Mint Forum

Something odd is happening with Bird Feeder and my WordPress feeds.

I reset Bird Feeder’s stats six hours ago, about a day after moving the Bird Feeder code as suggested. Currently, Bird Feeder is reporting 33 subscribers to the main feed today and a whopping 208 to the comments feed, and the Reader’s tab is reporting a whopping 89% unknown readers, which is more than likely a related issue.

I did notice similarly inflated numbers for the comments feed before moving the code as mentioned above, but didn’t bother to record anything.

The problem is that Mint is reporting 208 comments feed subscribers in the past six hours while my server access logs is only reporting 23 requests for the comments feed in the past twenty-four hours. And, Mint is reporting only 33 main feed subscribers in the past six hours while my server access log is reporting 173 requests for the main feed in the past six hours.

Please note that neither of my server access log counts take into account unique vs. returning visitors.

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

I am on Mint 2.0 with BirdFeeder 2.02 and using the WordPress birdfeeder plugin from http://freepressblog.org/wordpress-plug … ess-plugin and am seeing abnormal (read: way too many) subscribers show up in Mint. My blog has about 40 subscribers via my feedburner feed, and I’ve been promoting that one as the primary feed for awhile so I do not believe I have very many direct subs. Any suggestions?

FWIW I am also using Mint 2.0 and BF 2.02 on Wordpress with the plugin and seeing a high number of subscribers in the pepper compared to Feedburner stats.

After alot of hair pulling and a few beers i’ve finally got feeds working.

add

to the very bottom of the feed file in wp-includes

amazing what you figure out when your pissed off :)

I should add I had this problem with the “Bird Feeder WordPress Plugin”. I am now trying the ‘BirdFeederWP’ and will report results. I am probably being pedantic here but there is a little mishap in the peppermill where the former is reported as being version 2.0 (which can lead to think of a very stable and bugless plugin) when in fact it is stated on its website it is a version 0.8 — also, the manual instructions for the birdfeeder in its readme file are confusing for WP users since - at least with WP 2.2.2 — the link elements to be edited are in different files as indicated ( and even with the right files I personally couldn’t get that to work anyway…)