If you're reading this through a feed reader, you might have seen a lot of recent posts marked as new. This would be because I just changed the WordPress generation code slightly to compensate for a Bloglines issue.

The issue is that the part of a blog post after a cut will be all blue, because Bloglines will replace the cut anchor (something like <a id="more-123"></a>) with some broken code of its own, including links that span the cut contents.

Ideally, Bloglines would solve this themselves. I reported the problem months ago. Since they haven't, though, I solved it for my own blog by simply making the cut anchor into a div tag rather than an a tag. The anchor still works, and Bloglines no longer messes with my feed.

I'm running WordPress 2.0. I've no idea if the problem or this solution apply to other versions. I did notice LiveJournal feeds get the same treatment, though…

The file to change is wp-includes/template-functions-post.php, around row 90. Unidiff (download):

--- wp-includes/template-functions-post-old.php	2006-07-16 09:44:50.000000000 +0200
+++ wp-includes/template-functions-post.php	2006-10-25 20:46:47.000000000 +0200
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
 	$output .= $teaser;
 	if ( count($content) > 1 ) {
 		if ( $more )
-			$output .= '<a id="more-'.$id.'"></a>'.$content[1];
+			$output .= '<div id="more-'.$id.'"></div>'.$content[1];
 		else
 			$output .= ' <a href="'. get_permalink() . "#more-$id\">$more_link_text</a>";
 	}