Okay. I need to tell you that I’m way over my head trying to troubleshoot what’s happening.
#1. The RSS feeds have been corrupted, apparently. Feedburner reports an “invalid token” in several spots, and the WordPress forums are full of similar woes, mostly without comprehensible solutions.
That would mean that processing the feeds breaks down, resulting in links that don’t work, etc.
Along with the corrupted feeds, I tried looking inside the WordPress “error log” and it contains lots of spam looking stuff with porn-related links which have, I guess, been rejected or trashed. I don’t know enough about WordPress to learn much else from the reported errors. Does it mean WordPress was hacked?
#2. Could it be that those having the issues with comments and links access via an RSS feed and news reader rather than accessing the site directly? The corrupted feeds would mess up the site as they see it.
That could explain why some people have issues while others don’t, even when reporting the same or very similar hardware/software combinations.
#3. So, anyone know how to fix or replace corrupted feeds? How would I go about trashing the existing feeds and replacing them with newly generated feeds?
As I say, I’m way over my head here, folks.
Anyone know where to find the geek cavalry?
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My WordPress install gets hacked periodically, but the signs are pretty obvious, usually in viewing the source of the various pages.
My first guess is that your problem is related to a plugin that works with, or is supposed to work with, FeedBurner. Did you recently install a plugin, upgrade it, or make changes?
Normally, your “naked” feed would be accessible here:
http://www.ilind.net/wp-rss2.php
And WordPress rewrites a “pretty” URL for the same output to be found at:
http://www.ilind.net/feed
What happens when trying to access either is a redirect to FeedBurner. This would be fine if FeedBurner were getting your full feed and presenting it correctly, but it definitely looks incomplete:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/ilind/Hygx
Or completely empty:
http://www.ilind.net/feed
As part of your troubleshooting plan, I’d remove any WordPress plugin that redirects to Feedburner. Then, see if the first two URLs above (the “naked” or “pretty” URLs for the actual, real, original feed coming out of WordPress) generate a complete feed of stories and links.
If so, the plugin is the issue. And if your blog again has an accessible or complete feed coming out of it, FeedBurner in turn should be able to refresh and get all the good stuff. You can still use FeedBurner as your feed provider without the redirect plugin, provided you provide a public link to the FeedBurner URL in your sidebar somewhere.
I, personally, prefer to control all my feeds and data, so only use the actual RSS coming out of WordPress.
If not, there could be something else going on. Be sure you have the latest version of WordPress (they put out fixes regularly), first of all. Then, look for other signs of hacking, like porn or drug references in your code (“invisible” on the blog, but obvious if you view source). If they got in, they hopefully just messed with your templates (which you can replace). Unfortunately, other hacks go after your underlying database.
Scratch all that. Your permalinks apparently now include the code “eval(base64_decode” — a tell-tale sign of a hack. Sending you some links.