Title: feed has invalid format
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# feed has invalid format

 *  [tonyl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tonyl/)
 * (@tonyl)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-has-invalid-format/)
 * BlogRush told me that my “feed has an invalid format(parse error: no posts in
   feed)” but I entered my feed url in my browser and it showed up just fine.
 * Can anyone please explain this to me?
 * Thanks
    Tony

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 *  [scribblerguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribblerguy/)
 * (@scribblerguy)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-has-invalid-format/#post-776265)
 * Link to the feed in question?
 *  Thread Starter [tonyl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tonyl/)
 * (@tonyl)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-has-invalid-format/#post-776314)
 * The links on the feed page are working. I tried to add my feed to my Yahoo page
   but yahoo didn’t recognize the feed as valid either.
    I’m so confused.
 *  [scribblerguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribblerguy/)
 * (@scribblerguy)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-has-invalid-format/#post-776316)
 * Again, can you give us a link to the feed, so we can see _firsthand_ what the
   problem is, if any.
 *  Thread Starter [tonyl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tonyl/)
 * (@tonyl)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-has-invalid-format/#post-776336)
 * dah! sorry about that.
 * [http://thegraintrader.com/thegraintraderupdateblog/feed/](http://thegraintrader.com/thegraintraderupdateblog/feed/)
 * Thanks,
    Tony
 *  [scribblerguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribblerguy/)
 * (@scribblerguy)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-has-invalid-format/#post-776350)
 * I was able to get your feed, but it took a while (15-20 seconds). Though, your
   main site as well as the blog come up fairly quickly, so this seems like something
   isolated to when WP queries for the feed.
 * One possible cause is a corrupted database. Take a look at [this post](http://paulstamatiou.com/2006/05/31/how-to-quickie-repair-mysql-tables-in-phpmyadmin)
   on checking for database “overhead” and optimizing the database. Make sure you
   back up your database.
 * Also, I manually checked the code of your feed at W3’s validator: [http://validator.w3.org/feed/](http://validator.w3.org/feed/).
   That validated with no problems and there’s no extra lines at the top, so the
   feed, once it’s generated, is okay.

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