Title: hmmm… RSS XML error
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# hmmm… RSS XML error

 *  [donkeydigst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donkeydigst/)
 * (@donkeydigst)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hmmm-rss-xml-error/)
 * Any clues on how to resolve this would very much appreciated:
 * The XML page cannot be displayed
    Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet.
   Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.
 * ——————————————————————————–
 * End tag ‘dc:creator’ does not match the start tag ‘ADMINNICENAME’. Error processing
   resource ‘[http://donkeydigest.com/?feed&#8230](http://donkeydigest.com/?feed&#8230);
 *  <dc:creator><ADMINNICENAME></dc:creator>
    ——————————-^

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 *  Thread Starter [donkeydigst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donkeydigst/)
 * (@donkeydigst)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hmmm-rss-xml-error/#post-416619)
 * Is this a sore subject here? 🙂
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hmmm-rss-xml-error/#post-416624)
 * Don’t bump after 30 minutes if you don’t want your posts deleted… please!
 * Be patient. Your question might need some special knowledge – so wait until a
   helper with that knowledge shows up.
    BTW, you just successfully removed your
   post from the un-answered topics queue. Most helpers go there first to start.
   Next time keep in mind this!
 *  Thread Starter [donkeydigst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donkeydigst/)
 * (@donkeydigst)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hmmm-rss-xml-error/#post-416626)
 * sorry. I’m a newbie here. 🙁
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hmmm-rss-xml-error/#post-416629)
 * You are using “<ADMINNICENAME>” as the name of one of the users?
 * Don’t do that, would be my suggestion.
 * Go to the Users Panel and find the admin user. Give him a nicer name. The admin’s
   name is the creator of the blog. Specifically, remove the <>’s around his name.
 *  Thread Starter [donkeydigst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donkeydigst/)
 * (@donkeydigst)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hmmm-rss-xml-error/#post-416632)
 * thanks. Here’s the issue. It would let me edit the name. And there are no <> 
   around the name.
 * Thoughts?
 *  Thread Starter [donkeydigst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donkeydigst/)
 * (@donkeydigst)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hmmm-rss-xml-error/#post-416634)
 * wait! There was an option to do that! Thanks!
 *  [mimieux](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mimieux/)
 * (@mimieux)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hmmm-rss-xml-error/#post-416916)
 * Once I figured out what it meant, it was an easy fix.
 * IN my case, ADMINNICENAME meant I had not chosen an author for my posts.
 * picking an author fixed this.
    _________________ [http://www.madbadcat.org](http://www.madbadcat.org)
 *  [mimieux](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mimieux/)
 * (@mimieux)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hmmm-rss-xml-error/#post-416917)
 * of course i spent hours trying to fix it so now i am traveling to the forums 
   i visited and posting my solution. hope it works for you
 *  [publisher1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/publisher1/)
 * (@publisher1)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hmmm-rss-xml-error/#post-416938)
 * I having the exact same problem, getting an error message about ADMINNICENAME.
 * Could someone tell me the process of how “to pick an author”
    to fix this as 
   suggested in the earlier post.
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hmmm-rss-xml-error/#post-416939)
 * Is it Users -> Your Profile and the “nickname” field?
 *  [publisher1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/publisher1/)
 * (@publisher1)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hmmm-rss-xml-error/#post-416941)
 * Thank you.
    Users -> Your Profile and the “nickname” field worked when I added
   a nickname, and now the rss feed works as well.
 * When I added the nickname I could see that
    ADMINNICENAME was in the drop down
   menu as well.

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## Tags

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

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 11 replies
 * 6 participants
 * Last reply from: [publisher1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/publisher1/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hmmm-rss-xml-error/#post-416941)
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