Hi,
Disable Google Chrome and have a check with your blog and provide exact error message which are receiving at RSS feeds..
Thanks,
Shane G.
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davesh
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Hm. That doesn’t really make sense.
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davesh
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I’m not sure what you meant by “disable Google Chrome”. I’m assuming that I could use htmlentities to escape the RSS feed. Would this be possible–and in what file would I find the data that needs to be escaped? (I tried escaping the entirety of feed-rss2.php to no avail). Again, any help is greatly appreciated!
Dave
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davesh
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I think I should mention that I’m using the FeedWordPress plugin.
I am getting this exact error after installing FeedWordPress. Anyone have any ideas? I will continue to research on my own, but it has been a thorn in my side for a couple months now and none of my “googling” has yielded any solution. Thanks!
Hi
It happened to me before. At first I use FeedSmith plug in, it worked but only with firefox, with other browsers didn’t work, so I change the FD feedburner plugin, now it all work in all browser 🙂 [link moderated – if you have videos and tutorials that are helpful please submit them to http://wordpress.tv/ and use those links] how to do these.
Greetings
I like feedburner and use it with several of my other sites. I just installed it for the one where I’m having the error and it does not resolve the issue. The problem is that I am bringing in feeds from LinkShare that have links within the posts that does not use entities for ampersands. So, the feed ends up with “&” instead of
& amp ;, which will break the XML validation, and thus the feed.
So far, the only solution I can see is to stop using FeedWordPress or to determine a method to change all of the links that import with a raw “&” in them.
Thanks!
Ok. I still haven’t figured out how to fix the issue from within FeedWordPress, but I found out what was causing the issue. The ‘guid’ column in your posts table, i.e. wp_posts, stores a guid that is supposed to create a uniqueness to your posts as well as work with determine duplicates – which is why I think you no longer need to use the other plugin for duplicate posts for this plugin. (It contains the ‘&’ entity, so the feed’s XML expectations are not met, they MUST be ‘& amp ;’) – remove the space between & amp ;.
So, I update the guids in the posts table like so:
UPDATE wp_posts
SET guid = REPLACE(guid,’& amp ;’,’&’) –remove the spaces between & amp ;!!
WHERE guid LIKE ‘%&%’
AND guid NOT LIKE ‘%&%’
After running the above query, I am again able to see my feed properly. Be careful for Google Chrome’s really bad cache if you’re refreshing within that browser – otherwise, you might think things are still broken.
If anyone else comes up with something more useful, especially a fix for the plugin, by all means, share it! 🙂
