Webloggin » Thanks For Telling Us About those Broken Wordpress Feeds in WP 2.5.1

Webloggin contributor Big Dog notified us of a pretty important bug fix for WordPress users that upgraded to 2.5.1. It turns out that it actually breaks your feeds in a pretty significant manner.

If you upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1 and you use Feedburner there is a possibility that your feeds are no longer working. There is a problem with two of the files and the fix is located here.

After you make the corrections in the two files upgrade your blog to update the database and then ping Feedburner and all should work fine.

To get directly to the files go here.

This is one of those things I’d like to see in the dashboard when I log in. Yeah it’s nice to know that there is a WordPress mug contest and all that but I’d really like to know if my back end feeds are failing because of an upgrade.

Silly me, I never thought to check feedburner or pass my feeds through the very cool Feed Validator after upgrading.

Caution on grabbing those two file fixes from Trac. You can’t simply get them and drop them in, you have to apply the file fixes indicated in them. Dropping a new version.php will force a WordPress database upgrade to bump the corresponding change in version.php.

A quick look at rewrite.php shows that someone munged all the entries starting at line 796 by inserting a / after each array entry linking to the feeds files. For instance .*/wp-atom.php$ should be .*wp-atom.php$.

If you have problems with the fix leave me a comment and I will get the files out.

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