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Category: Technology Author : Duncan Riley Posted: December 18, 2008
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WordPress 2.7 breaks category feeds (and apologies if you got the wrong content)


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The Inquisitr is now running WordPress 2.7, the “Coltrane” release that offers new security and a wacky new layout that takes a lot of getting use to (I hate it so far, but I’m going to give it some more time).

We’d normally not mention an upgrade except for one little fact: it broke our category feeds.

From what I can gather by one entry on the WordPress forums, the traditional feed by category format is no longer supported. In tech terms, that means if you had a feed url like yoursite.com/wp-feed.php?cat=7 it now doesn’t show content from category 7, it instead diverts to the master feed. The newer, friendlier to look at category feed of yoursite.com/category/specific-category-name/feed/ does work.

For us that means everyone subscribed to a category feed got half a days worth of full content. We obviously offer category specific feeds because we respect that not everyone wants to read everything, and we are deeply sorry for those upset by the error. We’ve reset the feeds using the supported URL into Feedburner and they should be sorted now, although they may take a short while to update.

If you’re upgrading to WordPress 2.7, the warning is simple: check everything is working! Feeds are the last thing I thought to look at.











Comments


7 Archived Responses to “ WordPress 2.7 breaks category feeds (and apologies if you got the wrong content) ”

  1. Rice
    Dec 18, 2008

    This feed URL works for me: http://www.inquisitr.com/category/tech/feed/

  2. Glenn Batuyong
    Dec 18, 2008

    Eh, category feeds work just fine on all my WordPress 2.7 sites. Rogue plugins on your site, perhaps?

  3. Wendy Merritt
    Dec 18, 2008

    WordPress 2.7 didn't like half my plugins…I had to revert back to 2.6.5 until the programmers update the plugins…bummer. I did like what I saw but it was not worth all the heartache of losing my plugins.

    Twitter: WendyMerritt

  4. Pat Hawks
    Dec 18, 2008

    I'm sorry again, Duncan, if I overreacted earlier. Stuff happens. I blew up. My bad.
    What does the sax player have to do with any of this, btw?

  5. michaeltwofish
    Dec 19, 2008

    Ah, that makes sense. I thought I must have gotten drunk and subscribed to the celebrity death watch feed.

  6. Rice
    Dec 19, 2008

    All major WP releases have been named after Jazz greats.

    2.6 = Tyner
    2.5 = Brecker
    2.4 = (skipped)
    2.3 = Dexter
    2.2 = Getz
    2.1 = Ella
    2.0 = Duke

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Current_events

  7. JTownend
    Feb 2, 2009

    Thanks for this tip. Very useful! Couldn't figure out what had happened for a moment…