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

DaveHamilton · 2018-08-31T14:43:29Z

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, toothrows 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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Sofy

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Sep 13, 2018 11:12 am

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Hi @teslariit,

We just released wpForo 1.5.3 version. Please update, this issue should be fixed.

https://wpforo.com/community/wpforo-announcements/wpforo-1-5-3-is-released/

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We'd really appreciate and be thankful if you leave a good review on plugin page. This is the best way to say thank you to this project and support team.

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DaveHamilton

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Sep 14, 2018 12:36 pm

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Sofy

Posted by: Sofy

Hi @teslariit,

We just released wpForo 1.5.3 version. Please update, this issue should be fixed.

https://wpforo.com/community/wpforo-announcements/wpforo-1-5-3-is-released/

Thanks so much for this, @Sofy and @Robert and team. For us this fixes it all, including both the RSS validation as well as the display of HTML entities in the RSS.

Thank you!!

This post was modified 7 years ago by DaveHamilton