A month back, I ran into a continuous issue of FeedBurner refusing to update feeds for a couple of my blogs. No amount of pinging or feed resyncing would solve the problem, and endless Google searches proved futile. After finally stumbling across a fix, I think I have this issue solved.
So, if you’re having issues with FeedBurner not updating, I recommend these actions:
- Use the FeedBurner FeedSmith plugin (you have to download it from Google).
- Remove any 301 redirects you may have setup in your .htaccess file for the feed.
- If you have a caching plugin installed, make sure it’s not caching the feed or the feed path (/feed/).
- Once done, go into FeedBurner and ping and then resync it.
This has worked for me in every case — hope it works for you, too!
Oh yeah — just a little reminder — if you haven’t seen the previous updates from this blog, I’ve moved all of my project management related postings to a new blog at The Project Web (www.theprojectweb.com) — please check it out and make sure you update your RSS subscription.
Can you give me some examples of caching plug-ins? After searching (and searching…and searching….) for solutions to my FeedBurner problem, I’m willing to try your solution. But just want to make sure I’m not messing things up.
I ping the heck out of it – via ping-o-matic, feedburner, through wp when I actually post – and it still sometimes takes days to update. My original feed updates instantaneously.
If I can’t get this to work, I might have to ditch feedburner entirely. It’s been such a pain.
WP Super Cache is the one I use. Try adding define(‘WP_CACHE’, false); to your wp-config file to see if it does anything.
Really, it was the FeedSmith plugin that helped. I’m not sure why adding the 301s directly in the .htaccess file stopped working, though.