Title: WP RSS Validator
Author: Andrew Norcross
Published: <strong>August 7, 2012</strong>
Last modified: August 22, 2012

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/wp-rss-validator_fefefe.svg)

# WP RSS Validator

 By [Andrew Norcross](https://profiles.wordpress.org/norcross/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-rss-validator.1.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rss-validator/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rss-validator/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rss-validator/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rss-validator/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-rss-validator/)

## Description

Runs your RSS feed against the W3 RSS Validator and alerts you of any errors or 
warnings in a convenient dashboard widget. If either exist, a quick synopsis will
explain the issues and provide a link to the W3 site for further explanation and
possible fixes.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Example of the dashboard widget with warnings.

## Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

 1. Upload `wp-rss-validator` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
 3. Navigate to the dashboard and view results.
 4. Enjoy!

## FAQ

### Why is my feed invalid?

There are many reasons. Many times, it’s due to invalid characters or otherwise 
bad markup in the feed. Sometimes it’s embedded items.

### How do I fix it?

That depends on the problem 🙂 The link to the main W3 site will provide more details
and links to possible fixes.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“WP RSS Validator” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Andrew Norcross ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/norcross/)

[Translate “WP RSS Validator” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-rss-validator)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-rss-validator/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-rss-validator/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-rss-validator/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-rss-validator/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.1

 * Included metabox on single posts and pages to check single feed!

#### 1.0

 * First release!

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1**
 *  Last updated **14 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.4.2**
 * Tag
 * [rss](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/rss/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rss-validator/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ Andrew Norcross ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/norcross/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-rss-validator/)

## Donate

Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin?

 [ Donate to this plugin ](https://andrewnorcross.com/donate)