RSS Feeds are no longer working?

Have you spoken to your hosts at all?

esmi,
I just spoke to them, again, and they said that they haven’t had any other reported issues, similar to mine.

Can they confirm if any work has been carried out on the server in the past few weeks? In the meantime, can you doublecheck to see what versions of PHP & MySQL your are currently running?

Can they confirm if any work has been carried out on the server in the past few weeks?

They said there hasn’t been.

In the meantime, can you doublecheck to see what versions of PHP & MySQL your are currently running?

I am using MySQL5.0

I was using PHP4, although I thought I was on 5. About 15 minutes ago, I was able to switch over to PHP5. According to 1and1, it should be upgraded to PHP5 by now.

Aha! I wonder if this has been the cause of your RSS problems? At the time you upgraded to 3.2.1, you must have been using PHP 5.2.4 or above. The upgrade would have issues a warning & stalled otherwise. Makes me wonder if you somehow got “moved back” to PHP 4 during some routine server maintenance post-upgrade.

Makes me wonder if you somehow got “moved back” to PHP 4 during some routine server maintenance post-upgrade.

That very well could be, esmi, however, the problem still persists. Shew!

Can you try:
– switching to the Twenty Eleven theme by renaming your current theme’s folder in wp-content/themes using FTP or whatever file management application your host provides.

– resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin.

– re-uploading all files & folders – except the wp-content folder – from a fresh download of WordPress.

– re-running the upgrade manually using wp-admin/upgrade.php.

Just want to make sure that the upgrade was successful given the PHP issue.

Thanks esmi!

I can, and will, definitely do the first two steps:

– switching to the Twenty Eleven theme by renaming your current theme’s folder in wp-content/themes using FTP or whatever file management application your host provides.

– resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin.

But, I’m not sure that I want to get into all this:

– re-uploading all files & folders – except the wp-content folder – from a fresh download of WordPress.

– re-running the upgrade manually using wp-admin/upgrade.php.

Just want to make sure that the upgrade was successful given the PHP issue.

Is there any other way to check it?

Thank you,
Mark

You could check the wp_options table in the database for the database version number. It’s stored under the option name db_version. That will, at least, indicate whether the database was upgraded. Re-uploading all files & folders – except the wp-content folder won’t damage anything on your site (as long as you stay away from that wp-content folder). It just ensures that you don’t have the odd corrupt file post-upgrade.

OK, I reset the plugins folder, and changed the Theme; but, still, no change. So, I will do the next step that you suggested, esmi:

Re-uploading all files & folders – except the wp-content folder won’t damage anything on your site (as long as you stay away from that wp-content folder). It just ensures that you don’t have the odd corrupt file post-upgrade.

Do I need to start with a fresh WordPress install? Then, the upgrade should come through automatically, in my Dashboard, right?

Would you advise to copy the WP-Content folder to my computer, before proceeding?

Thank you,
Mark

Do I need to start with a fresh WordPress install?

No. You use wp-admin/upgrade.php.

Would you advise to copy the WP-Content folder to my computer, before proceeding?

It’s always a good idea to have a backup copy of your wp-content folder.

No. You use wp-admin/upgrade.php.

OK, so, after backing up my wp-content folder and my database.

It sounds like you are telling to ‘simply upgrade’ my WordPress install, using wp-admin/upgrade.php, correct, esmi?

Although, above, you included this step:

– re-uploading all files & folders – except the wp-content folder – from a fresh download of WordPress.

??

correct, esmi?

Correct

Although, above, you included this step

Yes – to ensure that you have full copies of all of the necessary files. Auto-upgrades can go wrong sometimes.

OK, so, I backed up the database, and the wp-content folder is almost finished backing up. So, after that, just do the upgrade?

And, do you think I will need to re-upload the wp-content folder, after the upgrade, or is that for only backup sake?

Mark

That should only be needed as a backup.

That should only be needed as a backup.

Oh, OK. It is taking a while to backup.

esmi,
I see the wp-admin/upgrade.php file. So, when I am ready to upgrade, how do I initiate it? Do I just double click the upgrade.php file, right from where it currently resides, under wp-admin?