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1. Steven Barich
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   Hello,
   Just updated to 2.8.5, and I'm working through the problems.

   Problem #1 is that my RSS feed is no longer working. Here is the error I get:

   XML Parsing Error: unclosed CDATA section
   Location: http://www.artopic.org/?feed=rss2
   Line Number 33, Column 25: <description><![CDATA[
   --------------------------------------^

   And FeedValidator say this:

   http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.artopic.org

   I've tried resetting my Permalinks, to no avail.

   If you type http://www.artopic.org/feed into a browser, there isn't even a feed there!

   What should I check/do/fix?

   Thanks,
   Steve

2. stvwlf
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   Hi

   I couldn't see exactly why your feed ends where it does. I then validated your homepage and you have 120 errors on the site. That's not helping the feed issue - many of them are mismatched HTML tags, which is not good.
   take a look
   http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.artopic.org/

   Perhaps cleaning some of the obvious site errors up will help clean up the feed.

3. Steven Barich
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   Hello,
   Yes, there seems to be many errors, however, they seem to be tags created by Excerpt Editor, and how can I control/fix that?:

   Line 92, Column 144: document type does not allow element "p" here; missing one of "object", "ins", "del", "map", "button" start-tag

   …a Maurizi <p class="postdate">Monday, 2 November 2009 <!-- by Shanna M

   ✉

   The mentioned element is not allowed to appear in the context in which you've placed it; the other mentioned elements are the only ones that are both allowed there and can contain the element mentioned. This might mean that you need a containing element, or possibly that you've forgotten to close a previous element.

   One possible cause for this message is that you have attempted to put a block-level element (such as "<p>" or "<table>") inside an inline element (such as "", "<span>", or "<font>").
   

4. iridiax
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   Excerpt Editor: Compatible up to: 2.7

   If this out of date plugin is malfunctioning, I'd recommend disabling it.

5. Steven Barich
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   Previously, I've tried disabling the Excerpt Editor plug-in, but my RSS feeds still don't work (I get the same error listed above).

   Besides simply deactivating the plug-in, should I do anything else, like resetting permalinks (again) or another option?

   Thanks. -Steve

6. iridiax
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   To see if it is a plugin causing it, try temporarily disabling all plugins and see if it works then. If it does, re-enable them one by one to find the culprit. If it's not a plugin, try temporarily switching to the default theme and see if that fixes it. Some themes have plugin-like functions that can mess things up.

   As for the permalinks, it looks like you are using the default permalinks, so I don't think that these would be a problem.

7. Steven Barich
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   Hello and update,
   So, for no particular reason, an author made a new post on http://www.artopic.org, and now the RSS feed is working: http://www.artopic.org/?feed=rss2

   I wish I could say why.

   Isn't that just like technology...

   Thanks. -Steve

8. stvwlf
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   Hi

   The feed was crashing before on the first post. Someone added a new post and it works. So look closely at the code in the post that used to be the first post to see if there is bad code in that post.

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