RSS Feed Not Valid/Not Working

ginazammit
(@ginazammit)

10 years, 9 months ago

It seems my blog simply doesn’t have an RSS-feed. I added the RSS plugin but none of the urls I tried to put in (ex: http://ginazammit.com/feed) are valid.

I have permalinks set to http://ginazammit.com/sample-post/ and I’m using Bluehost (if that has any relevance).

When I viewed the source of my page (someone advised this in another forum post) this is the text I saw:

<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”Gina Zammit » Feed” href=”http://ginazammit.com/feed/” />

I am a complete novice and would appreciate any help with this.

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Moderator James Huff
(@macmanx)

10 years, 9 months ago

You kind of have a feed: http://ginazammit.com/feed/

That’s where it should be, but that blank screen means something is causing PHP to crash.

Try deactivating all plugins. If that resolves the issue, reactivate each one individually until you find the cause.

If that does not resolve the issue, try switching to the Twenty Fifteen theme to rule-out a theme-specific issue (theme functions can interfere like plugins).

https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds

Thread Starter ginazammit
(@ginazammit)

10 years, 9 months ago

Thanks for your help, James. I disabled all of my plugins and then installed twentyfifteen and this is what comes up at the top of my feed, but the feed validator does say its valid.

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

Moderator James Huff
(@macmanx)

10 years, 9 months ago

Excellent, that’s what it’s supposed to do.

An RSS feed is a stream of data meant to interpreted by a feed reader, like Newsblur or RSSOwl. Not all browsers have the capability to interpret feeds, and one of the most popular browsers lacking this feature is Google Chrome.

In general, anyone looking for your RSS feed will already know what to do with it. 🙂

Thread Starter ginazammit
(@ginazammit)

10 years, 9 months ago

So good to hear that! I’m using Chrome on a Chromebook so that’s probably what’s going on. I hope my posts will be imported into Bloglovin now. Thanks again.

Moderator James Huff
(@macmanx)

10 years, 9 months ago

You’re welcome!

Moderator James Huff
(@macmanx)

10 years, 9 months ago

P.S. If you want to see what your feed looks like in Chrome (not just the raw XML data), try this extension from Google: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rss-subscription-extensio/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmkbbbdekmmmcbfjd

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