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April Fools and RSS

4/1/2006 By Michael

Posts in the "Asides" category are short micro-blog posts. These were an early custom version of an update before Twitter/Facebook. Just a title, there is no additional text.

Filed Under: Asides Tagged With: April-Fools, rss

Filed Under: Asides Tagged With: April-Fools, rss

WordPress 2.0 and Mod-rewrites

1/21/2006 By Michael

I discovered the hard way, that if you have built an audience subscribed to a custom rss extension, you might need to think twice before upgrading your WordPress install. WordPress has changed the way it handles the feeds from the site. The old /wp-rss2.php file is still there, but frankly that is an ugly extension. On this and my other sites I have always used a rewrite so that people could pull the RSS feed at mwgblog.com/rss.xml. Turns out WordPress 2.0 breaks this. Buried somewhere in the permalink building code it causes a 404 error to be posted to the header breaking aggregators. Interestingly it will display in the browser and only seems to effect rewrites to the feeds. All the other rewrites work just fine. A few other people have posted in detail about this problem. Of course, you find this out once you have already done the upgrade. I don’t know that it is a high priority fix; 2.0 is new and they have bigger fish to fry. If you are a php expert, feel free to dig into the classes.php file, my guess is that is where the problem lies.

So how did I fix it? It’s complicated. I have a script that scrapes the wp-rss2.php file and posts it to a static xml file. I then changed the rewrite to point /rss.xml to the static xml file. That is a pain the ass way of doing it, but it works.

I am still hopeful someone with PHP prowess will care enough to find the real fix.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: rewrite, rss, Wordpress

Filed Under: General Tagged With: rewrite, rss, Wordpress

KX6A – amateur radio callsign

KX6A

Yaesu FT1D SOTA Trail Card

FT1D SOTA Trail Card

My Books

Podcast Solutions

The Business Podcasting Book

RSS KX6A

  • KX6A Amateur Radio Goals – 2018
  • KX6A Radio Goal Results for 2017
  • SOTA W6/SS-224, Peak 11,100

RSS Reel Reviews Radio

Produced By


GigaVox Media, Inc.

Links

  • GigaVox Media
  • KX6A
  • Reel Reviews Radio

Recent

  • Radio and SOTA moved to KX6A.com
  • SOTA W6/SC-405, Sugarloaf
  • SOTA W6/CT-172, Sitton Peak
  • Podcast Domains For Sale
  • SOTA W6/CT-056, Iron Mountain

About

Michael W. Geoghegan is founder and CEO of GigaVox Media.

As a pioneer of podcasting, Michael created some of the first corporate podcasts, including efforts by Disney. Michael is also creator of the 2008 & 2011 James Beard Award winning "GrapeRadio" and "Reel Reviews: Films Worth Watching."

He is editor-in-chief of the Podcast Academy™ book series and co-author of Podcast Solutions: The Complete Guide to Podcasting.

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