Title: WordPress RSS Validation Issues
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# WordPress RSS Validation Issues

 *  [ScottMrXL](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottmrxl/)
 * (@scottmrxl)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-rss-validation-issues/)
 * WordPress RSS Validation Issues
 * I am trying to get this fixed and keep running into issues with feedburner. The
   error is:
 * error on line 679 at column 67: Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !
   
   Bytes: 0x05 0x20 0x66 0x6F
 * The site link and the feed link are below. This uses a Themify theme – Suco.
 * [http://www.mrexcel.com/learnexcel/](http://www.mrexcel.com/learnexcel/) and
   
   [http://www.mrexcel.com/learnexcel/feed/](http://www.mrexcel.com/learnexcel/feed/)
 * Any ideas on this?

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 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-rss-validation-issues/#post-4456846)
 * Your feed works fine, chrome-extension://nlbjncdgjeocebhnmkbbbdekmmmcbfjd/subscribe.
   html?http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mrexcel.com%2Flearnexcel%2Ffeed%2F (I’ll try to get you
   a url that doesn’t require an extension.)
 * You have a plugin or theme that has a problem.
 * Have you tried: flushing any caching plugins you might be running, as well as
   server and/or browser caches.
 * deactivating all plugins (yes, all) to see if this resolves the problem. If this
   works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(
   s). If you can’t get into your admin dashboard, try resetting the plugins folder
   by FTP or PhpMyAdmin (read “How to deactivate all plugins when you can’t log 
   in to wp-admin” if you need help). Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can
   still cause problems. Also remember to deactivate any plugins in the mu-plugins
   folder. The easiest way is to rename that folder to mu-plugins-old
 * switching to the Twenty Fourteen theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.
   If you can’t log in to change themes, you can remove the theme folders via FTP
   so the only one is `twentyfourteen`. That will force your site to use it.
 * manually upgrading. When all else fails, download a fresh copy of the latest.
   zip file of 3.5 (top right on this page) to your computer, and use that to copy
   up. You may need to delete the wp-admin and wp-includes folders on your server.
   Read the Manual Update directions first.
 *  [rmeechan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rmeechan/)
 * (@rmeechan)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-rss-validation-issues/#post-4456982)
 * Hi,
 * I want to set up an RSS feed on the blog page only of my site. I am trying to
   set it up with Mail Chimp but every url I try in Mail Chimp I get a message saying
   that it’s invalid or doesn’t exist. I’ve tried:
    [http://mydomain.com/feed](http://mydomain.com/feed)
   [http://my](http://my) domain.com/blog [http://my](http://my) domain.com/blog/
   [http://my](http://my) domain.com/blog/feed [http://my](http://my) domain.com/
   blog/feed/rss [http://mydomain.com/feed/rss](http://mydomain.com/feed/rss)
 * Can anyone help me with what I’m doing wrong please?
 * Thanks.
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-rss-validation-issues/#post-4456983)
 * [@rmeechan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rmeechan/), create a new thread
   here: [http://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting#postform](http://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting#postform)

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## Tags

 * [feedburner](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/feedburner/)
 * [RSS](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rss/)
 * [rss validation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rss-validation/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-rss-validation-issues/#post-4456983)
 * Status: not resolved

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