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wpForo 1.x.x [Solved] Main "Forums" and "Topics" RSS Feeds do not validate

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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.

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Robert
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Hi @davehamilton,

Thank you for letting us know, these issues are already fixed in next version. It comes very soon.

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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).

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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/

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Posted by: DaveHamilton

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.

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Posted by: DaveHamilton

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[&lt;p&gt;Hi @davehamilton,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for letting us know, these issues are already fixed in next version. It comes very soon.&lt;/p&gt;]]></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>
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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: #"

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