Technical challenge on Winehiker Witiculture: Feedus interruptus
If you subscribe to Winehiker Witiculture via FeedBlitz, Bloglines, or other feed reader, then you may be wondering why you haven’t seen any feeds from me over the past few days. Perhaps you’ve received emails from the FeedBlitz system announcing changes to my posts. Unfortunately there is broken code on the server that hosts my blog.
My site developer, Kevin McNeese, is working on a fix. With luck, my feed to you will be restored tomorrow, and you’ll be able to resume reading my posts as you normally have.
It was my own silly fault. In an attempt to optimize the way search engines read and index my site — in short, to enhance my “SEO” and page rank — I caused an error I hadn’t foreseen, one I can’t repair myself.
Why did I make a change?
As I review how my posts are viewed through various web channels, I’ve come to the conclusion that I needed to update the way they are presented in your browser’s URL bar and in certain feeds. I’ve decided to reorganize how WordPress manages my posts so that they display by title, rather than by sequential number, in the URL bar.
It is my hope that this reflow will help you, my readers, to find what you’re looking for a little more easily by using actual human words rather than numbers. It will also help me when I review my metrics reporting, which I’ll now be able to do at a glance instead of having to click through to really know which of my posts people are reading most.
That scenario was testing well on this end; changed link names were redirecting as they were supposed to. That is, until I tested the feed.
Gol-dang technicalities….
When the feed is restored, I’ll add a follow-up post.
