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Hey Blubrry => Help Me Out => Topic started by: Andre Günther on October 12, 2017, 06:11:18 pm

Title: RSS Feed won't validate
Post by: Andre Günther on October 12, 2017, 06:11:18 pm
Hello there! I am really lost and I don't know what I am doing wrong.
I am trying to set up my own podcast, theforeignerpodcast and I already launched it using soundcloud but then I decided to not do that anymore and switched to my own website as source of the RSS Feed. I followed the YouTube tutorial of Technologyguru and Pat Flynn where they go step by step to set up Powerpress on my WordPress webiste. I did everything right I believe yet still my feed won't validate! The problem is following:

https://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theforeignerpodcast.com%2Ffeed%2Fpodcast%2F

I hope there is someone in this forum who can help me with this because I am really lost and because I already built up a little crowd (100 Plays on Soundcloud in 4 Days) I am scared to lose a big portion of them. Please help me I am lost.
Title: Re: RSS Feed won't validate
Post by: Shawn Thorpe on October 13, 2017, 11:03:33 am
The feed URL you gave to Feed Validator is:
http://www.theforeignerpodcast.com/feed/podcast/

When I attempt to load that feed in Google Chrome, it forwards to:
http://www.theforeignerpodcast.com/feed/

And for some reason, that URL won't load. There could be a conflict between either your WordPress theme or a plugin outside of PowerPress. This page has suggestions on diagnosing the problem:
https://create.blubrry.com/resources/powerpress/using-powerpress/diagnosing-feed-andor-player-issues-with-powerpress/
Title: Re: RSS Feed won't validate
Post by: Andre Günther on October 15, 2017, 03:03:08 pm
Thank you very much! Searching through the diagnosing part didn't help but I at least was able to solve one of the two problems in my settings. Thereis only one problem left.
it tells me: This feed does not validate.

    line 42, column 1: channel contains more than one image (2 occurrences) [help]

and in the source code it says for line 42 <image>
Do you have any idea how I can resolve that?
Thanks a lot already!
Title: Re: RSS Feed won't validate
Post by: Shawn Thorpe on October 16, 2017, 10:46:03 am
Give this a try for fixing the extra image tag:
1.) Log into your WordPress site and hover over the PowerPress link in the left-hand sidebar. Click the Settings link in the popup menu. Switch to Advanced mode if you're not already there.
2.) Click the Feeds tab. Check the box next to "Do not allow other plugins to modify podcast feeds" and click the Save Changes button.

Give that a try and report back here with the results.
Title: Re: RSS Feed won't validate
Post by: Andre Günther on October 16, 2017, 01:47:03 pm
OMG this worked thank you so much!
Title: Re: RSS Feed won't validate
Post by: Shawn Thorpe on October 16, 2017, 04:42:53 pm
Glad to see that took care of the problem!

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