Fix XML parsing Failed Error often thrown by WordPress, usually after thankful WordPress update or a Plugin update. It is broad spectrum fix. Unfortunately, I suddenly noticed that Google is not sending Feedburner email. At morning, an unfortunate update went for W3 Total Cache with lot of Pop Ups. After discovering and fixing, I thought to write this broad spectrum dosage to Fix XML parsing Failed Error WordPress.
Fix XML parsing Failed Error WordPress : Before We Begin
Please read this guide first like any holy book – Fix WordPress RSS Feed Not Updating Problem. The logical steps should be the same. Cool down, follow the info graphics of that guide. As in this cases where we are getting XML parsing Failed Error, we will stop at Step 2 of the info graphics. Right? Then we will fix it and proceed. Let us fix it first.
Fix XML parsing Failed Error WordPress : Blame PHP
Actually, it is PHP which is responsible for this error. The possibly the best solution is to add this things :
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1 2 3 | $out = ob_get_contents(); $out = str_replace(array("n", "r", "t", " "), "", $input); ob_end_clean(); |
to wp-includes/feed-rss2.php (and/or other Feed generating PHP files like that for comment). As we have root access, we edited the file on nano text editor going to the root of WordPress installation :
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 | nano wp-includes/feed.rss2.php # Editor <?php /** * RSS2 Feed Template for displaying RSS2 Posts feed. * * @package WordPress */ header('Content-Type: ' . feed_content_type('rss-http') . '; charset=' . get_op$ $more = 1; // We have added from here $out = ob_get_contents(); $out = str_replace(array("n", "r", "t", " "), "", $input); ob_end_clean(); // here it ends ! echo '<?xml version ="1.0" encoding="'.get_option('blog_charset').'"?'.'>'; ?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" // no need read the whole file! |
We just saved the file. Well, it worked. There are lot of Feed related PHP files like feed-rss2-comments.php, feed-rss.php, feed-rdf.php, feed-atom.php, feed-atom-comments.php etc. but this one is for what we get as Post feeds. We have modified the previous how to do steps in this update :
Without going to much details, this method is used in Joomla! to clean the added white spaces.
