Upgrading WordPress to 2.51 broke my feed

I upgraded WordPress this past weekend to the latest and greatest version, WordPress 2.51. I thought everything went OK. I then noticed this morning that my RSS feed was broken. It wasn’t working. It was completely dead.

Why am I not surprised?

I tried to fix it. I combed the WordPress forums and read the posts written by other people with the same problem, along with the advice people were providing to fix the problem. Some of these people actually sounded as though they knew what they were talking about. Some of them.

I tried doing the things mentioned in the WordPress forums. Nothing worked.

1. I deactived all plugins.
2. I changed my theme to the default generic WordPress theme.
3. I looked for blank lines outside of the PHP enclosures in the various feed related files.

I finally downloaded WordPress 2.5 and installed it in place of WordPress 2.51. Once I reverted back to WordPress 2.5, my blog’s feed was magically repaired.

I started a blog not to dick around with PHP, but to blog about the dumb stuff I find interesting.  Sometimes it is hard to remember that.  Don’t ever upgrade WordPress. Once you have a working version, hang on to it for dear life.

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