Title: This feed does not validate. Fix
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# This feed does not validate. Fix

 *  [wernerpopken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wernerpopken/)
 * (@wernerpopken)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-feed-does-not-validate-fix/)
 * [http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi](http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi) finds
   errors in URLs regarding GET-vars, i.e. ‘&’ ist translated incorrectly.
 * Fix: comment the lines
 * # $curl = preg_replace(‘/&([^#])(?![a-z1-4]{1,8};)/’, ‘&$1’, $curl);
 * in function wptexturize($text) in wp-includes\functions-formatting.php
 * and
 * # $content = preg_replace(‘/&([^#])(?![a-z1-4]{1,8};)/i’, ‘&$1’, $content);
 * in function convert_chars($content, $flag = ‘obsolete’) , same file
 * Also: it complains
    This feed is valid, but may cause problems for some users.
   We recommend fixing these problems.
 * line 27, column 3: Avoid content:encoded (10 occurrences) [help]
 *  <content:encoded><![CDATA[<TABLE border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 ali …

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 * [wptexturize](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wptexturize/)

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 * Last reply from: [wernerpopken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wernerpopken/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-feed-does-not-validate-fix/)
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