Title: wp-rss2.php broken after localization Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # wp-rss2.php broken after localization * [lucero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucero/) * (@lucero) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-broken-after-localization/) * hi there seams a localization problem to the wp-rss2.php after setting the german. mo file, the `` as ``-Element isnt formated correct. * specs: [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss](http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss) example: [http://bildblog.de/wp-rss2.php](http://bildblog.de/wp-rss2.php) * seams to be a 1.5 bug – worked fine in previous version. probably affects all localized installations. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 18 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-broken-after-localization/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-broken-after-localization/page/2/?output_format=md) * [eirikso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eirikso/) * (@eirikso) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-broken-after-localization/#post-148732) * I also have some serious trouble with my 1.5 installation and RSS-feeds. Tere are two major problems: * 1. The feeds read OK in a browser, but the only feed reader that will accept my RSS-feeds is Mozilla Thunderbird. I try to add my feeds to RSS Bandit, SharpReader and NewsGator. They all say that the feed does not exist. * 2. If I add a post with special norwegian characters in the subject of the post the feed gets broken. It shows this error in a browser: —– XML Parsing Error: undefined entity Location: [http://www.eirikso.com/0testblog/wp-rss2.php](http://www.eirikso.com/0testblog/wp-rss2.php) Line Number 18, Column 21: Tittel med ø ——————–^ —– * This will actually crash Mozilla Thunderbird. * In other words, RSS is completely useless in WordPress 1.5 * I am currently converting from MovableType, but if WordPress 1.5 can not give me RSS-feeds I have to go back to MovableType again… * Any suggestions? * Here are two of my blogs: [http://www.eirikso.com/](http://www.eirikso.com/) [http://www.eirikso.com/0testblog](http://www.eirikso.com/0testblog) * [eirikso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eirikso/) * (@eirikso) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-broken-after-localization/#post-148736) * Some additional info: * 1. The Atom-feed for my testblog actually works in RSS-Bandit, but is not possible to add in NewsGator * 2. The Atom-feed works even after the norwegian characters in the subject * Check this feed: RSS-Feed that is broken because of a norwegian character: [http://www.eirikso.com/0testblog/wp-rss2.php](http://www.eirikso.com/0testblog/wp-rss2.php) * Working atom feed for the same blog: [http://www.eirikso.com/0testblog/wp-atom.php](http://www.eirikso.com/0testblog/wp-atom.php) * Another example: The RSS-feed for the MovableType-version of one of my blogs: [http://www.solstue.com/mat/index.xml](http://www.solstue.com/mat/index.xml) … works in all readers I have tried. * The RSS-feed for the WordPress copy of the same blog: [http://solstue.eirikso.com/mat/wp-rss2.php](http://solstue.eirikso.com/mat/wp-rss2.php)… is completely broken… * Thread Starter [lucero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucero/) * (@lucero) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-broken-after-localization/#post-148867) * due the update of more and more wordpress blogs to 1.5, many rss2 feeds are broken– i thing this bug should marked as “urgent” 😉 * all 1. 5 blogs with localization are affected! * is there bugtracking system for wordpress? * [Ryan Boren](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryan/) * (@ryan) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-broken-after-localization/#post-148875) * [http://mosquito.wordpress.org/view.php?id=924](http://mosquito.wordpress.org/view.php?id=924) * [eirikso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eirikso/) * (@eirikso) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-broken-after-localization/#post-148913) * There are two problems here. One concerning localization. The other concerning the fact that the RSS-feed (regardless of localization) is not accepted in a large number of feed readers! * For the blogs I have mentioned before in this thread, I have not done any localization of WordPress! But, I have content in my blogs that contain norwegian characters. * So, basically all my installations of WordPress is practically without RSS-feeds. Any suggestions? I refuse to believe that everybody using WordPress have RSS- feeds that does not validate. Something has to be wrong with my installation ( in addition to the fact that WordPress 1.5 has a major problem with localization). * [http://www.eirikso.com](http://www.eirikso.com) [http://www.eirikso.com/0testblog](http://www.eirikso.com/0testblog) * [eirikso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eirikso/) * (@eirikso) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-broken-after-localization/#post-148919) * I have done some more tests. * I cleaned my testblog completely for all special characters and did some tests: * Results: Read the feed in Firebird: OK! * Add the feed in RSS Bandit: Web Failure Refresh feed ‘\Testblogg’ failed with error: Unexpected HTTP httpResponse: NotFound * Add the feed in NewsGator: Error: subscription could not be added. Please check the URL and try again. * Add the feed in Sharpreader: Error reading URL: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found. * Testing the feed in Feedvalidator.org: Server returned HTTP Error 404: Not Found * Adding the feed in Mozilla Tunderbird: Works fine! * ….then I add one post with one Norwegian character in the subject: * It stops working in Thunderbird and will not read in a browser. * So, the RSS-feed is actually quite useless in any cases. And, completely useless if you have a special character in the subject of a feed. * I have now added a norwegian character to one of the posts in this testblog, so right now it does not read at all… * This is the feed: [http://www.eirikso.com/0testblog/wp-rss2.php](http://www.eirikso.com/0testblog/wp-rss2.php) * I have not done any localization of WordPress, and these are the feeds of my other blogs: [http://www.eirikso.com/wp-rss2.php](http://www.eirikso.com/wp-rss2.php) [http://solstue.eirikso.com/mat/wp-rss2.php](http://solstue.eirikso.com/mat/wp-rss2.php) * …does not work very well… * Suggestions are welcome! * Thread Starter [lucero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucero/) * (@lucero) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-broken-after-localization/#post-148922) * the title should not contain html entities. * a “ø” works fine for me `ø` wont work * here ist a list of unicodes, they should work instead: [http://unicode.e-workers.de/unicode.php](http://unicode.e-workers.de/unicode.php) * a ]]> in wp-rss2.php should fix it, but i think its unfunctional cause a reader will show the plain html entity instead. * Thread Starter [lucero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucero/) * (@lucero) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-broken-after-localization/#post-148923) * addition * `echo utf8_encode(html_entity_decode($title));` * instead of `echo $title;` * in wp-includes/feed-functions.php line 12 * will fix this problem. * [eirikso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eirikso/) * (@eirikso) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-broken-after-localization/#post-148929) * Thank you very much! That fixed the problem with the completely broken feed. I know that this might not be the correct use of norwegian characters, but after a transfer from MovableType, and after posting to the blog through mail, these things happen to the norwegian characters… * Your fix did the trick! * However, the most serius problem with my feeds is the fact that Mozilla Thunderbird is the only reader that will accept them. * Try this one: [http://solstue.eirikso.com/mat/wp-rss2.php](http://solstue.eirikso.com/mat/wp-rss2.php) * It now reads fine in the browser (thanks to lucero), but it is still refused in NewsGator, SharpReader and RSS Bandit… etc. * Any suggestions? * Thread Starter [lucero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucero/) * (@lucero) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-broken-after-localization/#post-148963) * try this: * [http://solstue.eirikso.com/mat/index.php?feed=rss2](http://solstue.eirikso.com/mat/index.php?feed=rss2) * should work according to feedvilidator.org [http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http://solstue.eirikso.com/mat/index.php?feed=rss2](http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http://solstue.eirikso.com/mat/index.php?feed=rss2) * [eirikso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eirikso/) * (@eirikso) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-broken-after-localization/#post-148968) * Well, lucero has just made one person up there in cold and dark Norway very happy! * This works perfectly well, in NewsGator, in RSS-Bandit…! * Thank you very much. * (…so why is the default link in the default theme when you install WP a link to wp-rss2.php, if that cause trouble?) * [eirikso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eirikso/) * (@eirikso) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-broken-after-localization/#post-148979) * Well, I have to try again: * The links to my comment-rss feeds are just as bad when it comes to validation: [http://www.eirikso.com/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=45](http://www.eirikso.com/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=45) or [http://www.eirikso.com/wp-commentsrss2.php](http://www.eirikso.com/wp-commentsrss2.php) * Any suggestions here? * And a last one: Of course I want to change the links to the feeds according to luceros example. I can see that my template file gets the feed url from template tags: * bloginfo(‘rss2_url’) bloginfo(‘comments_rss2_url’) * I do not want to hard code the change in the theme. But, I can not find a place where I can change the tag itself so it will change all places where this tag is read. * Thread Starter [lucero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucero/) * (@lucero) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-broken-after-localization/#post-148982) * try : [http://www.eirikso.com/index.php?feed=rss2&withcomments=1](http://www.eirikso.com/index.php?feed=rss2&withcomments=1) and [http://www.eirikso.com/index.php?feed=rss2&withcomments=1&p=45](http://www.eirikso.com/index.php?feed=rss2&withcomments=1&p=45) 😉 * look: [http://mosquito.wordpress.org/view.php?id=915](http://mosquito.wordpress.org/view.php?id=915) * will hopefully change in 1.5.1 release * [eirikso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eirikso/) * (@eirikso) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-broken-after-localization/#post-149030) * Well, what should I say? This works like a charm. Thank you again! * As far as I can understand, right now I need to do some hard coding to fix the problem in my templates. * …looking forward to 1.5.1 and again: huge thanks to lucero for all the help. * [eirikso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eirikso/) * (@eirikso) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-broken-after-localization/#post-149033) * For anyone with the same problems, I have tried to sum it all up here with instructions on how I have changed my feed links to the ones lucero has suggested: [http://www.eirikso.com/?p=47](http://www.eirikso.com/?p=47) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 18 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-broken-after-localization/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-broken-after-localization/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘wp-rss2.php broken after localization’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/) * 18 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [wereldkeuken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wereldkeuken/) * Last activity: [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-broken-after-localization/page/2/#post-149126) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics