WordPress and RSS feeds

Consider this a public announcement. A number of friends have made the jump to WordPress in recent weeks. Unfortunately this has broken their RSS and Atom feeds. The feeds return a 404 file not found error code when you try to load the pages. So livejournal, bloglines, netnewswire, pulp fiction and any number of other RSS aggregators can no longer follow the sites.

Only one of the WordPress sites I read managed to avoid the problem. Not only did he avoid it but he even sets Last-Modified and ETag headers. Be still my beating heart!

At any rate, this is a known bug and downloading a newer version of wp-blog-header.php should fix the error. This has made me start thinking about creating a webtest script for testing my own sites after software upgrades.