dleigh

Ok – so the problem was a plugin that was adding the control characters. It was the Transposh translating plugin. Apparently it must have updated recently. It broke all the feeds and so that was the problem. If I de-activate it everything works again.

Hope this helps someone else out.

I’ve just discovered that my feed doesn’t validate: https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftdr-guebwiller.eu%2Ffeed%2F%3Fpost_type%3Dgce_feed#l28

It happens with the standard feed as well:
https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftdr-guebwiller.eu%2Ffeed

When I take the offending lines into Notepad++, I see special control characters at the columns where the validator is complaining. I see SOH and ETX control characters (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C0_and_C1_control_codes). Don’t know how they’re getting there. So that’s the next step. The fact that the basic feed doesn’t validate makes me think that this has NOTHING to do with GCal. Just posting the results here to hopefully help someone else.

Connecting different applications – yep! I LOVE doing that. It creates so many possibilities.

We have several SEPARATE Google Calendars for different event types and we send out a weekly mailing letting people know what events will be happening that week (and only that week).

So GCal lets me aggregate the different Google Calendars into one feed that shows 7-days-worth of activity whereby each of the GCal individual feeds becomes a single, already-formatted item in the combined feed. Then with MailChimp’s FEEDBLOCK, I can (or at least I could) send out a weekly templated email that I launch using a button on our website and calling the MailChimp api.

When it worked, it was a fantastic solution – just what I needed.

I think GCal is great!

So if I focus on why the aggregated feed doesn’t show up, say, in Firefox (and I don’t know if it did before), perhaps I can figure out why it doesn’t work in MailChimp anymore. I’m with the free plan of MailChimp now and unfortunately, they don’t do any kind of support anymore with the free account.

Thanks for your suggestions and if you think of anything else, please let me know. I’ll try and come back here and post what I find as well.

Not for me it’s not – or not exactly.

When I look at Firefox (which formats feeds nicely), I get no entries. When I look at Chrome, I get the raw xml WITH the entries.

The real key for me though is MailChimp where I use MailChimp’s feed-reading syntax to put feed data into an email. Here’s what I have that is returning “no entries”:

*|FEEDBLOCK:https://tdr-guebwiller.eu/feed/?post_type=gce_feed|*
*|FEEDITEMS:[$count=4]|*
*|FEEDITEM:TITLE|*
*|FEEDITEM:CONTENT_FULL|*
*|END:FEEDITEMS|*
*|END:FEEDBLOCK|*

This has been working fine up until now. And now, no data is coming through. I don’t know RSS feeds that well so I don’t know if something has changed or not. (I got my api key a LONG time ago, so it’s not a recent change at all).

It might not be GCal – don’t know. Any ideas?

I find it interesting that BOTH Firefox and MailChimp have a problem with it.

I already HAD an api link set up and it also stopped showing anything on the 26th. If I look at the individual pages of my GCal calendars like:
https://tdr-guebwiller.eu/gce_feed/creneaux-hebdomadaires-de-la-tdr/ there ARE events, BUT if I go to the feed URL: https://tdr-guebwiller.eu/feed/?post_type=gce_feed, I get nothing.

I’d love to find out what this problem is! It’s messing up quite a few things!

Any ideas if I’m barking up the wrong tree?
Thanks.

same thing here.

“redirect” for administration and when clicking on the link to see the forum in the front-end, Firefox sends a page that says this page is doing a redirect that will never succeed.

I had high hopes this would work well. Disappointed.

I was right where you were. This modified version of libxml2-fix worked for me: https://www.johncow.com/html-tags-getting-stripped-out-of-wordpress-via-xmlrpc/

For more information, the format of the RSS file that I got from WordPress had put all the content in a CDATA container which was in a “content:encoded” tag. I just read somewhere that “content:encoded” is NOT SUPPOSED to contain any STYLE or CLASS elements to be a valid RSS feed.

So be it, but I’m really using this as a one-time import vehicule and not trying to create a valid RSS feed. What I DON’T get is WHERE the CLASS and STYLE stuff is being stripped out. If anyone could help me find that it would be great.

I suppose…since I’m already putting my posts into this RSS format…that perhaps just choosing some OTHER format that WordPress supports (e.g. from MT into WordPress) might be a good solution. In that vein, can anyone suggest a format that “imports well” into WordPress?

Thanks for all your help!

I 2nd the motion! Same problem!