Title: Error message for RSS feed!
Last modified: August 19, 2016

---

# Error message for RSS feed!

 *  [loftgolf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/loftgolf/)
 * (@loftgolf)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-for-rss-feed/)
 * Help!! I am getting an error message when I click the Entries RSS link on my 
   blog. This is what I’m getting:
    Internet Explorer cannot display this feed
 *  This feed contains code errors.
    Go back to the previous page.
 *  More information
 * Cannot have a DOCTYPE declaration outside of a prolog.
    Line: 191 Character: 
   11
 * <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN”
 * Would someone PLEASE help me with this? Thank you!

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)

 *  [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/)
 * (@stvwlf)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-for-rss-feed/#post-1066195)
 * the generic answer is make sure the feed URL associated with that link is the
   RSS2 link.
 * If that doesn’t resolve the problem you are going to have to supply a URL.
 *  Thread Starter [loftgolf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/loftgolf/)
 * (@loftgolf)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-for-rss-feed/#post-1066210)
 * oh, I’m very sorry stvwlf, I forgot to post the url. [](http://loftgolf.net/blog)
 * I am brand new to the world of blogging so please spoon feed me information! 
   Thank you very much!
 *  Thread Starter [loftgolf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/loftgolf/)
 * (@loftgolf)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-for-rss-feed/#post-1066211)
 * Dammit! I did it again! The blue text will bring you to our blog. Sorry about
   that!
 *  [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/)
 * (@stvwlf)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-for-rss-feed/#post-1066219)
 * Hi
 * Sorry, your theme is not really a WordPress theme. Someone has chopped pieces
   from WordPress and inserted them into a Dreawmeaver HTML website.
 * Your RSS feed’s code is very invalid – there are parts in the middle of it that
   are copies of code from the HTML page that don’t belong in an RSS feed at all.
 * You need to go back to the developer and have them give you a feed that validates.
   That is how you will resolve the problem.
 * Interestingly enough I was able to subscribe to your feed in Google Reader as
   it is, but as you see IE can’t read it, and it fails feed validation.
 *  Thread Starter [loftgolf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/loftgolf/)
 * (@loftgolf)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-for-rss-feed/#post-1066222)
 * Thank you very much, stvwlf! I will have to contact my web developer and have
   them fix this. I really appreciate your help. Have a great weekend!

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)

The topic ‘Error message for RSS feed!’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [RSS](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rss/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [loftgolf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/loftgolf/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-for-rss-feed/#post-1066222)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics
