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autoblogs not pulling feed

I posted this issue on 12-04 and haven’t had a response – it seems to be related to my autoblog which also will not pull feed, even though no errors occur when I process feed (it says its processed) … what could be the problem and how do I fix this?

I’ve tried to stream a feed from one of my category feeds and I’ve got this error message:

RSS Error: XML error: Reserved XML Name at line 2, column 38

What does it mean? What do I do to fix it?

My site is: ww3.homescholhub.co.za

can see error here: http://ww3.homeschoolhub.co.za/category/recommendations/ – bottom right sidebar

I put the feed in as: http://ww3.homeschoolhub.co.za/category/recommendations/advertorials/feed/

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:02:28
  • Cratar
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    @aaron – I disabled all the plugins – and the problem remains :slight_frown: I went to feed validator and it says the feed is valid but with a few recommendation namely…

    This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.

    line 114, column 0: content:encoded should not contain iframe tag (22 occurrences) [help]

    <p> <iframe style="width: 120px; height: 240px" marginheight="0" src="h ...

    line 193, column 3: content:encoded should not contain relative URL references: (11 occurrences) [help]

    ]]></content:encoded>

    ^

    line 198, column 9: title should not be blank [help]

    What now?

  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    I can;t find your previous thread.

    I can’t access your site and feedvalidator is failing as well. When I try, the url goes weird and tried to repeat itself 3 times. Did you make any modifications to your server setup? (Although it appears to be down now so I guess you;re working on it.)

  • Cratar
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    @drmike – thanks for aiming to help. And for picking up the redirect problem – when I reactivated the plugins my redirect plugin caused the problem. fixed now. So, no, I didn’t make any mods to the server setup.

    I’m really concerned about the feed issue as a lot of my site depends on my being able to be direct feed plus my networked blogs is not picking the feed up :slight_frown: And I am so clueless about coding etc that I don’t know what to look for in the code to know where there may be line breaks or extra line spaces. Appreciate all the help I can get!

    Thx

  • Barry
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Something is definitely putting a blank line in there, and it’s in the source of your main website as well.

    Are you sure you’ve removed all plugins? Even those in mu-plugins? If it’s not that, then a carriage return is getting in somewhere, it’s just that it’ll be trickier to find.

  • Barry
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    carriage return – old typewriter speak for when someone hits the “enter” key and the main typewriter “carriage” returns to the start of the page :slight_smile:

    It started being used in computer terms as carriage return / newline – e.g. move back to the left of the page, and go one line down.

    But anyway, history lesson over :slight_smile: Finding the line will mean opening every included plugin / theme file and looking for a blank line at the top or a blank line at the bottom and removing it and resaving.

    So if the problem goes away when all the plugins are removed, then we can start adding them back in one at a time and thus find the one with the problem, without having to edit all of them.

  • Cratar
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    @barry – thanks for the history lesson :slight_smile: I actually like knowing those things, so that was a cool interlude to my feed frustrations! :slight_smile:

    ok – I did this already: I changed my mu-plugin file name to mu-plugin1 to disable all the plugins. Feed still not valid. with my plugin file – I just deactivated them all at wp-admin. Same thing – feed not valid. Very frustrating! :slight_smile:

    So, now… I can only imagine that it is a php file in my theme. which is bizarre, since I’ve not been in those. What now?

  • Barry
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Ok, next step is the start going through some files that are loaded at the start of a page load and check them.

    so – first one is wp-config.php, open that (preferably in an editor that has line numbers) and see if there is a blank line at the end or the beginning of the file (like attached).

    I would then go through the wp- files in the root of your install and check the same. It has to be in one of them :slight_smile:

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  • Cratar
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    @barry – thanks!!! I am going to try that now – just one thing, it only happened in the last week or so – so, it should only be a file that I’ve recently worked on right? Or would something else have caused this?