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There's an issue where both the main "Forums" and "Topics" RSS feeds generated by wpForo don't validate, and it happens right here on these forums, too.
http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwpforo.com%2Fcommunity%2F%3Ftype%3Drss2%26forum%3Dg throws the error:
line 5, column 23: link must be a full and valid URL: # [help]
<link>#</link>
It's causing issues with Feedly and such, as well, likely due to the same reason.
Hi @davehamilton,
Thank you for letting us know, these issues are already fixed in next version. It comes very soon.
We updated our site to wpForo Forum 1.5.2, as I'm assuming you did, too, and this error still exists (referencing the feedvalidator link above).
Also, related, is this issue where the content of the RSS feeds contains HTML entities in raw text: https://www.macobserver.com/community/forum-suggestions/post-look-funny-when-viewed-via-reeder-3-rss-reader/
Also, related, is this issue where the content of the RSS feeds contains HTML entities in raw text: https://www.macobserver.com/community/forum-suggestions/post-look-funny-when-viewed-via-reeder-3-rss-reader/
This is not a problem.
Also, related, is this issue where the content of the RSS feeds contains HTML entities in raw text: https://www.macobserver.com/community/forum-suggestions/post-look-funny-when-viewed-via-reeder-3-rss-reader/
This is not a problem.
First, thank you for the upcoming fix on the one lingering RSS issue. That's awesome.
As for this not being a problem, I'm not sure what you mean. No other RSS feeds look like this, and our readers and users definitely see this as a problem.
I compared wpForo's RSS/XML to the RSS/XML that Wordpress generates for regular posts, and the difference is that wpForo's has the HTML entities converted inside the CDATA whereas wordpress's leaves them be.
wpForo has:
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi @davehamilton,</p><p>Thank you for letting us know, these issues are already fixed in next version. It comes very soon.</p>]]></content:encoded>
and if Wordpress were to have done it, it would be more like:
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi @davehamilton,</p><p>Thank you for letting us know, these issues are already fixed in next version. It comes very soon.</p>]]></content:encoded>
I just checked Forum RSS's and they are valid.
The error "Missing atom:link with rel="self" can be ignored.
I also checked Topic RSS's, they are also valid:
Only the "All Topics" general RSS has one error. We'll fix this in next version:
"line 11, column 23: link must be a full and valid URL: #"
