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Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)
Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
*Looks*
Oh yeah, validator is saying 500 error.
*Adds RSS to FreshRSS*
That feed added without any problems for me. That’s weird.
Try disabling all of your plugins and then try to validated the feed. This is a temporary step for troubleshooting and you can re-enabled all of your plugins right after that.
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t-p
(@t-p)
Hello and thank you for your quick replies.
@jdembowsk: My theme developer TagDiv already tried that; no luck.
@t-p: I just read that earlier and everything appears to be OK (to my untrained eye).
FYI: I switched Cloudflare to Developer mode to see if that would help. No such luck.
(It’s set to resume at 3:52pm ET.)
That server acts like it is fast enough but may be blocking anything other than a known feed reader or browser (it’s rejecting bots and automated systems).
Check your robots.txt file and/or ask your host for help.
Alternatively, you might make use of one of those feed aggregator services or a feed sanitizer…
@jnashhawkins Thank you for your suggestion. As good as they have mostly been, they havem’t really helped me drill down on this issue. But the robots.txt file sounds like a good place to look.
What should I be searching for in that file, or add to it?
For an aggregator, I am using Hootsuite and dlivr.it, but the services are limited. Is there a better solution?
Finally, what would a sanitizer do for me?
Thank you again!
warrentab
Hi again –
I tried the feed sanitizer; but since I wasn’t exactly sure how to work with it.
So I used the url for the sanitized file, but that too got bounced by Pinterest (it did however pass the feed validator test).
I checked the robots.txt file, and this is what I saw:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Please let me know what else I can do to fix this.
Thank you.
warrentab
