Yeah, it’s definitely valid: https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fryanstephensmarketing.com%2Ffeed%2F
Unfortunately that’s really as far as we can help here, as the issue appears to be on Feedburner’s end.
I recommend contacting Feedburner’s support group at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/feedburner
Thanks for the response, James.
As I continue to investigate, the more perplexing it gets…
If I subscribe to my own feed via Feedly, the name of the Feed is “Comments On:” vs. the name of the blog “Ryan Stephens Marketing.” (That’s new, since the theme update.)
I ran the Fix My Feed RSS Repair plug-in to no avail and also checked to make sure that W3 Total Cache was not caching my feeds.
Is there any improvement in Feedly if you disable whatever is redirecting your real feed http://ryanstephensmarketing.com/feed/ to http://feeds.feedburner.com/RyanStephensMarketing ?
It might be wise to just avoid Feedburner in general, as its history suggests it might be on the way out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeedBurner
Are there any particular features of Feedburner that you like? We might be able to help you with some alternatives.
Not 100% sure how to do that.
If I go to feedly and type in my URL (http://ryanstephensmarketing.com/), 2 feeds show up. They seem to have the exact same posts, but one has about 75 additional subscribers.
If I add /feed to my URL, an ADDITIONAL feed shows up that has only 74 subscribers and the mysterious “Comments on: Blog” title that I was getting when I was trying to subscribe via http://feeds.feedburner.com/RyanStephensMarketing earlier to test.
I am okay with moving away from Feedburner in the coming weeks, but would love to try and unpack what the heck is going on in the interim. Makes no sense.
WordPress doesn’t come with a redirect to Feedburner, so it would have to of been something you did, either via a plugin, or via modifying your .htaccess file directly.
http://ryanstephensmarketing.com/feed/ is your posts feed, that’s what people should be subscribing to, but as long as that redirect is in place, anything trying to load http://ryanstephensmarketing.com/feed/ will be loading the broken http://feeds.feedburner.com/RyanStephensMarketing instead.
Thanks for your help last week, James.
It turns out that when I implemented the new theme, the feed changed from http://ryanstephensmarketing.com/blog/feed to http://ryanstephensmarketing.com/feed/
Changing that URL in Feedburner solved most of the problems I was having (i.e. subscribing via Feedly brought in the most recent posts, correct title of the blog, etc.)
I believe, because the Feedburner re-direct remained in place I will retain all e-mail subscribers; however, it seems likely that I’ll lose people who subscribed directly to .com/feed vs. RSS chicklet/Feedburner, etc.
Now that we’re *less* broken, I can revisit just using the native feed and perhaps combining with my e-mail client. (All of this is new to me…I’ve certainly never touched a .htaccess file. Ha!)
