Empty WordPress RSS feeds

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Last week, my colleagues and I have decided to read and review each other’s blogs, in an attempt to reinforce blogging amongst the team.  I wanted to prepare my blog’s RSS feed so that it’d be easy for a tool to aggregate all our feeds together into one syndication.  I went to my blog’s RSS 2.0 feed in my browser and was unpleasantly surprised.

Truncated RSS Feed

Where are all my posts?  I also checked my atom feed and it was even worse, it showed up completely blank in my browser!  I tried to add the feed into my Google Reader and it came up fine, which was a bit confusing.

A quick Google search produced others in the same situation, and I didn’t see any real solutions or fixes for it.  I think Scoble’s rant pretty much summed up the problem, that the WordPress RSS feed doesn’t validate, and shows up differently in browsers and such.  That explains why it came up empty in FireFox but displays correctly once added to a feed reader.

Luckily I don’t have nearly enough readers to complain about my feed being quirky.  I think WordPress would (hopefully) have this issue fixed before my blog grows to that proportion.

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14 Responses to “Empty WordPress RSS feeds”

Hey man,

did your feed look something like this?

http://www.midnightshift.customspacelayouts.com/?feed=rss2

blank. haha. my header.php template file is being included into my xml file. Have you heard anything on this matter?

Thanks for your time. cheers.

Comment by Jeff — May 26, 2008 @ 6:41 pm

RSS feeds are really great because you are always updated with the latest news or blog posts.”,;

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RSS feeds are really great if you want to stay updated ‘-:

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