SideRSS is a Pain in the Neck

So I was using the plugin called SideRSS (and FirstRSS) for a long time to put up the headlines from my other blogs here and also at the bottom of the other ones. Basically cross-posting like mad. One snag I hit was that in December, SideRSS got stuck and I couldn’t get it to update for the life of me even though my RSS feed worked perfectly fine. It was almost like it was cached and frozen without refreshing.

As a “fix” I statred using my FeedBurner RSS feeds instead of my own and SideRSS started up again just fine only to get stuck again a couple weeks ago. Here’s the weird stuff. My feeds were fine, Technorati could see every post, FeedBurner was fine and seeing every post, but SideRSS just wouldn’t change at all. I tried looking for the cache, but I have no idea where it is. I enede up removing the feeds completely (which I didn’t want to do).

Then I finally found SimplePie and installed it in minutes. I found that it uses a different core than the WordPress one and seems to do an exceptional job with the RSS. It turns out that using the templates, I have far greater customization options than before so I highly recommend it to anyone.

Thankfully, everything is working again.

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