showing up as 3/22.

I’ve tried creating a new Feedburner feed, same behavior. Then I deleted both the old and new feeds, and reestablished the original feed, same behavior.

So the problem isn’t Feedburner. Something must be wrong with the feed coming out of WP? I can’t find a .htaccess file in any folder, even with hidden files showing.

Deactivating the Feedburner Feedsmith plugin and using the RSS2 at Google Reader is working, but this isn’t the process I want my new subscribers to go through.

Should I try completly deleting the Feedburner Feedsmith plugin and reinstalling? Would other plugins cause a conflict? I currently have Customizable Permalinks, Twitter Tools, and Sociable running. Disabling these did not cure the problem in the past.

Thanks in advance for even MORE help! Argh!

Signed,
Frustrated and Getting Pss’d Off in Michigan

With default Permalinks you may not have (nor need) an .htaccess file. So don’t worry too much about missing it.

When I view your feed (which gets properly redirected to feedburner). I see the same test post that is currently the newest test post on your blog. In other words, from my perspective at this time it appears that everything is properly working.

I have no clue how often Google Reader will check your blog for updates, so testing any sort of “real time” updating with that is sketchy, at best. Easier to hit the feed with a browser and then View Source to have a look at what’s really going on (XML isn’t really that scary, right?)

As for the time issue you mentioned: Have you got your blog set to the proper time? Log into your blog’s admin area and visit Settings -> General to make sure you have the proper time offset specified.

And finally (and probably not related): What is “Customizable Permalinks” — and why are you using it?

OK, thanks for the info on the .htaccess file.

Yea, when I look at the feed source code or view the feed directly, I see my latest post. But nothing has been showing up in Google Reader for hours. Which is strange because when I was using Blogger, the posts would show up right away in Reader. (maybe because they’re both Google products?) And if I didn’t see the post, clicking on the blog title in Reader would pull it in. For giggles, I just clicked on the Refresh button in Reader and now the posts are showing up!! Hmmm…I’m skeptical. I’ll put up a few other test posts tomorrow and keep an eye on this.

So it looks like Feedburner is ok and the feed coming out of the blog is now ok. Maybe Reader is sick or under maintenance? I’ll see how it behaves over time.

I’ll take a look at the time settings. Seems like it was working ok the other day. I’ll test and check it.

Customizable Permalinks is a PlugIn that I loaded when I first put the WP blog together. Looked popular. I guess I don’t need it. Once we get everything stable and running, I’ll take it down.

Thanks again for your time and patience!

Chris – I think we’re good. I did test posts in Blogger and WP to see if the delay issue was at Google Reader. The Blogger posts are showing up in minutes, so it’s not Google. The WP posts are showing up in hours, but they do eventually show up. Good enough for us.

I also found the issue with post time…you were right, it was in our settings. Now the correct post time is showing up.

Looks like all is working correctly. Thanks again for your help and time!

And now, back to our regularly scheduled program…..