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  • February 3, 2017 at 9:49 am #1356839
    melamers
    Participant

    With my (child) X theme active the validator at http://validator.w3.org gives me the following response:

    Congratulations!

    [Valid RSS] This is a valid RSS feed.

    Recommendations

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

    line 11, column 8: title should not be blank [help]

    <title></title>
    ^
    I use the feed together with another service (Triberr), and it does not show any posts with the empty title.
    If I change my theme to Twenty Fifteen, the title mention is gone and Triberr shows all posts.

    I have changed wp-includes/feed-rss2.php so that <?php wp_title_rss(); ?> is replaced with an actual title as a temporary fix. As you might imagine changing WP core is not my preferred solution. Any ideas how to properly fix this?

    best regards,
    Marcel

    site: https://www.leadershipandchangemagazine.com/
    feed: http://www.leadershipandchangemagazine.com/feed/
    WP version: 4.7.2

    February 3, 2017 at 4:51 pm #1357326
    Rad
    Moderator

    Hi there,

    Thanks for posting in.

    X theme doesn’t have any RSS related integration/customization. I wonder what causing this on your end. Would you mind providing us with login credentials so we can take a closer look? To do this, you can make a post with the following info:

    – Link to your site
    – WordPress Admin username / password
    – FTP credentials

    Don’t forget to select Set as private reply. This ensures your information is only visible to our staff.

    Thanks!

    February 4, 2017 at 7:30 am #1357865
    melamers
    Participant
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    February 4, 2017 at 1:24 pm #1358015
    Rad
    Moderator

    Hi there,

    Could be cache, it’s now displaying posts in your site’s feed. Please check it again.

    Thanks!

    February 5, 2017 at 5:06 am #1358486
    melamers
    Participant

    As I mentioned in my first post:

    I have changed wp-includes/feed-rss2.php so that <?php wp_title_rss(); ?> is replaced with an actual title as a temporary fix. As you might imagine changing WP core is not my preferred solution.

    So yes, off course the site is showing feeds. It actually is without the fix. It is just that the title won’t show and that causes Triberr to not show any posts.

    So I would like a solution where X is enabled, I don’t hack WP core AND the title shows in the RSS feed after checking with the validator.

    Thanks

    February 5, 2017 at 2:35 pm #1358825
    Rad
    Moderator

    Hi there,

    It’s not due to X theme, else, everybody will get the same. I checked it on my end and it ahs no problem with the feed.

    And to fully check it, please backup your site, remove the fix you added, then disable all other plugins and I will check it again.

    Thanks!

    February 5, 2017 at 4:13 pm #1358880
    melamers
    Participant

    Well, X is surely involved, because if I don’t use X and with my current plugins enabled, I don’t have the problem.
    I’ll see what disabling plugins will reveal.

    February 5, 2017 at 11:47 pm #1359173
    Rad
    Moderator

    Hi there,

    Which is why I need to check it while plugins are inactive. Please leave them inactive and I’ll check, and make sure you have a backup.

    That issue could be caused by a combination of plugins and theme. Example, one plugin is faulty and we can’t just say it’s because of that plugin but the real issue is caused by another plugin conflicting in. I need to collect information first.

    Thanks.

    February 6, 2017 at 5:07 am #1359455
    melamers
    Participant

    I deactivated all plugins, reversed the php file and still have the same issue. Since this is a live membership site I can’t leave them deactivated. Backups are created all the time with BackupBuddy.
    What info do you want to collect?

    February 6, 2017 at 5:20 am #1359466
    Christian
    Moderator

    In that case, please copy your site over to a development server. Having a development server is a best practice so you could do testing. We need to do some testing.

    Thanks.

    February 6, 2017 at 8:48 am #1359694
    melamers
    Participant
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    February 6, 2017 at 8:55 am #1359706
    melamers
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    February 6, 2017 at 5:29 pm #1360324
    melamers
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    February 7, 2017 at 2:52 am #1360851
    Christian
    Moderator

    This looks like an issue with your web host or WordPress setup. I’ve switch the theme to the default 2015 theme and your feed still couldn’t be validated. Please check with your web host.

    Thanks.

    February 7, 2017 at 3:38 am #1360879
    melamers
    Participant

    Interesting, I was not able to test that because of the site protection:

    Server returned HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized

    After I remove it, I get the error

    Server returned HTTP Error 404: Not Found

    and if I enter the feed directly, I get

    “[an error occurred while processing this directive]”

    What did you change to the site exactly, because I was able to test the link yesterday.
    It’s very easy to say “go somewhere else”, instead I would like an approach to help solve the matter.

    I will again put a copy of the current site on this test site to further investigate

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