I was having trouble with my feeds on all of my WordPress blogs. Feedburner was only showing posts from thirty days ago on all of my blogs and would not pick up any recent feeds. I scoured the internet searching for a cure for the problem and after some help from Damien Riley (who still always seems to know something that I haven’t figured out yet in the world of blogging) I was able to fix the problem. This post goes one step further to show other WordPress bloggers exactly what to do if you have problems with Feedburner not picking up your most recent blog feeds.
This post assumes that you are using Google Feedburner and that you are using the /feed on your WordPress for RSS Feeds. Feedsmith appears to have been deprecated and if you are using the legacy /rss2 URI for feeds, update your feedburner account to use /feed and disable feedsmith first.
Then follow these easy steps:
Step 1 – Activate Feedburner PingShot
Log into Feedburner
Click on your feed name to go to your “Analyze Feed” tab
Click on the Publicize tab
Click on the “PingShot” on the left hand column
Click on “Activate”
Now your feeds will actively ping instead of passively whenever a new post is published.
Step 2 – Ping your Feed
Click on the “Troubleshootize” tab
Click on the “Pinging Feedburner” link
Type in your blog URL (not the feed URL)
Click “Ping Feedburner”
Step 3 – Sync Your Feed
Back on your “Troubleshootize” Tab
Scroll down toward the bottom and click on “Resync Now”
Step 4 – Write and Publish a New Post
Following all of the above steps I was able to fix the Feedburner Feed on all 7 of my blogs where the feed was broken, Step 1 is the most important, but Step 2 and Step 3 can sometimes fix your feed without having to publish a new post. In one blog case I had to publish a new post to trigger the refresh.
Last Ditch Effort:
If the above doesn’t work then you would be where I was with my personal blog, and I figured it out last night. My WP-SuperCache had my feeds cache stuck from a month ago, this had to do with hardening my WordPress install and my wp-content/cache and wp-content/wp-cache-config.php files were not able to be written to. I fixed these file permissions and flushed my wp-supercache which fixed and solved the final issue with my personal blog feed.
Hope this helps my follow bloggers who have problems with Google Feedburner not updating their WordPress Feed.
-Dragon Blogger
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November 9th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
You posted this at the perfect time, I had noticed that one of our feeds for one of our business blogs was not updating. Woot thanks for the tip!
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November 10th, 2009 at 6:56 am
Thanks, I just manually went through my spam comments and found all your comments bunched in there. I wish there was a way to make your comments always auto approve, I have my blog set to approve those who already have been approved. Oh wait, you changed your email address, that is probably why it treated you as a new user.
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November 13th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
This Feedburner stuff has been a headache for many folks. I wrote a couple posts about it:
http://www.damienriley.com/feedburner-not-updating/
I think Google bought Feedburner and then waited to see what would happen. This can get them a lot of data to mold the new enterprise but it happens at our expense, which bites.
Thanks for posting this stuff. I go to DragonBlogger.com when I need the latest info on Twitter and blogging stuff.
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November 13th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
Thanks bro, I have a new feedburner post going in tomorrow to help people who use it, check it out.
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November 19th, 2009 at 7:35 am
Thanks for the help. This wasn’t my problem but it got me looking in the right direction. For me it was because my feed burner account was lookin in the sub wordpress folder of my hosting account rather than the direct url
I set the feed up before I bought my new url so the address was wrong… Welp, I’m a idiot!
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November 19th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Very glad to help.
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January 10th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
Hi dragon blogger
Many thanx to u..I finally solved my problem following ur “Last Ditch Effort”. In fact i tried all other methods before but no result luckily landed here through google and relieved.Thanx again
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January 10th, 2010 at 9:14 pm
Glad my own struggles helped someone else.
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January 16th, 2010 at 4:18 am
I’m very thankful that I’ve found your site thru the search engine. You have very informative articles. In fact, my feedburner feed that has not been updating since September of last year is now in good health. I have searched and posted questions in wordpress forum and feedburner help group but I have not found satisfactory answer to my concerns. The main culprit was the WP Super Cache plugin. Thanks for the tips! More power!
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February 9th, 2010 at 3:25 pm
Thanks for the fantastic article. My feeds stopped working after I upgraded to WP 2.9.1.
The validator says my feed is valid so I think Super Cache may be the culprit.
I tried the first instructions but it didn’t solve the problem. I want to try your personal blog option but don’t know what to set the file permissions to.
Can you give more details?
Thanks.
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February 9th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
I wound up setting my wp-supercache files and folders to being 775 permissions so they could be written to, but in the end I wound up deleting wp-supercache altogether as on my hosting provider it actually made my sites run slower.
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April 2nd, 2010 at 2:59 pm
Yay, thanks for posting this. Saved my RSS today when the RSS wasn’t sync’d with what was on my site.
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April 2nd, 2010 at 3:05 pm
Glad to help
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