FeedBurner’s FeedFlare Error
For fun I’m trying out FeedBurner’s FeedFlare feature on this site but until I did some trouble-shooting it wouldn’t work with WordPress. Turns out the charset="utf-8" attribute in the FeedFlare script was causing it to fail. Deleting it from the script tag makes it all work fine and dandy, as you can see from the “Email This” and “Digg This” links down at the bottom of each post.
Update: Or not. Seems they’ve disappeared again. Seems the javascript is either not being loaded or not being executed. Hmm….
Update, the second: The error is mine, not FeedBurner’s. The links were not showing up only in Safari - they worked fine in Firefox. After a night’s sleep I woke up this morning, remembered that I run PithHelmet in Safari, turned that off and voila! FeedFlare links! It seems PithHelmet blocks Javascripts linking to external sites, treating those as probable ad-loading scripts; I’ve been using PithHelmet for so long I’d practically forgotten it wasn’t part of Safari itself. Mea culpa.
don loeb responded on 01 Mar 2007 at 7:22 am #
hi…this is don from feedburner. seems like you didn’t add the javascript to the single post file, just the main index page. it’s working fine there. is taht the problem?
glad you like feedburner. let me know if you have any questions…
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chris responded on 01 Mar 2007 at 9:04 am #
Sorry, I should have been more specific. The problem only appears in Safari on the Mac - in Firefox the links are showing up nicely. I was just trying them out on the homepage before adding them to individual posts.