Title: Multiple authors breaking RSS feeds
Last modified: May 13, 2026

---

# Multiple authors breaking RSS feeds

 *  Resolved [Dan Greene](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgreene423/)
 * (@dgreene423)
 * [1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-authors-breaking-rss-feeds/)
 * My RSS feeds are breaking due to Authorship’s use of   in the author field.
   How and where do I need to replace   with   to fix this?

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

 *  Thread Starter [Dan Greene](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgreene423/)
 * (@dgreene423)
 * [1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-authors-breaking-rss-feeds/#post-18907528)
 * I solved my issue by editing the plugin’s php files
 * includes/author.php
   line 494 line 507includes/post.phpline 800
 * to replace   with   
 * This is needed because RSS feeds are XML and   is not being processed as
   a valid character for the author field by Spotify. This seems to be a recent 
   change for Spotify, since the RSS feed for my podcast was working until late 
   April 2026.
 * I’m putting this here to help anyone else who runs into this issue and to help
   me when I forget what I did sometime in the future.
    -  This reply was modified 1 month ago by [Dan Greene](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgreene423/).
 *  Plugin Support [Ryan Mitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanmitchell/)
 * (@ryanmitchell)
 * [1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-authors-breaking-rss-feeds/#post-18908337)
 * Hi Dan,
 * Thank you for reporting this issue and for bringing it to our attention.
 * We have reviewed it and implemented a fix by replacing the ` ` entity usage
   with the actual Unicode non-breaking space character (`U+00A0`). This should 
   be safer across different contexts, including RSS/XML feeds, while preserving
   the intended spacing behavior in regular web output.
 * This change will be included in the next plugin update.
 * If you are able to test it on your side, we would really appreciate it if you
   could confirm whether this works correctly for your Spotify feed as well, just
   like replacing it with ` ` did.
 * Thanks again for your help and for taking the time to report it.
 *  Thread Starter [Dan Greene](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgreene423/)
 * (@dgreene423)
 * [1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-authors-breaking-rss-feeds/#post-18908391)
 * `U+00A0` written as ` ` works as well, confirmed. [@ryanmitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanmitchell/)
    -  This reply was modified 1 month ago by [Dan Greene](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgreene423/).

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

You must be [logged in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fmultiple-authors-breaking-rss-feeds%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
to reply to this topic.

 * ![](https://ps.w.org/molongui-authorship/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=2121645)
 * [Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress](https://wordpress.org/plugins/molongui-authorship/)
 * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/molongui-authorship/#faq)
 * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/molongui-authorship/)
 * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/molongui-authorship/active/)
 * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/molongui-authorship/unresolved/)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/molongui-authorship/reviews/)

## Tags

 * [author](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/author/)
 * [RSS](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rss/)
 * [spaces](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/spaces/)

 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Dan Greene](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgreene423/)
 * Last activity: [1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-authors-breaking-rss-feeds/#post-18908391)
 * Status: resolved