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I updated to 1.5.1.1 and I’m STILL; having this problem. I can delete and create links, but I cannot edit an existing. Every time I click on the update link button I get:

https://logoswalk.com/journal/wp-admin/(EmptyReference!)

I’m assuming that somehow I’m missing a file in the wp-admin directory? If so, I’ve compared the contents of my wp-admin directory to that of WP’s unzipped installation files and can find no difference. In fact, for the 1.5.1.1 update I completely deleted the wp-admin directory and replaced it with whatever came by default in 1.5.1.1.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Yeah, my definition of “user friendly” is whatever you know. Once knowledge is attained it automatically becomes “user friendly.” ??

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As a midphase customer, you can edit any file via your cpanel web interface. (Although I prefer to use Adobe GoLive.) Log onto cpanel and then select “File Manager” under “Files”. The File Manager will appear showing a crude directory tree. The files you want will all be under the “public_html” directory so click on that. This will show the files and directories in your web site. In your case, you’ve installed WordPress to a directory called “weblog” which you should see at this point. (You should also see the file “.htaccess” at this point for future reference.)

Once in your “weblog” directory you can browse around and eventually find just about any file mentioned in this forum or in regards to WordPress. But the main files for whatever theme you’re using will be located under the “wp-content” directory, then the “themes” directory under that, then under a directory probably named after the theme you’re using. (Example: wp-content\themes\classic) Once there, you’ll see the main files such as “index.php”, “sidebar.php”, etc. that are used. (This is all good to learn any way in case you ever need to make a quick change to your web site and aren’t sitting in front of your main computer.)

Clicking on a file such as “sidebar.php” brings up a menu in the top right-hand corner of the browser. If you then click on “Edit File” it will open up “sidebar.php” in a window where you can make changes and then save the file. (The WP Codex has excellent examples of how the code works and all the possible alternatives.)

If you know anything about HTML, the sidebar.php file will start to make sense. You’ll see by example how to insert, copy, change things. It’s not a bad idea to load a few other themes even if you don’t actually use them, just to look at their code.

In the theme I downloaded from someone else, the index.php called for an image for the header. I made another the same size and saved it to the theme directory with the same name. And so with many other tweaks and amendments. The subscribe buttons and code were all supplied by a wonderful WP plugin called “Subscribe Me” that I highly recommend.

Sorry this is so long, hope this helps.

NOTE: IF macmanx is perusing the forum, please jump in. He helped me greatly with this issue and knows a LOT more than I..

Since I’m also a WP/Midphase user and have struggled with the RSS issue I’m taking a whack at returning the help I’ve received. That’s just a disclaimer that I’m no expert but extremely empathetic.

The first thing I learned is just because I can’t see it, the feed is actually working, believe it or not. For instance, if you enter https://lydiamong.com/weblog/wp-rss2.php in a newsreader such as Pluck or in a service such as MyYahoo or Bloglines you’ll see a successful reading of your feed. In fact, when you run the above through https://www.feedvalidator.org you’ll not only get a successful validation of your feed, but they will provide you a snippet of code and an icon you can place in your sidebar that will allow you to directly test your feed any time by just clicking the icon. (Example on my own blog at https://logoswalk.com/journal/index.php as at the bottom of the sidebar.)

So the emotionally comforting news is that the feed is working.

I’m thinking since your feed returns:

https://www.lydiamong.com/weblog/feed/

and my feed returns:

https://logoswalk.com/journal/?feed=rss2

that the issue may be you’re using permalinks and I’m not? I hope this helps a little and someone else will jump in if this is the wrong direction.

When I look at your feed it doesn’t appear to be pointing to the wp-rss2.php but just pointing to the overall directory into which your blog is installed. Right now it appears to look like this: https://lydiamong.com/weblog/. But when I change it to https://lydiamong.com/weblog/wp-rss2.php then https://www.feedvalidator.org tests and passes it as a valid feed. If this is the problem, then the solution may be to edit the RSS link in your sidebar.php file of the theme you’re using to the one I tried above. Hope this helps.

There are posts throughout this forum that a possible solution is deactivating your plugins and reactivating them one at a time, checking RSS feeds each time. Some plugins apparently have minor issues and need updates. In my case, besides applying the above fix, the deactivation/re-activation exercise cleared things up.

OK…I guess this is an indictment of being part of the “TV Generation” that thinks everything must happen now, now, NOW. ?? I’ll keep an eye on it over the next few days. But thanks much for the emotional reassurance.

FOR THE RECORD: (In case future users search this forum.)

Success for me! In another thread, macmanx provided the answer. By disabling my plug-ins it immediatly brought the RSS feeds online. I re-activated them 1 at a time and found a mis-behaving one which I re-downloaded, re-installed, and now everything’s BE-YOO-TEE-FULL. The plug-inwas generating an unwanted first line in my rss feeds. Thanks for ending nearly 2 weeks of angst and groping, macmanx.

Success for me! In another thread, macmanx provided the answer. By disabling my plug-ins it immediatly brought the RSS feeds online. I re-activated them 1 at a time and found a mis-behaving one which I re-downloaded, re-installed, and now everything’s BE-YOO-TEE-FULL. The plug-inwas generating an unwanted first line in my rss feeds. Thanks for ending nearly 2 weeks of angst and groping, macmanx.

YOU…DA…MAN!!! Disabling my plug-ins immediatly brought the RSS feeds online. I re-activated them 1 at a time and found a mis-behaving one which I re-downloaded, re-installed, and now everything’s BE-YOO-TEE-FULL. Thanks for ending nearly 2 weeks of angst and groping, macmanx.

This was installed by my host provider via Fantastico. I can make changes to any files necessary…would you happen to know what I should change?

Thanks!

When I use that format I get:

The following tags were not closed: meta. Error processing resource ‘https://www.logoswalk.com/journal/index.php?feed=rss2’.

I’m still not there yet…

I’m-a goin’ nuts with this. XML validators seem to indicate that they hate the very first line setting the document type, and perhaps something about the 2nd line, but I can’t figure out what to do. I need a white knight or perhaps a really large hammer…;-)

Line 1: <meta http-equiv=”content-type” content=”text/html;charset=iso-8859-1″>
Line 2: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>

Someone please set me straight. I don’t think my issue (as outlined above) is an “RSS Reader” issue because I can go to other WP blogs and I have no problem on their sites with the “RSS” links. They show up fine in Pluck. My feed, however, does not.

I downloaded and looked at several of the documents behind these feeds and found that mine was different from all others in terms of the first line. My first two lines are:

<meta http-equiv=”content-type” content=”text/html;charset=iso-8859-1″>
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>

…and everyone else’s xml file omits the first line and begins with what is my second line. However, I can’t figure out what is needed to make mine like the others.

Any clarity would not only be greatly appreciated but make my weekend MUCH more enjoyable if I could put this to rest. ??

[See my issue at https://logoswalk.com/journal/wp-rss2.php or https://logoswalk.com/journal/index.php%5D

Neither Pluck nor RssReader can read it. Both of them detect the same aforementioned error and run the feed through feedvalidator.org to show me that error message.