simplymother

Ahh, thanks. alchymth, I think those link’ll help.

Um, hi, porn site. Goodness, and to think I was all excited I might be able to answer this question and actually be helpful here for once.

Ok, thanks y’all. I’ve played with the flower some, and I think it’s a little better. I’ve been messing with some nasty feed problems, but I think I’m finally going to go ahead and announce the site on my other blog and get going. Any other feedback, still welcome!

Sorry,k I probably shouldn’t have done this, but I ended up starting a new topic here:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/380261?replies=10

Thanks for offering what you know though.

Well, I think I must have activated it when I reinstalled wordpress on that same domain, and had all the old files still in a database. Even though they weren’t officially posted on my site this time around.

So now maybe I need to wait 90 days to let it expire again? But it wouldn’t expire if I start posting at that domain again, right?

I just don’t get why they disappeared from my other blog as soon as I deleted the database and uninstalled WP there, but it’s not working for this one.

Well, I took it down the first time over 2 years ago. I don’t know if the feed was still there this whole time or not because I never checked. But I just reinstalled WP on it and burned a feed, and found all my old posts. Turns out, I never deleted the database (didn’t know I had such a thing!) so all those old things (including posts that were originally posted when my blog was set to private) showed up on the feed.

Last night I uninstalled WP again and deleted everything. Nothing happened. But I did the exact same thing to a different blog domain, and within minutes the old feed was gone from google reader. That’s why I don’t understand what’s going on with this domain.

Anyway, WP is back up again, and I have made a webmaster account with google and will try more things tonight. Though I haven’t found any thing about deleting feeds yet.

How? Can you actually contact Google? I have been searching, but have no idea how.

And would I need to contact ALL the feedreaders? I know it’s showing up in Bloglines too, for instance.

The domain is ponderingparenting.com

In google reader, if I try to add ponderingparenting.com/feed, it says there isn’t one. Same if I enter any of the feedburner feeds I created (and deleted).

BUT, if I just enter ponderingparenting.com, it brings up everything that’s ever been on that site. Over 200 posts.

Why? Where is it coming from? How do I get rid of it?

I guess no one has any ideas? I’m not sure if this is just a really complicated/weird problem, or if no one has really noticed this thread?

I’ve deleted/created the feed several times in Feedburner, tried Resyncing, and everything. I now have it so that the feed I created does NOT have all those old posts in it, so if someone clicks on the rss link on my site, they will see the feed with only the recent posts in it.

BUT…

If you just type in ponderingparenting.com into Google Reader, the feed that show up has all the recent stuff first, but then all the old, deleted posts are still there if you scroll down. Why, why WHY?

If I delete my entire database and start over, then will they be gone?

If there is no database for the feed to point to, what will happen? Will there be no feed at all? What happens to a feed once a website is completely deleted?

And if I can manage to get rid of everything by deleting the database, when I start posting again, will all those old posts be right back again?

Is there any way of contacting Feedburner? Is there anybody who can help me?

Ok, we figured out we were adding them to the wrong (old) database. Now we’ve created 6000 posts in the current database and most of the posts are gone!

But . . . some of them are still showing up. Some of the stupidest ones, too, unfortunately.

What could be the cause? We have no idea where to go next.

The only other clue we have is this:

I had another domain before this one. The domain in question is called ponderingparenting.com. You can go there, I’ve been working on the design and trying to get it all ready. This is the one I had that I deleted 2 years ago, that had all the embarrassing posts on it. But before that, I had a blog at lollymom.com. When I switched to ponderingparenting, I imported everything from lollymom and probably had the feed redirected as well. I no longer have lollymom at all.

Well, I’ve been using GoogleReader, but I decided to check bloglines to see if all those old posts showed up there. When I typed in “ponderingparenting.com” Bloglines gave me three feed options for it–and two of them were for lollymom.com! Looking at the posts in those feeds–they are the same ones that are still appearing in my ponderingparenting feed at google reader!

I have no idea what direction to take next. Why would lollymom.com/feed still be pointing to ponderingparenting? And if those feeds are cached, how could I edit them?

And if you’ve listened to this long, horrible saga, thank you very much, and if you have any ideas, they would be oh so appreciated. Thanks,
Kate

I think it looks really cool!

The one thing I would consider is that it’s a bit hard to tell where your actual content is at first–you have three really large/populated columns and it took me a minute to figure out where my attention should be focused, you know?

I LOVE it! The hugeness of it is what really sets it apart and makes it memorable. Great job!

You can change your permalink structure in the WordPress dashboard . . . somewhere. Under Settings I think.

I agree it’s very simple, which is nice, but maybe if anything I would dress up the header a little bit. Make the text a little fancy, with a shadow or something?

Oh thank you, this forum is always so helpful!

But . . . we don’t have a backup (that we can find!) I’ve already called the hosting company, and their only backup is too recent.

t31os, my husband did this thing where he recreated all the posts with id’s 1 through like 2600 using the formats you listed above, but still, nothing changed. That is why he assumed the format must be different on the ones we deleted. Could that be the case? If they were written a couple of years ago, has the format perhaps changed since then? Or could the post id’s just be higher than 2600?

Any other ideas?

Actually, never mind. I just upgraded to the latest WP version and it’s gone and all is well. So weird!