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I just installed and activated Bird Feeder without Seed functionality and everything appeared to be working fine until I made my first post since its activation. Everything is functioning normally, but my server error log is now beginning to fill up with these errors for the various feed files (not just wp-rss2.php):

PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /*****/*****/public_html/blog/wp-rss2.php on line 4

Per the instructions, I have added this to the very top of each feed file:

<?php define('BIRDFEED', 'Entries (Atom)'); include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/feeder/index.php'); $wpdb->select(DB_NAME); ?>

This is line 4 of each feed file:

$wpdb->select(DB_NAME);

I’m using WordPress v2.0.9, Mint v2.03, and Bird Feeder v2.02.

Thanks! Moving it after the entire PHP block that you mentioned above appears to work properly. I’ll let it run for a few hours and let you know how it goes.

If this does work, you may want to simply the explanation by asking users to add the Feeder code just above this line in the regular feed files (which is the next PHP block):

<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="'.get_settings('blog_charset').'"?'.'>'; ?>

and just above this line in wp-commentsrss2.php:

<!-- generator="wordpress/<?php echo $wp_version ?>" -->

I’d also like to point out that the problem did not occur with the permalinked feeds (/feed/), only with direct calls to the files (wp-rss2.php etc). Direct calls to the files are the default way of obtaining the feeds when permalinks have not been set.

After a day’s worth of testing, I can comfortably confirm that the feeds are now functioning properly with absolutely no logged errors. Thanks!