Blog Info Showing Wrong in RSS Feed

  • Resolved NerdSpeak

    (@nerdspeak)


    9 years, 1 month ago

    Hey guys,

    I use MailChimp to send out an email blast based on RSS for every new post that goes up on client’s site. The issue is with the <description> tag in my feed. It gives the post excerpt like I want, but also tacks on this little blurb about the site. Like the site’s slogan kinda. This wouldn’t be a problem, but there is a typo in that slogan.

    What I need to know is where I can go to update that blurb or remove it from the feed all together. It doesn’t show up on the wordpress dashboard anywhere and the only place I have ever seen it is on the feed here: https://sumptuousliving.net/feed/

    You can see next to the <description> tag that the word latest is misspelled lastest. This should be the bloginfo_rss indicator, but I can’t find where to fix that info.

    Any help is appreciated.

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  • My only suggestion is to check your Instagram Feed or Customizr Pro plugins.

    Thread Starter NerdSpeak

    (@nerdspeak)

    I have check Customizr. The only kind of description it has is much shorter. bloginfo_rss seems to be pulling from something specifically for an RSS feed. I just don’t know where it’s getting that blurb from.

    It has to be one of your plugins or your theme.
    Deactivate all your plugins (…yes, all) and see if the text disappears.
    if it does, then reactivate plugins one at a time until it appears – the guilty plugin.

    If it doesn’t, then reactivate the plugins and switch your theme for the default Twenty-Sixteen (or 2015) theme and see if the text disappears.

    Thread Starter NerdSpeak

    (@nerdspeak)

    Okay, tried all of that this morning. Disabled plugins, and the feed still shows an additional blurb with the excerpt of the post. Same when I switched to WP 2015. So I don’t think it is tied to plugins or themes, it is somewhere in files for the site.

    In comparing the source code of your rss feed to my development site rss feed, at the top of the fee xml, the codes are exactly the same except that yours has this extra line…
    xmlns:media="https://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
    …are you connected to Yahoo in some way or another?

    Thread Starter NerdSpeak

    (@nerdspeak)

    Not that I know off, but I did notice that. I know Yahoo has an image optimization service, but we use WP Smush which uses WPMU DEV so it’s not that. I honestly have no idea.

    Who is your host?

    Thread Starter NerdSpeak

    (@nerdspeak)

    Inmotion

    Do you have the SEO by Yoast plugin?
    If so, read this post: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/111246/wordpress-appends-rss-item-with-unwanted-content

    Thread Starter NerdSpeak

    (@nerdspeak)

    Man, you are my hero! That was where it was hiding. Such a silly thing. I also noticed that it doesn’t go away when deactivating the plugin, so you either need to go to the RSS tab of SEO or delete all of the files associated with Yoast SEO to make it stop.

    Thank you so much!

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