RSS Feed errors

  • jamm

    (@mybrandreview)


    2 years, 10 months ago

    Hello, I’ve a wordpress site that RSS feed isn’t working.
    I want to be able to share my stories to social media using a plugin or IFTTT solution but there’s error on the RSS feed.

    I checked with W3 RSS validator and here’s what I got: https://prnt.sc/25vyaok

    When I view my feed on the browser it’s okay but doesn’t work with RSS techs…the feed URL is https://www.naijashowbiz.com/feed/ I appreciate your help

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Hi, @mybrandreview – Happy New Year!

    How is the video included with the post? Is this through a separate plugin or custom field? I ask because when viewing the post’s URL, there is no video embedded in the page.

    Is media:content and media:player added to the feed through custom code in your theme? If you can update this code directly, then this may help:

    The underlying validation error indicates:

    Missing media:player attribute: url

    Per RSS 2.0 specs (https://www.rssboard.org/media-rss#media-player) the URL should be an attribute, not an element value.

    What is in the feed:

    <media:player>https://www.youtube.com/embed/YcbKQxj2FFY</media:player>

    What the validator expects:

    <media:player url="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YcbKQxj2FFY" />

    HOWEVER, since the parent media:content element already includes a url attribute, you shouldn’t need the media:player element at all!

    Your already valid media:content element:

    <media:content url="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YcbKQxj2FFY" medium="video" width="1280" height="720">

    So if you were to omit the media:player child element from the RSS output, it should resolve this validation error.

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