Published by deborah.woehr on 27 Apr 2006 at 09:40 pm
Working Out Some Bugs in the System
Melly was kind enough to tell me that she is having problems viewing my feed in her RSS reader. While the Feedburner link appears to be working okay, the WordPress link isn’t. I’m getting this External Protocol Request whenever I click on the WP RSS link. I’ve experienced this with other blogs when I tried to access their RSS feed.
Poring through the WordPress Codex has proven futile so far. So I posted a support ticket on their forum. I hope that I’ll wake up tomorrow and find either an answer or some direction.
Update: I’ve disabled the Feedburner redirect option and pasted the WP RSS link into a desktop feedviewer. I was able to read this blog’s feed. Will you test the link (below) on your aggregators? I’d like to see if I’ve solved the problem.
http://www.deborahwoehr.com/blog/feed/
Scot Herrick on 28 Apr 2006 at 1:21 pm #
This new URL worked fine for me coming over to Bloglines (the other worked fine too).
Scot
deborah.woehr on 28 Apr 2006 at 5:52 pm #
I’m glad to hear that, Scot. I’m having a heck of a time getting the RSS sidebar link to work on the PC and the Mac. On the Mac, the link automatically launches Safari when I’m in FF. I don’t know why this happens, and WP support couldn’t help me.
On the PC, it gives a 404 message. I never thought I’d spend so much time fixing bugs when I first started writing.
Marti on 29 Apr 2006 at 5:40 am #
I have your feed to My Yahoo, and it was hung up for a week or so on the Easter post, but now it is showing this most recent entry.
Marti on 29 Apr 2006 at 5:42 am #
PS - I hear ya on spending more time on techno-fixes than writing - Ugh!
deborah.woehr on 29 Apr 2006 at 6:00 am #
Thank you so much for telling me, Marti.
I’ve been so frustrated with the RSS bugs on WBA. Now this. I suspected the cause before I left for my vacation. It’s now confirmed. I’ll write about it in another post.