What the %@$! was that?

Posted in SpyderFCS.com and WordPress 5 years, 3 months ago.

I did something to my site which I am still looking into but as you can plainly see, everything is back and working. I originally thought it was related to FeedBurner which I was and still am considering implementing for my site. After some scouring of the Wordpress forum, I found a post about the exact error message I was receiving, “ERROR: RSS File not found.”

I went though and deactivated and reactivated all my Wordpress plugins but still was receiving the error message. However, I noticed that when I deactivated some of the plugins and checked my page it would load but only to the point where my index.php file referenced a plugin. Not knowing what else to do, I thought I’d deactivate them all again but this time check my page after I reactivated each plugin. With my Sherlock Holmes investigative skills, Watson, I seem to have found the problem. It appears that Lee Tucker’s RSS Blogroll Updater was the culprit but the odd thing is that I have been using this plugin for about a month now (this is the one that was causing those weird &lt and &gt tags in the blogroll). I’m still not 100% sure what went wrong but since this plugin references a blo.gs RSS feed, it could be related to a change on the blo.gs site.

I certainly will be expanding my search but I’m just glad everything is back to normal. Between this and my F/1.8 debacle of late, I was beginning to thing the interweb was starting to hate me.