I have two interrelated problems, and I don't know anything about coding, so I apologize in advance for needing things to be spelled out extremely clearly.
1. Only podcast posts, not blog posts, appear in my RSS feed
My site,
http://www.freedomoffetish.com, is both a blog and a host for my podcast episodes. I should probably tell you that it's a sex advice podcast in case you're offended by that sort of thing. I use FeedBurner and Blubrry PowerPress to make my podcast feed, which you can see here:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/FreedomOfFetishNote that it only contains podcast episodes. Therein lies the problem. Why do my blog posts not show up in my RSS feed? If I were only podcasting, this would be fine--my feed goes right to iTunes and people can subscribe on there.
But I do a lot of blogging, too, and I want subscribers to be updated when I post new entries, not just new podcast episodes.
Should I create a separate feed just for blog posts? If so, how do I do that?
2. I changed my categories/permalink structure and now have 404 errors on my category pages
I say these problems are interrelated because I, in what was probably a stupid move, read somewhere that I could create 2 separate feeds--one for podcast episodes, one for blog posts--using the category as an indexer. So I went into my permalinks, changed to a custom structure with category and post name, and deleted all my categories except 2: podcast episodes and blog posts. The "podcast episodes" category existed previously, while the "blog posts" was new.
I'm more of a tag person, anyway. I figured I could use categories as more of an internal organization thing and tags/search as what the visitors will see.
I also made sure to go through all my posts and categorize them as either blog posts or podcast episodes.
Now, however, when I select categories, I get a 404 error. Everything categorized with "podcast episodes" is fine, but the "blog posts" category page is just a 404 error.
I'm sure I did one or more completely moronic things here, and I appreciate your time and patience in helping me out.
-Raven