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Hi @happynaturaldog thank you for your reply, glad you found it, and your reply will be helpful for others having the same issue if they are using Rank Math.

Also @amyhall I would highly recommend that you open a ticket with Rank Math here regarding image title SEO affecting your RSS feed and breaking validation:

https://support.rankmath.com/product/rank-math-suite/

Thanks for your reply @martinedens!

I will look into this more and see if it’s something that Rank Math is doing on their end wrong that should be addressed, and perhaps if it’s something our plugin can help adjust/fix when it sees it.

Hi @amyhall I’ve had reports that it is Rank Math SEO’s Image SEO options that are causing this, specifically the Image Title SEO option I believe.

Please test by disabling Image SEO and see if that solves the issue?

Hi @martinedens We’ve had a 2nd report of the extra title tag… can you submit a bug report using our plugin’s Contact form? I’d like to figure out what’s causing this for you and for others it may be happening to.

Hi @123satchipanda our plugin should work with almost any form, as it uses HTML form element and then the ID of the form to send as the form name.

That NinjaForm thread is very old, and I see we didn’t see it in time to reply back then. Now we are seeing all posts immediately, and so can reply often.

Please give it a try, and let me know if you see that it is not working. I will say that Google Analytics has changed, and so the plugin may still need an update to work with the new GA v4 tags, we have not tested it with v4 yet.

Hi @martinedens I don’t think our plugin is adding the title and alt text to the feed, and there’s an extra / in the IMG as well. I would try deactivating other plugins, a few at a time, and check the raw feed after each time, to see if it goes away. Once it does, reactivate those plugins one at a time, checking the feed each time, and see which one causes it to be added back.

The other more advanced method is to use SSH (you’ll need be familiar with SSH and have SSH access), and use the grep command to find code relating to the RSS feed, ‘the_excerpt_rss’ is one good way:

cd wp-content/plugins/
grep -r 'the_excerpt_rss' *

For my site as an example, it displays:

# grep -r 'the_excerpt_rss' *
featured-images-for-rss-feeds/featured_images_in_rss.php:            'the_excerpt_rss',
featured-images-for-rss-feeds-premium/includes/premium/premium.php:add_filter( 'the_excerpt_rss', 'firss_insert_ads', 15 );
featured-images-for-rss-feeds-premium/includes/premium/premium.php:add_filter( 'the_excerpt_rss', 'firss_featured_images_in_rss_first_image', 1001, 1 );
featured-images-for-rss-feeds-premium/featured_images_in_rss.php:            'the_excerpt_rss',
feedzy-rss-feeds/includes/feedzy-rss-feeds-feed-tweaks.php:add_filter( 'the_excerpt_rss', 'feedzy_insert_thumbnail' );
wordpress-seo/src/integrations/front-end/rss-footer-embed.php:		\add_filter( 'the_excerpt_rss', [ $this, 'embed_rssfooter_excerpt' ] );
wp-piwik/classes/WP_Piwik.php:				add_filter ( 'the_excerpt_rss', array (

From that result, I see that plugins with these folder names have code affecting the RSS feed:

featured-images-for-rss-feeds
featured-images-for-rss-feeds-premium
feedzy-rss-feeds
wordpress-seo
wp-piwik

And I can narrow down which one is causing issues or conflicting with other plugins.

Let me know if you need help finding the plugn? It may also be your theme, or a plugin that adds title tags to all images, and is affecting the feed as well.