1.5 RSS “Problem” Solved

I didn’t see this posted (clearly) anywhere when I looked, so I thought I’d post what I did.

If you’re getting the “feed not registered protocol” error when you click the links located in the footer of the default WordPress theme, this is the fix for you.

If you haven’t made changes to your footer.php file do the following.

Method 1

#1 Right click and save this file: https://www.miltownkid.com/footer.php

#2 Upload this file to: wordpress-install-location/wp-content/themes/default/

#3 Enjoy

If you have made changes to that, or are afraid I’m some kind of php wizard that might take over your site with malicious code (I wish I had the skill), do the following.

Method 2

#1 Download wordpress-install-location/wp-content/themes/default/footer.php

#2 Open that file in your favorite text editor

#3 Search for feed: (you should find 2 instances of it)

#4 Remove feed: (both of them)

#5 Save and Upload

#6 Drink a beer.

If you switched to WordPress Classic 1.5 follow the steps in Method 2, except you’ll need to navigate to wordpress-folder/wp-content/themes/classic/ and edit sidebar.php.

I hope this helps somebody. I think that the “feed:” thing is suppose to open up your RSS client, but it doesn’t for some reason. I haven’t run into any other RSS problem yet (I just upgraded this week).