Plugin suddenly stopped working

Hi @dojaro,

The RSS feed source is not available. Please see the image below.

Can you please check with the RSS feed owner regarding this or check if any other similar source is available?

You can also validate the feed using an RSS validator – https://www.aakashweb.com/articles/how-to-check-if-rss-feed-is-valid-or-not/

Thanks,

Aakash

Hi @dojaro,

Glad you figured it out. I’m marking this as resolved.

Hi @dojaro,

The RSS feed is still invalid. Please see the report below.

https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.holwert.frl%2Ffeed

Below are the options,

1. Ask the feed owner to remove the blank line at the top.
2. (or) use the code below to remove that whitespace before parsing.

Hope this helps.

function srr_strip_whitespace( &$feed, $url){

    $transient_key = 'sanitized_feed_' . md5($url);
    $cached_feed = get_transient($transient_key);
    
    if ($cached_feed) {
        $sanitized_feed = $cached_feed;
    } else {
        $raw_feed = file_get_contents($url);

        if ($raw_feed === false) {
            return;
        }

        $sanitized_feed = trim($raw_feed);
        set_transient($transient_key, $sanitized_feed, 12*HOUR_IN_SECONDS);
    }

    $feed->feed_url = null;
    $feed->set_raw_data($sanitized_feed);

}

add_action( 'wp_feed_options', 'srr_strip_whitespace', 10, 2 );

Thanks,

Aakash

Hi @dojaro,

If you are the owner of the RSS feed, then you can try disabling the plugins one by one or the theme and see if the blank line is removed. You can use this method to find the problem. A blank line at the top will not work with any RSS feed.

To insert custom code, there are various methods. Please follow the article below. You can also Google for more info.

https://www.aakashweb.com/articles/best-methods-to-insert-custom-php-code-in-wordpress/

Thanks,

Aakash