Title: RSS Feed Error: xmlParseEntityRef: no name
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# RSS Feed Error: xmlParseEntityRef: no name

 *  [Wil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/limecanvas/)
 * (@limecanvas)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-xmlparseentityref-no-name/)
 * Hi All,
 * I’m posting this, not as a bug, but as a FYI.
 * I recently found that one of our client’s site feed was producing the following
   error.
 * > This page contains the following errors:
   > error on line 8 at column 34: xmlParseEntityRef: no name
   >  Below is a rendering
   > of the page up to the first error.
 * Tried everything including whitespace fix. Switched to TwentyTen and disabled
   all plugins. Even reinstalled WordPress 3.8.1
 * Nothing worked until I found this post:
    [http://nndung179.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/resolution-to-xmlparseentityref-noname-xml-error/](http://nndung179.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/resolution-to-xmlparseentityref-noname-xml-error/)
 * That lead me to look at the post content.
 * The last post that the client had published contained a single ampersand & in
   the content.
 * I replaced this with “and” and then republished the post.
 * That fixed the feed.
 * I then went back in to replicate the issue for this forum post and replaced “
   and” with “&” and republished. The feed is still OK so I don’t know what went
   wrong.
 * Looks like something, somewhere, either in the post save or the XML parser, didn’t
   encode the ampersand in the last post correctly.
 * Hope this helps if anyone else comes across this issue.
 * Cheerz,
    Wil.

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 *  [Monish92](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monish92/)
 * (@monish92)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-xmlparseentityref-no-name/#post-4770740)
 * I had to face this issue lately and your post helped me in resolving it. Thanks
   for posting it here!

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