ZillaoftheRsistance

Well the feedburner finally updated with my last post, but now my original feed is busted again. LOL At least I know the problem is definitely with headway now and I can pester them to deal with it. ??
We’ll see if the feedburner updates when i do a new blog post. I figure, now that I know what the problem is, worst case scenario has me un and re installing my theme when I have a new blog post and want the syndication stuff to update. LOL Hopefully the tech people at headway can keep me from having to do all of that, because I don’t think they’d want some grumpy blogger telling everyone about what a PITA it is to get an RSS feed to update using that theme if they don’t.
??

Someone turned up in Headway’s support forum who helped me.
Eventually what solved the problem was deleting my Headway theme, and then downloaind and installing it again.
Apparently a line of code has gotten in somewhere that screwed everything up.
All fixed now (fingers crossed).
Thank you again for taking the time to try to help me. I truly do appreciate it.

Headway’s support forum didn’t think it was a Headway problem.

Feedburner & Google forums don’t answer anyone. I don’t think there’s any people there except for folks having the same problems I’m having.
They don’t use leafs anymore, there’s a place in the HW dashboard to put a feedburner RSS feed link, but that goes back to my original problem that feedburner is unable to pull new posts because the original feed it pulls from is busted.

I tried uploading the new file I’d made to try to create a new feed to my server, but that didn’t help anything.

I have wasted so many hours upon hours trying to fix this or find answers and it’s like I am beating my head against a wall.

But I do truly appreciate YOU taking the time to come and talk to me and try to help me, kmessinger, thank you so very much, it means a lot to me. I am just so frustrated, but I am grateful to you for finding this thread! ??

So this is the code that I made and saved as a text file:

[Code moderated as per the Forum Rules. The maximum number of lines of code that you can post in these forums is ten lines. Please use the pastebin]

Can someone tell me if I did it right? And if so, WHERE do I put it now?

SO I found direction to write my own code for a new feed, and it says the next step is to upload it to my site. I know how to access my FTP but I do not know where I should put the new file.
Here’s where I found the direction, I have copied them into a text document and changed all the sample urls provided to my own:
https://www.xul.fr/en-xml-rss.html#building-feed
Now what?

Well I’m glad the comments feed works, but I don’t know who’d be interested in that, it only shows who has linked to me since I use DISQUS for actual comments.
I have never been able to understand what parent and child themes are. I use Headway which is like a blank theme and then I used its Visual Editor to create the blocks for everything on the site (header, widgets sidebars, etc). I don’t know if that makes it a parent or a child.

I don’t know what to make of the stuff in the codex post you linked. I just don’t understand. I apologize for my tech illiteracy.

Where would I stick that code on the page you linked and what would I need to change in it to make it work? (I see some acme stuff that I imagine is just an example?)

deactivating the plug-ins didn’t change anything, and I am using a Headway theme that I paid for and then designed the layout myself with because the Twenty-Eleven theme didn’t have what I needed, in fact, none of the free themes do. I think upgrading to the latest wp version may have something to do with this problem because i did not have this issue a few days ago.
When I use Feedburner says the problem is with my original feed, which I got from wordpress https://marezilla.com/feed
FeedValidator now says there’s a 404 error but it had previously stated it was a self reference problem. Here is the code it provides, but it does not say where I can go or what I can do to fix it:

Sorry

This feed does not validate.

Server returned HTTP Error 404: Not Found [help]

Source: https://marezilla.com/feed

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<rss version=”2.0″
xmlns:content=”https://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/&#8221;
xmlns:wfw=”https://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/&#8221;
xmlns:dc=”https://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/&#8221;
xmlns:atom=”https://www.w3.org/2005/Atom&#8221;
xmlns:sy=”https://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/&#8221;
xmlns:slash=”https://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/&#8221;
>

<channel>
<title>Zilla of the Resistance at MareZilla.com</title>
<atom:link href=”https://marezilla.com/feed&#8221; rel=”self” type=”application/rss+xml” />
<link>https://marezilla.com</link&gt;
<description></description>
<lastBuildDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 14:14:32 +0000</lastBuildDate>
<language>en</language>
<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
<generator>https://www.ads-software.com/?v=3.3.2</generator&gt;
</channel>
</rss>

There are urls in those codes that I did not put there and I have no idea where they came from. I think THEY are the problem but I don’t know how to get rid of them.

Is there a way to write a new file to create a new original feed for my site that my syndication tools can use to pull from instead of the broken one I have now? Like in my FTP or php files or something?

I found instructions to make a file (I think) but I don’t know where I would put it once it’s created. I do NOT want to have to redesign my site all over again, I just want my blog’s updates to show up in blogrolls and readers where follow it.

I have spent well over a 18 hours searching for a solution and nobody seems to know or want to tell anyone how to fix it.
My original feed appears to be irreparably broken, so how can I make a NEW one that WORKS for all of my syndication services to pull from?
Can somebody PLEASE tell me?

People are still complaining that they can’t see my blog posts on the ipad, they can see the homepage with the list of links to posts, but when they click to see a post, it loads and then a big square shows up and blocks all the text! I noticed this on my android tablet too. I have tried everything I can think of and every plug-in that has been suggested, nothing gets rid of that stupid box! Please, somebody help me with this.

I have the same issue. What to I do once I am in my FTP files to fix it? If you could explain it in “for dummies” terms I can understand, I’d appreciate it.

OK, I fixed it! In case this happens to anyone else, MOST of my plug-ins would not work, and that is because the url to my blog and the wordpress address for it in “settings” were different and also because an index.php file was not in the right place on my server. So if you find yourself with similar problems, you may want to look at those things on your stuff too.

Thank you again for your help! After many hours and much tinkering on my part and that of the very nice tech support people at Hostway, I got it all fixed up and the blog is live exactly where I wanted it to be. ??

Thank you so very much.

Thank you so very much for getting back to me so quickly! I don’t know if the “changes” are from them, I think I am the ding-a-ling who screwed it all up, but I will call them and ask them to take it out and put up a new one so I can hopefully start over and NOT screw it up next time. ??
Wish me luck!
Thanks again!

Thank you for responding! I tried that last night and it still doesn’t work. I had not gone ‘live’ with the blog yet so my host, after helping me install worrdpress, tech support at my hosting company had me going to marezilla.com/index.php to get to my dashboard as the regular “marezilla.com” url goes to an old web page that my new blog will be replacing. Now when I click to do anything, I get re-directed here:
https://marezilla.com/index/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fmarezilla.com%2Fwp-admin%2Foptions-general.php&reauth=1
After trying it again but telling it in the php file to go to:
https://marezilla.com/index.php
It now goes to that old webpage that I’ll be replacing with my blog (if I can ever get my dashboard back) but doing anything from the one tab I have that little useless piece of my dashboard in still goes tot he redirect insanity.
The only access I have to my dashboard is from my “back” button and it is only the page with “general settings” that I can look at, clicking anything else goes to the redirect. I am afraid to close my browser because I may never get back in! But changing anything in “general settings” and saving does nothing but send me to a redirect page. I edited the php using filezilla as suggested, but there is no change.
Is there a “for dummies” way to fix it?
Would having my host remove wordpress altogether and then install a fresh download be helpful at this point?
I have Hostway so there was no “five minute installation”, it was more like five hours and even the tech support people had a hard time.
Should I be typing something else when I edit the php code? I am so confused.