Title: Feed not validating
Last modified: January 21, 2018

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# Feed not validating

 *  Resolved [mjcoyle17](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mjcoyle17/)
 * (@mjcoyle17)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-not-validating-11/)
 * I am needing help to determine how to fix a validation problem with my site. 
   The feed ([https://shilohfreelutheran.org/?feed=rss2&post_type=wpfc_sermon](https://shilohfreelutheran.org/?feed=rss2&post_type=wpfc_sermon))
   validates through castfeedvalidator.com, but not through itunes. The error message
   says “Can’t submit your feed. There is no description tag in your feed, or the
   description tag is empty.” However, I have entered a description line in the 
   SM settings, and have tried changing that and re-validating, to no avail.
    Help
   is appreciated! Thank you!
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Ffeed-not-validating-11%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Nikola](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nikolam/)
 * (@nikolam)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-not-validating-11/#post-9890770)
 * Hi [@mjcoyle17](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mjcoyle17/),
 * Could you please go to Sermon Manager Settings, “Podcast” tab, and uncheck option
   named “HTML in description”.
 * If the issue persists after doing those steps, or if option is already unchecked,
   then add the following code to the end of your (child) theme’s `functions.php`:
 *     ```
       add_filter( 'bloginfo_rss', function ( $description ) {
       	if ( isset( $_GET['post_type'] ) && $_GET['post_type'] === 'wpfc_sermon' ) {
       		return strip_tags( $description );
       	}
   
       	return $description;
       } );
       ```
   
 * We suspect that the problem is in paragraph (`<p>`) tags in your website description
   field. If you have added them via some other custom way, please remove them or
   adjust the priority of the code that we sent to be higher than your custom code(
   should work if you change our code’s last line to `}, 0 );`).
 * If it still doesn’t work, then please create a temporary admin account on your
   website so we can take a look. (if an email is required, please use [nikola@wpforchurch.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-not-validating-11/nikola@wpforchurch.com?output_format=md))
 * Thank you for your patience.
 *  Thread Starter [mjcoyle17](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mjcoyle17/)
 * (@mjcoyle17)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-not-validating-11/#post-9891161)
 * Thank you so much, Nikola!
 * It seems unchecking the “include HTML” box did the trick.
 * Thanks again,
    Monica
 *  [Nikola](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nikolam/)
 * (@nikolam)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-not-validating-11/#post-9892287)
 * Hi Monica,
 * You are very welcome.

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 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Nikola](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nikolam/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-not-validating-11/#post-9892287)
 * Status: resolved