@akurjata One strange thing is that you’ve got your feed in your head twice, once as
link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="confluence, by andrew kurjata RSS Feed" href="https://andrewkurjata.ca/feed/" and the second time as link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="confluence, by andrew kurjata » Feed" href="https://andrewkurjata.ca/feed/" / (the same feed URL with two different titles), but that shouldn’t cause any problems besides making an app's feed-detection code find it twice if it scrapes your website. I’d still try to figure out what is generating the extra feed link and disable it (it’s the first one that’s the non-standard, extra one, incidentally).
Since your “troubles” involved .htaccess, trying going to Settings, Permalinks, and (not making any changes) clicking the “Save Changes” button (if you’ve been able to identify and disable the source of that extra feed in the head already, all the better); that supposedly causes WP to refresh its .htaccess rules (when I was playing with adding a custom feed at one point, every tutorial said to do that, and, indeed, it was required to make that custom feed work). I’m not sure that this is really the source of those problems, either (bad rules could conceivably make a feed not be findable, but it should be universal, not “only sometimes” if it were), but the refresh shouldn’t hurt anything, either. Hope some other folks can be more helpful….
@smokey ah interesting. I'll give all that a shot. It's possible that the double feed is why some readers can pick it up and some can, maybe? Because some can figure out what's going on and others can't? Either way... I'll try all this. Appreciate it.
@smokey so I've deleted the first, non-standard feed from my header. I've also turned off the json feed generator manton made, though i doubt that's the problem, and tried the settings tip. Will see if that works after a while.
One strange thing i've noticed -- my theme copy where I'm trying to fix things also has the double feed thing you identified, yet feed readers (like feedly and digg reader) have no trouble finding my RSS when it when i type in andrewkurjata.ca/beta/feed but if i type in andrewkurjata.ca/feed both come up short
@akurjata @smokey so here’s a real mystery. I reactivated feedburner and somehow not only did that make the feedburner RSS feed work, it also made the original /feed file work, too— site is now findable in all rss readers I tested. Bizarre. For now I’ll go with “whatever works” but... hopefully I can get this all fixed in a future version of my site! Thanks again for your poking around
@akurjata I have no idea how feedburner works, but if it involves using redirects, that could have been a problem when you had it disabled (I didn't notice any problems, but…). That also might have explained the difference between the beta and regular sites. (Note that WP seems to always redirect /feedto /feed/ for whatever reason; that redirect was working fine for me when I poked last night….) At any rate, glad you have it working even though not yet sorted out.