Title: [Plugin: Jetpack by WordPress.com] Jetpack Shortcode Embeds and RSS feeds
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Jetpack by WordPress.com] Jetpack Shortcode Embeds and RSS feeds

 *  [Ryan Imel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanimel/)
 * (@ryanimel)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jetpack-by-wordpresscom-jetpack-shortcode-embeds-and-rss-feeds/)
 * The last few days I have been getting complaints here and there about my RSS 
   feeds failing for people. After some looking into it, it seems the problem might
   be due to Jetpack’s Shortcode Embeds — specifically the [audio] shortcode.
 * I created a test site to test my theory: [http://jetpacktest.aspiringindie.com/](http://jetpacktest.aspiringindie.com/).
   It’s running Twenty Eleven and Jetpack, with only the Shortcode Embeds component
   activated.
 * You see three posts, with the second post down using the [audio] shortcode. If
   you run the feed through an RSS validator ([like this](http://validator.w3.org/appc/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjetpacktest.aspiringindie.com%2Ffeed))
   you’ll see that the feed is valid but includes a couple of recommendations. However
   if you try to add the same RSS feed ([http://jetpacktest.aspiringindie.com/feed](http://jetpacktest.aspiringindie.com/feed))
   to Google Reader you’ll see the problem I’m running into. Only the list view 
   displays the posts at all, but no excerpts when you click them, and the summary
   view displays nothing at all. It acts as though the RSS feed is broken, although
   it’s valid.
 * My guess is that this has to do with the [audio] shortcode outputting Javascript
   and stuff info the RSS feed, but I’m not positive. I’m also not sure if this 
   is specific to the audio shortcode or whether other shortcodes throw similar 
   errors.
 * I’m deactivating Jetpack’s shortcode embeds for the moment. It’s a bummer that
   the shortcodes will all display as text everywhere on my site, but that’s preferable
   to breaking all the RSS feeds that contain them. At this point I’m really just
   hoping the RSS feeds, once fixed, will update and work again in Google Reader
   without having to be re-added. That would hurt.
 * Let me know if there’s any other information I can provide to help debug and 
   fix this one.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jetpack/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jetpack/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Michael Adams (mdawaffe)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdawaffe/)
 * (@mdawaffe)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jetpack-by-wordpresscom-jetpack-shortcode-embeds-and-rss-feeds/#post-2859686)
 * Thanks for letting us know about the problem. We think we have the issue fixed
   and will release a new version shortly (no specific ETA) with a fix.
 *  Thread Starter [Ryan Imel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanimel/)
 * (@ryanimel)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jetpack-by-wordpresscom-jetpack-shortcode-embeds-and-rss-feeds/#post-2859765)
 * It doesn’t look like the most recent update to Jetpack includes this fix, so 
   I dug around a bit more. I didn’t find the bug, but instead a workaround that
   others might want to use for now.
 * Within the `audio.php` file inside the modules/shortcodes folder, just add this:
 * `if ( !(is_feed()) )`
 * This just stops the audio shortcode from outputting within RSS feeds. Fixes it
   for now.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jetpack-by-wordpresscom-jetpack-shortcode-embeds-and-rss-feeds/#post-2859765)
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