Dear Readers (and specially those who are reading this through RSS or email),
Some of you have notified that RSS feed for this blog is not working and that if you try to get to the food photography blog, the page disappears.
So, thought writing a quick note to all of you and addressing this. Here are some details of what’s going on and what are we doing.
First of all thank you for your patience.
What’s Happening
If you are trying to visit the blog from RSS feed, the page loads for few seconds and then the content disappears and all you can see is a smiley face like *:)* on a blank white page.
What’s Causing This (I think)
This seems to be caused by an unknown character in the RSS Feed (according to the feed validator). So, some feed character is doing some weird stuff and causing the content to disappear.
The Fix… (and a work around)
While I have tried several options like installing a plugin, resyncing the feed, removing the stats software, but this issue is not fixed yet. While I am contacting some folks to get some advice, this may take longer than I would like it to be. In the meantime, please bear with us.
There is however a work around to this problem for the short term.
If you are reading a post like this one in your RSS reader and you click the heading of this post, you will be redirected to the following link:
This link will result to a blank white page as we discussed above.
However, if you remove the stuff after the last “/” that is
#utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FoodPhotoStyling+%28Learn+Food+Photography+and+Food+Styling%29&utm_content=FeedBurner
you will get following link and that should work and let you visit the page.
http://www.learnfoodphotography.com/rss-feed-problem/
This is not my preferred option, but please bear with us while we get this fixed.
Can You Help?
Do you have any suggestion, know someone who could help or point me to an article? I did some research and Googling in last few days, however nothing seems to work yet. If you have any ideas, I’ll very much appreciate it.
Again, I really appreciate all your support and patience on this from all you reader. Thank you for making this blog a wonderful place.
I usually click on the link and then cut everything out after the .com/… It works great for viewing the latest post anyway. I wish I knew how to help you with the problem, but I’m clueless. Good luck!
Thank you. That’s another great workaround.
Neel, here’s what I do. It doesn’t solve the problem but it seems to work just fine for viewing the article. I’m using the latest Firefox browser on the latest MacOS 10.6 with a DSL connection. I don’t use RSS feeds. (1) I click on the link from Facebook or email or Twitter. (2) The page starts to load. (3) While the page is still loading, I click on the title of the article – I have about 6 seconds from the time it starts to load until the page goes blank. (4) The article now redisplays properly and I have all the time I want to read it, link from it or do whatever I want.
Note that the ‘blank’ page is not truly blank. I contains a title bar with 3 links on the left and an entry on the right that says “Viewing: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FoodPhotoStyling/~3/0CndxAAZO3Y/”
Also note that the browser bar says I’m viewing “http://networkedblogs.com/dLq75″ when the blank page is displayed which coincidentally is exactly the same address as the page that came up in step (4) I am viewing and entering this comment on. Hmmmm…
Here’s another even better workaround. Save a bookmark for “http://www.learnfoodphotography.com/” and use that instead of your supplied link. I tested this and it works fine. This is the method I’m using to give you this comment.
I was a programmer (Assembler, Fortran & Cobol) for 25 years before I retired from it in 1993. With the quick bit of testing I just did, I believe the problem is somewhere in the networkedblogs linkage. I would be looking for the problem to be buried somewhere in the code that is common to the “http://networkedblogs.com/dLq75″ page and the other pages that don’t load properly. Unfortunately my knowledge of HTML is rather limited and certainly not good enough to do that.