Feedburner – this feed does not validate

  • Resolved erinwyso

    (@erinwyso)


    8 years, 11 months ago

    Hi, when first installed, this plugin worked great. However, it just stopped working in the past few days. Actually, I’m not sure if its the plugin or feedburner. When I checked on the troubleshooting tab of Feedburner, (original feed validity), it gave the reasons why the feed was not working, which are listed below:

    SITE: olivesfordinner.com

    This is what feedburner says:
    Sorry This feed does not validate.

    line 1, column 1: Blank line before XML declaration [help]

    <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?><rss version=”2.0″
    ^
    In addition, interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.

    line 45, column 0: content:encoded should not contain srcset attribute (35 occurrences) [help]

    <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class=”alignleft wp-image-2411 size-la …
    line 45, column 0: content:encoded should not contain sizes attribute (35 occurrences) [help]

    <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class=”alignleft wp-image-2411 size-la …
    line 59, column 0: content:encoded should not contain itemscope attribute (7 occurrences) [help]

    <div class=”simmer-embedded-recipe post-2425 recipe type-recipe status-draft …
    line 59, column 0: content:encoded should not contain itemtype attribute (7 occurrences) [help]

    <div class=”simmer-embedded-recipe post-2425 recipe type-recipe status-draft …
    line 61, column 0: content:encoded should not contain itemprop attribute (151 occurrences) [help]

    <h1 class=”simmer-recipe-title” itemprop=”name”>
    line 66, column 0: content:encoded should not contain meta tag (30 occurrences) [help]

    <meta itemprop=”datePublished” content=”2016-04-08″>
    line 146, column 3: content:encoded should not contain relative URL references: # (7 occurrences) [help]

    ]]></content:encoded>
    ^
    line 313, column 0: style attribute contains potentially dangerous content: max-height (4 occurrences) [help]

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  • Plugin Author Brandon Kraft

    (@kraftbj)

    Code Wrangler

    That’s saying something on your site made the XML that Feedburner uses invalid and not something related to eNews Extended. Specifically, line 1, column 1: Blank line before XML declaration [help] a blank line at the beginning, as odd as it sounds, is enough to break everything.

    Most likely, a plugin has a file with a closing ?> with a blank line after it that is breaking everything.

    You can see it via https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Folivesfordinner.com%2Ffeed and notice the blank spaces before the <xml starts.

    You’d probably want to try deactivating all plugins and seeing if the validation works. If it does, turn back on your plugins one-by-one until you find the one that breaks the formatting.

    Thread Starter erinwyso

    (@erinwyso)

    Brandon,

    Many thanks for your reply and insight. I only have about 8 plugins installed, so that shouldn’t be too hard.

    One question (and I’m really new to WordPress, so it may be a dumb one) but won’t deactivating all of my plugins break my site? I know I can just turn them back on, but is there a chance that doing so can break my whole site? i.e. will they still work the same as before?

    Like I said, I only have 8 of them, and all are pretty critical to my site.

    Thanks again for your help. I am really lost!

    Thread Starter erinwyso

    (@erinwyso)

    So I went ahead and deactivated all of my plugins. I then refreshed my rss feed and it didn’t change anything. So I just reactivated all of my plugins.

    Any other suggestions on how to validate my feedburner feed?

    Similar problem here. I am unable to use MailChimp RSS import, as the feed does not validate.
    I’ve already deactivated all plugins. No result.

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