Title: Plugin causes RSS feed validation to fail
Last modified: October 2, 2018

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# Plugin causes RSS feed validation to fail

 *  Resolved [Karissa Skirmont](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karissa/)
 * (@karissa)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causes-rss-feed-validation-to-fail/)
 * I was trying to connect the WP blog to push posts to emails via MailChimp.
    MC
   said ” URL.com/feed/ is not a valid RSS feed.” I deactivated all plugins and 
   reactivated them one by one, testing each time with [http://validator.w3.org/feed/](http://validator.w3.org/feed/).
   I narrowed it down to StopBadBots and deactivated it.
 * Here is the error it gave:
 * > Sorry
   >  This feed does not validate.
   > line 1, column 0: XML parsing error: <unknown>:1:0: no element found [help]
   > In addition, interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be
   > improved by implementing the following recommendation.
   > Feeds should not be served with the “text/html” media type [help]
 * I have the latest version of WP/plugin running on SiteGround with a Genesis child
   theme. So not sure what is causing it.
 * Just thought you should know.

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 *  Plugin Author [sminozzi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sminozzi/)
 * (@sminozzi)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causes-rss-feed-validation-to-fail/#post-10742533)
 * Hi Karissa,
 * Take a look in our troubleshooting page:
    [http://siterightaway.net/troubleshooting/](http://siterightaway.net/troubleshooting/)
   Maybe you have lack of memory.
 * Cheers,
    Bill

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causes-rss-feed-validation-to-fail/#post-10742533)
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