Title: Feed does not validate
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Feed does not validate

 *  [phogulum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phogulum/)
 * (@phogulum)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-does-not-validate-3-2/)
 * Two months ago my feed was ok but now suddenly does not work any more. I haven’t
   posted in these two months, just upgraded some plugins and maybe the wordpress
   itself. I tried to disable the plugins, activating them one by one and also installed
   some feed fixing plugins but nothing.
 * Feed validator says:
    line 38, column 1: Undefined item element: a line 38, column
   276: XML parsing error: <unknown>:38:276: mismatched tag
 * Feedburner says:
    Error on line 38: The element type “img” must be terminated
   by the matching end-tag “`</img>`“
 * Feed itself is here:
    [http://www.phogulum.com/feed/](http://www.phogulum.com/feed/)
 * Thanks a lot!

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-does-not-validate-3-2/#post-3319902)
 * It looks like your CDATA is ending too soon, just after the first anchor tag 
   on line 37. As you have another anchor tag (not within the XML schema), you need
   to parse it as CDATA. I would just move the double brackets `]]` from line 37
   to just after this `</a>` on line 38.
 *  Thread Starter [phogulum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phogulum/)
 * (@phogulum)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-does-not-validate-3-2/#post-3319907)
 * Thanks! But how do I do that? The feed is generated automatically and I have 
   no idea how to change it. Do I have to change some wordpress files and if I do,
   then what happens to them if I upgrade the wordpress? Or are there any other 
   way to change the feed?
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-does-not-validate-3-2/#post-3319908)
 * Which theme are you using? Does the problem persist (once feed is regenerated)
   if you switch to a default theme like Twenty Eleven?
 *  Thread Starter [phogulum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phogulum/)
 * (@phogulum)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-does-not-validate-3-2/#post-3319910)
 * I tried Twenty Twelve, emptied the cache (I think that this regenerated the feed)
   but nothing…
 *  Thread Starter [phogulum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phogulum/)
 * (@phogulum)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-does-not-validate-3-2/#post-3319913)
 * I’m using YAPB ([http://johannes.jarolim.com/blog/wordpress/yet-another-photoblog/](http://johannes.jarolim.com/blog/wordpress/yet-another-photoblog/))
   plugin. If I disable it the whole blog and feed is empty. I have no idea how 
   the feed is generated, but may be this plugin responsible of the error? But then
   again last time I upgraded that plugin before I made the previous post and then
   the feed worked…
 *  [webxcrawler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webxcrawler/)
 * (@webxcrawler)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-does-not-validate-3-2/#post-3320163)
 * SO, now my turn to face this problem, how to solve it?
 * Thanxs
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-does-not-validate-3-2/#post-3320164)
 * **[@webxcrawler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webxcrawler/)** – the best
   way to get help with it is to start your own thread and include info about YOUR
   site –
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Where_To_Post](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Where_To_Post)

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