Temporary fix for WP Dev Blog Feed (in Dashboard)

Recently, the dev feed got borked by a few extra newlines at the beginning of the feed. This means that the Dashboard will have no dev blog news, and this is a temporary fix until the developers make the fix.

Here are the instructions:

1. Open wp-admin/index.php

2. Go to line 114, which should be something like this:
$rss = @fetch_rss(‘https://www.ads-software.com/development/feed/’);

3. Change the URI to https://shorty114.net/misc/devfeed.php:
$rss = @fetch_rss(‘https://shorty114.net/misc/devfeed.php’);

4. Save the file, and all should be fine!

Just in case you were wondering, this feed is updated realtime from the blog – it isn’t a static copy.

The Technical mumbo-jumbo:

Basically, this script takes the dev feed RSS and strips the newlines at the beginning of the file, and so then the RSS feed works again.