My stupidity amazes me.
Feb-6-2008
Ok. Here’s the deal. I’m dumb.
I’ve been trying to figure out this RSS stuff for awhile and apparently I’ve been doing it wrong. Actually I read the Feedburner stuff wrong. I had my RSS feed button linking to this:
http://wowguildbank.com/wtf/?feed=rss
INSTEAD OF THIS:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Wtflux
So, if you were nice enough to subscribe to my RSS feed, check to make sure you have the CORRECT feed which again, is:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Wtflux
Thanks, and sorry.
Posted under WTF
Hey, I’m even stoopider. I didn’t even know that feedburner existed. Now that I have an account though, I can tell you you are still doing it wrong (sorry). That button is nice and all, but you and my grandma are the only ones who use a button like that to subscribe to feeds. Everyone else clicks the little icon in the URL bar, and yours still points to the default wordpress feed. Go to feedburner and find out how to integrate feedburner with wordpress. It’s really simple (takes like five minutes) but you do have to install the feedburner plugin into your wordpress install (it seriously is just like 4 or 5 steps though, very easy).
I’m willing to bet too that your post-getting-cut-off issues have nothing to do with wordpress and everything to do with how you have your feed set up to burn. Check around in feedburner, one location you might look at is the “optimize” tab > “summary burner” section. It (obviously) should be “inactive”.
I’ll see what I can do about the other feed, but I’m 100% certain the feedburner portion isn’t an issue. I’ll test it though - and run a post without the feedburner post and one with just to see.
Check out the thread over at the blogazeroth place I started and everything I’ve done since then:
http://www.blogazeroth.com/viewtopic.php?t=161
and to follow up - on the RSS formatting:
http://www.blogazeroth.com/viewtopic.php?t=433
I’m stumped.
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