Audio File for Feedburner, Wordpress, and the RSS Feed
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For you Wordpress and Feedburner users:
I’ve been a long time fan of Feedburner. But one day, my feed magically broke. I recreated the feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/RjMartinosWebLog) and pointed it (rjmartino.com/wp-rss2.php).
Then, as I started creating new posts, I realized that nothing was being sent to feedburner. When I viewed my feedburner page, it was BLANK. When I logged into Blogline, my feed was blank.
I checked the Original Feed Validity. It checked out just fine…
I checked the FeedBurner Feed Validity. It checked out just fine.
I even re-synced… nothing.
I searched forums and found a guy named Rajasekharan at http://www.mtherald.com. Rajasekharan had fixed the same problem but he didn’t list the fix. So I visited his medical transcription blog, found his email address, and shot him an email.
He was really helpful. He explained that when he setup his feedburner feed, he gave the URL of his original feed (ie http://mtherald.com/blog/wp-rss.php). As he later found out, that was the blunder.
After changing the RSS feed to the correct URL, http://mtherald.com/?feed=rss2. It was solved.
I did the exact same thing. I set feedburner to look at http://wwww.rjmartino.com/wp-rss.php. The feed should have been set to http://www.rjmartino.com/?feed=rss2.
After changing the setting, I “pinged” the page using http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/ping, and a few minutes later, my feeds showed back up!
Hey Martino,
Thanks for the mention. I didn’t do any hilarious task here. It’s my pleasure helping the needful without spending a dime.
Wow – I’ve been searching for this answer for days, and the latest feedburner discussion group shows that they aren’t really paying attention as many people have asked similar questions and they weren’t even answered.
But I just found your post, did what you suggested and it worked! Thank you!
Glad I could help! I understand your frustration, the problem was so weird that it was difficult to even search for a proper answer.
I just ran across your post as I am having the same problem. However, my feed is from blogger and so your fix doesn’t work. Any ideas on what I can do as feedburner is not helpful.
Jenne – That’s the one problem with free services… there’s no one to complain to
That problem happened so long ago that I can’t remember. I’d be happy to talk about it over the phone if you want to call me at 501-859-6035.