Sand Trap Misdirection and Empty Feeds
Posted January 10th, 2007 @ 06:24pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Two things, both related to The Sand Trap…
One: If you're getting this feed and you expect to be getting a feed for The Sand Trap, please update your feeds to point to http://thesandtrap.com/feed/. I mistakenly copied a .htaccess file that redirected users - some permanently - here to my personal blog.
Two: I've resolved (or worked around) this issue in WordPress at TST by redirecting wp-feed.php files to /feed/format/ (i.e. wp-rss2.php now redirects users to feed/rss2/). I believe the bug is fixed in WordPress 2.1.
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Posted 11 Jan 2007 at 3:57pm #
One: you so sneaky!
Two: I have asked Mark J if he can look at backporting the fix for 2.0.8 .
Posted 11 Jan 2007 at 4:50pm #
I've backported the patch for 2.0.8.
It's available on trac for you to test out if you wish.
Posted 12 Jan 2007 at 5:11am #
Erik, would you please enable full text for feeds again? It's under Options --> Reading in WP. NSLog seems to have reverted to summaries (really, excerpts). I'm not sure if you meant to do this, or if it was an issue with the .htaccess files.
It's so much more convenient (and quicker) to read articles in my feed reader, than to open them in Safari for a few extra words.
Thanks! 😀
Posted 12 Jan 2007 at 9:30am #
[quote comment="38021"]Erik, would you please enable full text for feeds again? It's under Options --> Reading in WP. NSLog seems to have reverted to summaries (really, excerpts). I'm not sure if you meant to do this, or if it was an issue with the .htaccess files.[/quote]
I know where it is. I disabled it (after realizing it was on), after all. It had nothing to do with the .htaccess files.
I'm still on the fence re: summaries versus full feeds for personal blogs. For TST, for example, we'll likely always have summaries. But here... I don't know which I prefer. So I'll likely flip back and forth when I think about it or the mood strikes me.
Posted 12 Jan 2007 at 9:42am #
The bug has indeed been back-ported. Here's the diff.