The Savvy Technologist

RSS feed now valid

How do you know you’re a geek? I’d say that if you get home from a long trip in Philadelphia, New York, and Winona, MN and you stay up until 1:30 a.m. trying to figure out why the RSS feed from your blog is invalid, you’re a geek. I noticed recently that NetNewsWire wasn’t automatically detecting my blog’s feed, and when Tim asked me about it at NECC I thought I’d dig in a little and figure out what was wrong.

Here’s the solution for the record (and I’d be curious if others have seen the same problem). If you’re using WordPress and have enabled gzip compression for your Web pages, then you’ve probably got invalid RSS feeds. If the new iTunes or some other RSS aggregator isn’t detecting your feed automatically or is complaining about your feed, go into your blog management screens, go to Options >> Reading and uncheck the box next to “WordPress should compress articles (gzip) if browsers ask for them.” That should do it.

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