Not handling ampersand properly?

  • Resolved David Y

    (@davidryuen)


    11 years, 5 months ago

    Google Webmaster Tools gives me this error:

    “We were unable to read your Sitemap. It may contain an entry we are unable to recognize. Please validate your Sitemap before resubmitting.”

    I have to replace every occurrence of the ampersand character – “&” – with “&” in order to make the error message go away.

    I find that ampersands in the video description field <video:description> are the source of the problem.

    Is this a plug-in problem or a GWT problem?

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/wp-video-seo/

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  • Plugin Author wpecommerce

    (@wpecommerce)

    Hi, description is retrieved directly from your YouTube video. So may be try replacing “&” with “and” in your YouTube video description and see how it goes.

    How to Edit the YouTube Video Description

    There is no need to manually customize the .xml file.

    • Simply Login to your YouTube account and go to “Video Manager
    • Now click “Edit” on the video that you want to edit
    • Scroll down to the “Description” field and make sure there is no “&” character in it
    • Save the settings

      • Once you have finished updating all of your videos you can generate the sitemap again from the WP Video SEO settings page.

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