After upgrading to WordPress 2.7, my RSS feeds mysteriously stopped working. When viewing the feed from Firefox, nothing shows up; when viewing from IE, I’m simply left with an error message.
I scoured the web, attempting to find a solution. There were numerous mentions of extra white spaces in certain WordPress config files which could have been the cause. However, this did not seem to be the cause of the problem in my case.
At last, I resolved the problem. The root of all evil? Excerpt Editor 1.3.
Diagnosis
I used the Feed Validator to analyse my feed. Initially, I was greeted with the following error message:
unclosed CDATA section
This allowed me to examine my XML feed file. It turned out that line 30 of the file was incomplete.
Solution
Since I’m using the Excerpt Editor editor plugin to modify both my homepage and feed, I tried to turn off the RSS-formating option. Lo and behold, my feed sprang back to life!
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It is fixed!
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where do you turn off the rss formatting option from? i have the same problem because i just upgraded, but don’t understand why and if they rss links changed or they’re just not working?
Under the WP admin panel: Tools –> Excerpt Editor –> Auto-Generate –> uncheck “or in the RSS feeds”.
I have this same problem but I’m not using the Excerpt Editor plugin. Any ideas for me?
Your problem seems to be different from mine (whereas mine wasn’t displaying at all, yours is not updating).
Try making sure that source of the feed is correct?
FYI, if you use the “Yet Another Related Post Plugin”, it will break your RSS. Disable it.
Thanks for the heads-up — though, the latest version of YARP works fine with WordPress
Thanks for that extra bit of info rharris!
Thanks. This solution saved me tons of headaches. I couldn’t understand why the sudden breakdown in feed. Much appreciated.
Thanks. This completely solve my problem.