Title: RSS Feed Broken Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # RSS Feed Broken * [nationalwhole](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nationalwhole/) * (@nationalwhole) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-broken-23/) * We haven’t changed anything on our site but suddenly our RSS feed is no longer working. * [http://www.ifthemuumuufits.com/feed/](http://www.ifthemuumuufits.com/feed/) * This is the message I see on our feed: This page contains the following errors: * error on line 175 at column 56: Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! Bytes: 0x03 0x63 0x6F 0x6D * This is what shows on our site now in place of the feed: RSS Error: This XML document is invalid, likely due to invalid characters. XML error: Invalid character at line 174, column 31 * It is listed as an unknown feed now. * Any information on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated. Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * [mjassen (mjjojo)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mjjojo/) * (@mjjojo) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-broken-23/#post-5693668) * Hi! Just now I load the [http://www.ifthemuumuufits.com/feed/](http://www.ifthemuumuufits.com/feed/) in firefox and see three links to three posts/pages, don’t see the above-mentioned error message text. * Here’s a (text) paste of what I at this moment see: “… Pick Your Purple January 19, 2015 at 16:41 Many of us are still feeling winter’s lingering chill, […] Recipe Review: Creamy Vegetable Curry January 14, 2015 at 16:12 For the first time – ever – I cooked […] One Word | The Access Point January 12, 2015 at 18: 13 Last week, I shared bits and pieces of my One Word jour […] …” * Does this mean it’s now fixed- in other words is it still broken for you? * What RSS feed reader are you using to read the feeds? * Thread Starter [nationalwhole](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nationalwhole/) * (@nationalwhole) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-broken-23/#post-5693669) * I was seeing the error message when I tried to open the feed in Google Chrome. It appears to still be broken for me there. It you look in the sidebar of our pages [http://www.ifthemuumuufits.com/hello/](http://www.ifthemuumuufits.com/hello/) you can see that the feed title says “Unknown feed” and shows an error message. * I’m not really using an RSS feed reader I’m just using the sidebar widget from WordPress. * I found that when I removed this blog post [http://www.ifthemuumuufits.com/faux-pas-or-fashion-savvy/](http://www.ifthemuumuufits.com/faux-pas-or-fashion-savvy/) the feed starts working properly again. Do you know what is in this post that could be causing problems? * [mjassen (mjjojo)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mjjojo/) * (@mjjojo) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-broken-23/#post-5693788) * Hi! Thanks for the more information. * I checked just now and saw the sidebar rss widget seems to be working. ( including a link to the [http://www.ifthemuumuufits.com/faux-pas-or-fashion-savvy/](http://www.ifthemuumuufits.com/faux-pas-or-fashion-savvy/) page too ) * I had checked before and I had seen the “unknown feed” error message– but now it seems to be working. * Can we mark this thread as resolved? * BTW, was is something about that particular ‘faux-pas-…’ post/page? or?… In other words, what was the cause and what fixed it? * Thread Starter [nationalwhole](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nationalwhole/) * (@nationalwhole) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-broken-23/#post-5693789) * Yes, there were several invalid characters on that page that I could only see by copying and pasting that text into a text document (they didn’t show up in the WordPress editor). Do you know what causes this? * [mjassen (mjjojo)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mjjojo/) * (@mjjojo) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-broken-23/#post-5693811) * Hm, I don’t know… Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘RSS Feed Broken’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [rss-feed](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rss-feed/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 5 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [mjassen (mjjojo)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mjjojo/) * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-broken-23/#post-5693811) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics