Feedburner feed invaild

  • We have a self hosted WordPress blog that is a duplicate theme of
    another blog we have. The original blog has a feedburner feed that
    works without a problem (whenever we post an entry appears in the
    feed).

    I created a second feed for the second site and things seemed to also
    work without a problem. We were getting close to cutting the second
    site over and we needed to clear the test items out of the feed. This
    didn’t seem to work even after we deleted all blog entries and did a
    resync.

    So I decided to delete the feed and tried to burn a new one. The burn
    fails because the validator indicates that it can not find the feed
    (error 404).

    to burn the feed I keyed the feed source: ourblogsite.com/?feed=atom

    (this is the identical address to the one that was working before I deleted it)

    we recently upgraded to the latest version of wordpress (3.0.3) but
    the feed continued to work after that. The only problem was that we could not remove the test feed items.

    Also we are not using any plugins in wordpress for the feed we are
    producing.

    I tried to disable some of the other plugins that we installed that
    are different from the original site but none had any effect on the
    feed.

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  • Thread Starter sailpilot

    (@sailpilot)

    After spending several hours trying to make this work I finally figured this out.

    It appears that feedburner will not burn a feed for wordpress unless there are published items in the blog. Sort of a catch 22. Once I published one entry in the blog Feedburner was able to burn the feed.

    I don’t know if this is a new issue or was always like this but I thought I would post this here in case someone else runs into this problem.

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