Title: RSS feeds do not validate
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# RSS feeds do not validate

 *  Resolved [gwstacy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gwstacy/)
 * (@gwstacy)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feeds-do-not-validate/)
 * My feeds ‘do not validate’ when I was troubleshooting at feedburner.com. I posted
   my question to the feedburner help group at google 15 hours ago and still have
   not received any replies. I don’t know at all how to solve this issue.
 * Do I _need_ to use feedburner? This has been extremely stressful, I have been
   trying to resolve this for days.
    _ This is the problem as I stated on the google
   board: Neither of my feeds (original or feedburner) will validate. These are 
   the problems, first with the original and second with the feedburner. I have 
   attempted to fix them but it won’t let me so I don’t understand what I need to
   do to fix these problems.
 * ***For the original feed these are the errors:
 * This feed does not validate.
 * * line 2, column 0: Missing trailing slash in mediaRSS namespace
    [help]
 * <rss version=’2.0′ xmlns:media=’[http://search.yahoo.com/](http://search.yahoo.com/)
   
   mrss’>
 * In addition, interoperability with the widest range of feed readers
    could be
   improved by implementing the following recommendation.
 * *line 8, column 1: Missing atom:link with rel=”self” [help]
 * </channel>
    ^ Source: [http://growwithstacy.com/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/xml/media&#8230](http://growwithstacy.com/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/xml/media&#8230);
 * Line 2: # <rss version=’2.0′ xmlns:media=’[http://search.yahoo.com/](http://search.yahoo.com/)
   
   mrss’>
 * Line 8: </channel>
 * ***For the feedburner errors:
 * *line 2, column 190: Missing trailing slash in mediaRSS namespace
    [help]
 * … dburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css”?><rss
    xmlns:media=”[http://search](http://search).…
   ^
 * Source: [http://feeds.feedburner.com/growwithstacy/UVVe](http://feeds.feedburner.com/growwithstacy/UVVe)
 * Line 2: <?xml-stylesheet type=”text/xsl” media=”screen” href=”/~d/
    styles/rss2full.
   xsl”?><?xml-stylesheet type=”text/css” media=”screen” href=”[http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css&#8221](http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css&#8221);?
   ><rss xmlns:media=”[http://search.yahoo.com/mrss&#8221](http://search.yahoo.com/mrss&#8221);
   version=”2.0″>

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feeds-do-not-validate/#post-1514799)
 * To answer your first question, you do not need to use Feedburner.
 * To answer your second question, they do not validate, but those validation errors
   are minor and will probably cause no problems. You could fix the validation errors
   with the first feed by editing the `media-rss.php` file, but I strongly recommend
   against it. The validation errors with the Feedburner feed are related to the
   way that Feedburner is generating the feed, so there’s nothing you can do about
   that.
 * Basically, you don’t need Feedburner (unless you want any of the features provided
   by Feedburner), and the validation errors that you quoted are negligible and 
   shouldn’t cause any problems.
 *  Thread Starter [gwstacy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gwstacy/)
 * (@gwstacy)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feeds-do-not-validate/#post-1514848)
 * So if I didn’t use feedburner could people still subscribe to my blog? I was 
   told to use feedburner for that reason.
 * Thanks.
 *  [Mr E](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ebiladdress/)
 * (@ebiladdress)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feeds-do-not-validate/#post-1514850)
 * Feedburner is a blog subscription service. However most browsers today will subscribe
   feeds. This means that the natural feed from your websites RSS is able to be 
   sub’d by many means, including ones most visitors have installed in their web
   browser itself.
 * To see if your browser will pick this up, visit the link of your RSS feed directly
   in the browser. If it does work, you will see information in some bloggish format(
   display style depends on your browser)
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feeds-do-not-validate/#post-1514873)
 * If you can’t find your feed, refer to this guide:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds#Finding_Your_Feed_URL](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds#Finding_Your_Feed_URL)
 *  Thread Starter [gwstacy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gwstacy/)
 * (@gwstacy)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feeds-do-not-validate/#post-1514990)
 * I found my feed but I keep coming up with the same validation error because it
   automatically converts all of them back to [http://growwithstacy.com/?feed=rss2](http://growwithstacy.com/?feed=rss2)
 * Here is the error that I get with each one:
    “It looks like this is a web page,
   not a feed. I looked for a feed associated with this page, but couldn’t find 
   one. Please enter the address of your feed to validate.”
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feeds-do-not-validate/#post-1514996)
 * You’ll have to disable the redirect that’s pointing it to Feedburner, otherwise
   we can’t find out what’s wrong with the feed.
 *  Thread Starter [gwstacy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gwstacy/)
 * (@gwstacy)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feeds-do-not-validate/#post-1515003)
 * It is disabled.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feeds-do-not-validate/#post-1515004)
 * You feed was working for just a second while I was checking it, but now it’s 
   just showing your blog’s main page. Did you change something just now?
 *  Thread Starter [gwstacy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gwstacy/)
 * (@gwstacy)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feeds-do-not-validate/#post-1515006)
 * No, that’s what happened this morning. It was working for a while and then I 
   came back and it wasn’t working again.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feeds-do-not-validate/#post-1515007)
 * Try deactivating all of your plugins. If you can successfully view the feed after
   that, reactivate each one individually until you find the cause.
 *  [joeyguru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joeyguru/)
 * (@joeyguru)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feeds-do-not-validate/#post-1515107)
 * I am having the exact same problem as you.
    [http://makingmoneyexpo.com](http://makingmoneyexpo.com)
   I want to be able to use feed burner but it says it can’t validate. But yet when
   I try it, it works fine from my browser. Feed validater says it looks like just
   a web page not a feed. . Geesh.

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