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My wife’s Pet Blog readers is increasing gradually after 1 month blogging. The highest RSS subscribers hit 20 readers on yesterday. I think this is quite a good progress for a one month plus blog.

Since she know nothing about wordpress and php coding, I am the one who maintain the blog. If you have subscribed to her RSS feed at Dogtist.com, I am sure you have not get the correct feed since 3 weeks ago.

Feed Error with Chinese Character

I have noted the feed error but no time to look into it until today. The problem is all Chinese character turn to question mark “?”. No matter feed client or email feed, all face the same problem.

At first, I thought it was due to the UTF-8 file format problem in one of the plugin. I have changed some characters in the plugin to Chinese word. But somehow, it does not work even I have change it back.

Secondly, I suspect it was due to some new plugin problem. I have disable some plugin and try and error. But result still the same. Finally, I use FeedValidator.org to verify the feed. It shows some “high bit character” error in the post content. The so call “high bit character” is combination of Chinese character and ASCII symbols. I changed all those symbols to UTF-8 characters. (more…)

Popularity: 9% [?]

Huh~ Finally it’s over. It was really a nightmare for me. The feed redirection error happened last week cause me spent so much time on it. Not only wasting my time, energy and spirit, my feed reader drop down tremendously. Since I have use most of my time to check on feed error instead of blogging, I have no article throughout the weekend.

How to Resolve?

The temporary solution that I mentioned in my previous post - Feed Redirection Error is incorrect. Eventually, the redirection method that I use make my rss subscribers unable to feed any post. So, do not ever try to use the redirection method when you have feed error! I have disabled the redirection plugin.

After check on feedburner’s forum and Google, there is not much help. Their situation are differ from mine. I thought it was due to php coding space line problem. After check on my wp rss php codes, all looks fine. At last, I do a query on my wordpress mysql database for the word http://AhTim.com/feed/. It prompt me some results, including the setting at AntiLeech plugin.

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Popularity: 6% [?]

Really busy after come back from my leave on Monday. Lots of weird problem happened not only at work but also my blog. When I click on my url feed (http://AhTim.com/feed/) by right it should auto redirect to my feedburner url. But it just failed to redirect! My firefox prompt the error page below, “The page isn’t redirecting properly”. Have you experience this feed error before?

I thought it was due to the Feedburner FeedSmith plugin error. I reload the plugin and re-activate it. Still failed. After that, no choice I have to use redirection technique by tweak .htaccess file. Somehow, it still fail to redirect. This is first time it happen to me. I am sure I do not change any blog settings.

Redirect Feed to Feedburner

Instead I suspect it may due to some php coding problem. It is not easy to read through all php codes in my blog theme. After all, I have found a plugin called Redirection. (more…)

Popularity: 9% [?]