WordPress 2.7 Broken RSS Feed Problem
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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11 Responses to “WordPress 2.7 Broken RSS Feed Problem”
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Tysune on December 29th, 2008
w00t
It is fixed!
And thus, the comment spam. lol
Eastwood on December 29th, 2008
Replying to all of them was hard work!
Thanks for subscribing and dropping by.
adrian on January 10th, 2009
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?
Eastwood on January 11th, 2009
Under the WP admin panel: Tools –> Excerpt Editor –> Auto-Generate –> uncheck “or in the RSS feeds”.
Adam on February 20th, 2009
I have this same problem but I’m not using the Excerpt Editor plugin. Any ideas for me?
Eastwood on February 20th, 2009
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?
rharris on September 6th, 2009
FYI, if you use the “Yet Another Related Post Plugin”, it will break your RSS. Disable it.
Eastwood on September 7th, 2009
Thanks for the heads-up — though, the latest version of YARP works fine with WordPress
bootlegger on November 13th, 2009
Thanks for that extra bit of info rharris!
bootlegger on November 13th, 2009
Thanks. This solution saved me tons of headaches. I couldn’t understand why the sudden breakdown in feed. Much appreciated.
Dhany on December 14th, 2009
Thanks. This completely solve my problem.