Overcoming technical difficulties, or how to look really clever
August 18, 2010Some of you would have received my last post today. Which I sent out via email weeks ago, because my RSS feed was broken.
The good news is I finally found a fix, after many attempts at all the usual solutions, which yielded no results. Thank you, Piotr Krzyzek.
Not as many thanks to Google’s robots, who decided my last post should be sent right out to my email subscribers. Apologies for the duplication.
And, dear reader, if you know someone with a WordPress blog who’s tearing her hair out over a broken RSS feed, you can send her to the good Mr. Krzyzek’s website for a possible fix for her mysterious blank line error when all other fixes have failed. You’ll get to be a tech hero for at least the afternoon, unless she doesn’t know how to muck about with PHP files, in which case it might help if you know how to do that. (Fortunately I have the benefit of IT training, which did nothing for my career path, but bought me a few other bonuses.)
If none of that makes any sense to you, don’t sweat it. And count your blessings. For anyone who’s spent hours trying to fix the infamous blank line error, you have my eternal heartfelt sympathies.
I also have to give credit to the fella, who plugged in a search term I hadn’t thought of and found the silver bullet.
The moral of the story: sometimes the only way to find the answers you need is to ask the right question.
Hey Stacey,
Thanks for the mention, the links and most of all the praise.
I’m very glad that the solution worked for you. Geh, I know when I came across this problem I did actually rip out a few hair trying to find a solution!
“The moral of the story: sometimes the only way to find the answers you need is to ask the right question.” Ah, that is so very true.
Good luck in all your efforts!
–PK
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Stacey Cornelius Reply:
August 19th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
Piotr, I lost track of the number of hours I spent trying to fix the feed problem. I’m just glad I found your solution before I resorted to a clean WordPress install.
All to the best to you as well.
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It can be so frustrating to have malfunctions that just seem impossible to fix – I had to switch my server when my site got hacked earlier in the year and it means I have to manually update my feed for every post – took a few weeks of stress to figure that out!
Anyhow, glad you got it fixed
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