RSS feed for category not working

[innovatek]

Hi,
I create a monthly newsletter using a category RSS feed in MailChimp. to control exactly which posts are pulled into the newsletter, I change the category each time. This has worked for the last 17 newsletters.
Unfortunately, MailChimp is saying that the updated RSS feed for the next one is not valid.
Can you find out why this is not working?

• The problem feed is: http://foresttech.events/category/issue18/feed/
• The last one that worked was: http://foresttech.events/category/issue17/feed/
• I tried changing the http to https, however, that does not help.
• I used the Feed Validator, but don’t undertand what the issue is: https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fforesttech.events%2Fcategory%2Fissue18%2Ffeed%2F
• Please note that I also use a WordPress plugin “MB ImageChimp RSS Feed Enhancer” to pull in the images.
• Here is the RSS feed to another newsletter I do which also works - http://woodtech.events/category/Issue8/feed/
  Is this an easy fix? What is the difference between the feeds?

[thai]

Hello Bill,

Thanks for writing in! Please be advised that X theme does not modify the RSS feed. We simply rely on the default WordPress RSS feed. There may be a 3rd party plugin that created the issue. You could try testing for a plugin conflict. You can do this by deactivating all third party plugins, and seeing if the problem remains. If it’s fixed, you’ll know a plugin caused the problem, and you can narrow down which one by reactivating them one at a time.

Meanwhile, you might be interested on these threads related to your RSS feed issue:

• http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-wordpress-rss-feed-errors/

• https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/is-the-rss-feed-of-your-wordpress-blog-working-in-all-major-browsers-1772

• https://wpengine.com/support/fix-rss-errors-wordpress/

Hope this helps.

[innovatek]

Thanks. It turned out to be a strange special character in one of the blog posts. As soon as I removed it the whole rss feed worked. Such a simple fix.
Out of interest, I also tried the ‘Fix My Feed RSS Repair’ plugin, however, that didn’t fix the problem.

[mldarshana]

Glad you were able to figure it out