Title: Validation suggests Avoid content:encoded
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Validation suggests Avoid content:encoded

 *  [dwjr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwjr/)
 * (@dwjr)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-suggests-avoid-contentencoded/)
 * Hello,
 * I am a newbie to WordPress and I do not know php.
 * When I validated my rss feed, I received this message:
 * Avoid content:encoded
 * Avoid using elements in namespaces when there are already core elements that 
   do the same thing.
 * The item contains an element that duplicates the semantics of the description
   element. Be advised that clients will behave unpredictably in the presence of
   such an element: some will prefer it over the description element, others will
   ignore it, and the behavior may depend on the order in which such elements appear
   in the item.
 * Select whether you want your feed to contains summaries (sometimes called excerpts)
   or full content (a.k.a. body).
    Encode your selection as HTML. Place the result
   in the item description element. Remove other elements that provide the same 
   function.
 * Also, when I used the excerpt option with the advanced post, it did not display.
   I published it. Why was that?

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-suggests-avoid-contentencoded/)
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