RSS Feed 404 Errors

Hi @joellekbw,
Sorry to hear that. Do you remember what was recently updated on your site – perhaps the theme or some plugins? It would also be very helpful if you could provide a list of the plugins currently enabled on your site and their version.

Hi @joellekbw,
Thanks for providing the list of installed plugins. Do you mean the 404 error occurs when any of those plugins is updated, or specifically when SSP is updated?

Do you use automatic plugin updates or manual updates? If you’re using auto-updates, I’d suggest disabling them for all plugins and checking after which specific plugin update the 404 issue occurs. This way, we can identify the conflicting plugin that overrides the rules.

We automatically flush permalinks each time SSP updates, so I believe this shouldn’t happen after an SSP update specifically.

Hi @joellekbw

This can happen if any plugin or theme calls flush_rewrite_rules() at the wrong time – if a flush occurs before SSP’s init hook fires (or during a request where SSP isn’t fully loaded), the rewrite rules are regenerated without SSP’s rules, and the existing ones get overwritten.

As an option, you can try the following snippet (add it to your functions.php). It will check and fix the rules on each page load. It doesn’t require many resources, so you probably won’t notice any difference in page load time.

add_action( 'init', function () {
    $rules = get_option( 'rewrite_rules', array() );
    if ( is_array( $rules ) && ! isset( $rules['^podcast-download/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/?'] ) ) {
        flush_rewrite_rules( false );
    }
}, 99 );