Title: Feed does not validate (from custom Theme)
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Feed does not validate (from custom Theme)

 *  Resolved [feedsy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/feedsy/)
 * (@feedsy)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-does-not-validate-from-custom-theme/)
 * We cannot get our feed to validate nor feed into your plugin.
 * We are having a custom theme developed and we need to be able to feed it via 
   RSS Aggregator to other WP sites. We also need to use 2 plugins (WP RSS Images
   and Intuitive Custom Post Order).
 * What should we be asking our developer to do (with the theme and plugins)?
 * ——- With plugins off:
 * line 1, column 0: Undefined root element: br [help]
 * line 2, column 0: XML parsing error: <unknown>:2:0: junk after document element[
   help]
    <b>Fatal error</b>: Call to undefined function wp_rss_img_get_options()
   in … In addition, interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could
   be improved by implementing the following recommendation. Feeds should not be
   served with the “text/html” media type [help]
 * ——— With plugins on:
 * line 24, column 11: pubDate must be an RFC-822 date-time: (10 occurrences) [help]
   
   <pubDate></pubDate> ^ In addition, interoperability with the widest range of 
   feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.
   line 1, column 38: Use of unknown namespace: [http://schemas.google.com/gdata/batch](http://schemas.google.com/gdata/batch)[
   help] <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?><rss version=”2.0″ ^ line 1, column
   38: Use of unknown namespace: [http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007](http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007)[
   help] <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?><rss version=”2.0″ ^ line 1, column
   38: Use of unknown namespace: [http://schemas.google.com/g/2005](http://schemas.google.com/g/2005)[
   help] <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?><rss version=”2.0″
 * I have diagnostics and validate error messages but do not know what do to.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rss-aggregator/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rss-aggregator/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Mark Zahra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markzahra/)
 * (@markzahra)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-does-not-validate-from-custom-theme/#post-5891088)
 * Hi,
 * Can you send us the feed URL in question so we can test it out ourselves please?
 * Also, what is it that you’re looking to create exactly? Can you explain it again
   in a bit more detail so that we can guide you better as to what settings you’d
   need?
 * Lastly, are you using any premium add-ons? If so, please get in touch with us
   through our [support system](http://www.wprssaggregator.com/contact/) so that
   we can help you out better. This forum is for the free version of our plugin 
   only.
 * Thanks!
 *  [BillVick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billvick/)
 * (@billvick)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-does-not-validate-from-custom-theme/#post-5891106)
 * i cannot get any of the feeds for wp-rss-aggregator to display.
 * I’m getting a message on the page at [http://www.billvick.com/blog/](http://www.billvick.com/blog/)
   that says:
 * Sorry, no content matched your criteria.
 * My feed has validated
    [http://www.scoop.it/t/the-art-and-science-of-headhunting/rss.xml](http://www.scoop.it/t/the-art-and-science-of-headhunting/rss.xml)
 * I’m showing this on the source page: [wp-rss-aggregator exclude=”1633″]
 * Please help me get this up. I want to add other extensions showing the featured
   picture, etc. but first I want to make sure things work.
 *  Plugin Author [Mark Zahra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markzahra/)
 * (@markzahra)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-does-not-validate-from-custom-theme/#post-5891117)
 * Is the source ID used in the shortcode the ID of the one you’d like to display?
   
   The Exclude option will not include that feed source in that list. If you want
   to show that feed source please use the Source parameter as shown below:
 * [wp-rss-aggregator source=’1633′]
 * Also, since you mentioned other extensions that show the featured image, you 
   can test our Feed to Post add-on using our [Feed to Post demo](http://demo.wprssaggregator.com/).
   It’s free and you’ve got the full functionality of Feed to Post, Keyword Filtering
   and Full Text RSS Feeds for three days.

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