Title: RSS feed error: EntityRef: expecting ‘;’ Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # RSS feed error: EntityRef: expecting ‘;’ * [davesh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davesh/) * (@davesh) * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-entityref-expecting/) * Hello, * I am receiving this error when trying to access the RSS feed on my WordPress blog: * [code]This page contains the following errors: error on line 23 at column 48: EntityRef: expecting ';' Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.[/ code] * I am browsing with Chrome. When I view the page in FF I’m just receiving a blank page. My site is [http://www.naturener-news.net/?feed=rss2](http://www.naturener-news.net/?feed=rss2) * Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * [shane-g](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shane-g/) * (@shane-g) * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-entityref-expecting/#post-1147206) * 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. * Thread Starter [davesh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davesh/) * (@davesh) * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-entityref-expecting/#post-1147211) * Hm. That doesn’t really make sense. * Thread Starter [davesh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davesh/) * (@davesh) * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-entityref-expecting/#post-1147297) * 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 * Thread Starter [davesh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davesh/) * (@davesh) * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-entityref-expecting/#post-1147299) * I think I should mention that I’m using the FeedWordPress plugin. * [enkognedo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/enkognedo/) * (@enkognedo) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-entityref-expecting/#post-1147481) * 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! * [kim09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kim09/) * (@kim09) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-entityref-expecting/#post-1147482) * 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/](http://wordpress.tv/) and use those links] how to do these. * Greetings * [enkognedo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/enkognedo/) * (@enkognedo) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-entityref-expecting/#post-1147483) * 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! * [enkognedo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/enkognedo/) * (@enkognedo) * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-entityref-expecting/#post-1147484) * 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! 🙂 Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘RSS feed error: EntityRef: expecting ‘;’’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 8 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [enkognedo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/enkognedo/) * Last activity: [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-entityref-expecting/#post-1147484) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics