Problem with 2.9 and RSS Widget
I was happily working away on a new WordPress 2.9 install when I ran into a problem. The RSS widget threw an error that broke the whole site. The error message starts out:
RSS Error: The data could not be converted to UTF-8
The site I was working on is highly depenant on the RSS feed widget so I needed a fix ASAP. I downloaded the patch from Semiologic and it works fine. Usually I wouldn’t be talking about a third party patch, but I was in a jam and it worked like a charm.
If you’re using the RSS widget, my advice is to wait for 2.9.1. Hopefully this bug will be fixed in that version.
January 8th, 2010 at 10:29 pm
[...] 2.9.1 has been released. It fixes the RSS widget issue that I was concerned about. So for any of my customers that have been holding off updating until that issue was resolved [...]