Miss-Frustrated

I’m trying to figure this out as well. Does anyone have a current answer for this?

Hi Bet!

My WP version is the new one 3.9.
I’ve only rule out plugins, I haven’t ruled out themes. I’ve only been working on the site for 3 days… it’s always been slow, even before the update, which I did earlier today.

I’m guessing it’s my theme with a combination of the new update. I’ll just try and rule that out. I will always try Yslow as you suggested.

I contacted my host provider and they said my site loads just fine for them, that could also mean it’s my system, which makes no sense because other pages load just fine.

Thank you for your reply! Much appreciated ??

Yes, what I meant was, it’s not supposed to be closed THERE….. I closed it right after the xlmns code which is why it didn’t work. And yea, that was definitely one of the big errors.

So correction for those having the issue, it’s supposed to be closed, but after the piece of php coding ??

And yea, me too, it was irritating as hell!

And thanks again for your time and help fellas!! ??

Doing a comparison in this code and the one I posted originally, there are major differences. I have no clue how it got messed up :S.

So, I finally got this working after almost pulling my hair out.

@rev. Voodoo, That xmlns code is actually not supposed to be closed.

FOR ANYONE ELSE HAVING THIS ISSUE, I HOPE THIS HELPS.

Gladly I backed up my files in the past and since my feed used to work, I used the old code from my feed-rss2.php file and it seems the new file was all messed up with codes out of place. I reverted back to the old file and everything is working fine again. Here is the code from my feed-rss2.php file that works perfectly:

<?php
/**
 * RSS2 Feed Template for displaying RSS2 Posts feed.
 *
 * @package WordPress
 */

header('Content-Type: ' . feed_content_type('rss-http') . '; charset=' . get_option('blog_charset'), true);
$more = 1;

echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="'.get_option('blog_charset').'"?'.'>'; ?>

<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="https://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="https://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="https://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="https://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="https://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="https://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	<?php do_action('rss2_ns'); ?>
>

<channel>
	<title><?php bloginfo_rss('name'); wp_title_rss(); ?></title>
	<atom:link href="<?php self_link(); ?>" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link><?php bloginfo_rss('url') ?></link>
	<description><?php bloginfo_rss("description") ?></description>
	<lastBuildDate><?php echo mysql2date('D, d M Y H:i:s +0000', get_lastpostmodified('GMT'), false); ?></lastBuildDate>
	<language><?php echo get_option('rss_language'); ?></language>
	<sy:updatePeriod><?php echo apply_filters( 'rss_update_period', 'hourly' ); ?></sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency><?php echo apply_filters( 'rss_update_frequency', '1' ); ?></sy:updateFrequency>
	<?php do_action('rss2_head'); ?>
	<?php while( have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
	<item>
		<title><?php the_title_rss() ?></title>
		<link><?php the_permalink_rss() ?></link>
		<comments><?php comments_link_feed(); ?></comments>
		<pubDate><?php echo mysql2date('D, d M Y H:i:s +0000', get_post_time('Y-m-d H:i:s', true), false); ?></pubDate>
		<dc:creator><?php the_author() ?></dc:creator>
		<?php the_category_rss() ?>

		<guid isPermaLink="false"><?php the_guid(); ?></guid>
<?php if (get_option('rss_use_excerpt')) : ?>
		<description><![CDATA[<?php the_excerpt_rss() ?>]]></description>
<?php else : ?>
		<description><![CDATA[<?php the_excerpt_rss() ?>]]></description>
	<?php if ( strlen( $post->post_content ) > 0 ) : ?>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<?php the_content_feed('rss2') ?>]]></content:encoded>
	<?php else : ?>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<?php the_excerpt_rss() ?>]]></content:encoded>
	<?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
		<wfw:commentRss><?php echo esc_url( get_post_comments_feed_link(null, 'rss2') ); ?></wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments><?php echo get_comments_number(); ?></slash:comments>
<?php rss_enclosure(); ?>
	<?php do_action('rss2_item'); ?>
	</item>
	<?php endwhile; ?>
</channel>
</rss>

Thank God!

Rich ‘elfin’ Pedley thank you so much for your help, I closed it. Unfortunately that isn’t the issue, it has to do with line 8:

<description><?php bloginfo_rss(‘description’) ?></description>

This is just so strange and every post I’ve been to no one seems to have an answer for this.

Hopefully I figure this out soon, I really need my RSS Feed to work.

Thanks again for your help, it’s appreciated!

Any luck with this issue?

My feed is not validating and this is the error message I receive

line 8, column 1: XML parsing error: <unknown>:8:1: not well-formed (invalid token) [help]
<description></description>

I think the problem is in feed-rss2.php

Here is the code:

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Please help if you can. Thanks

How did you fix the problem? I’m having the same issue.

First off, thanks for the response James.

I’ll try switching themes. I’ve already tried deactivating all plug-ins.
I’m not sure if it has anything to do with the wordpress upgrade I did.

Also my validation error changed to

line 1, column 38: XML parsing error: <unknown>:1:38: not well-formed (invalid token)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>$out = ob_get_contents();

Not sure why, I guess I was fiddling with some files. Does that change anything?

SAME PROBLEM! I’ve installed the fix-rss-feed plugin, no help. I deactivated and deleted it. I’ve MANUALLY removed every bit of whitespace, still no luck. I’ve deactivated every single plug-in, checked, and STILL no luck. I have no clue what is going on and now I’m simple frustrated, WORDPRESS or whomever needs to fix this issue.

SAME issue. My feed does not even show up period in a browser anymore. So frustrated!