I screw internet things up a lot. For example, less than a day after I get the gamercard script going, I’ve now done in my RSS feeds. Apparently it’s something about there being a line break above the first line of the feed. From what I’ve gathered, the problem comes from PHP 5.2.2 or higher, so there was a manual fix for this in WordPress 2.1. Problem is, I’m running WordPress 2.2 which is supposed to have this fix built in, so I’ve been going nuts all day trying to figure out what is wrong. One of my favorite blog taglines was If it ain’t broke, fix it ’til it is. Clearly, I don’t have the same level of patience as the person who came up with that. Bear with as I try deactivating all my plugins - for a second time - to see if that makes a difference.

If you’d like to see the problem, check out the main feed or the comments feed.

Edit: It’s fixed! It wasn’t the plugins, and it wasn’t something I had edited. I don’t know specifically what caused it, but a downgrade to PHP 4 has fixed it. Now my goal is to stop touching things and let WordPress work on it’s own. Maybe my tagline will be It currently isn’t broken, let’s see how long I can keep it that way. Hm. A little wordy.

Edit 2: Yeah, that’s not going to fly. Lifestream needs PHP 5 to run.

Edit 3: Apparently it is going to fly. Switched back to PHP 5.2.2 and everything is still working. Weird, but I’m not complaining.

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