RSS Troubleshooting

Short answer: The warning means your RSS feed does not state its own address. Declare the Atom namespace on the <rss> ele...

Short answer: Serve an RSS 2.0 feed as application/rss+xml; charset=utf-8 and an Atom feed as application/atom+xml; charset=utf...

Short answer: When an RSS feed works in your browser but fails in a reader or an auto-posting tool, use curl to see what a serv...

Short answer: In RSS 2.0, pubDate and lastBuildDate must use the RFC 822 date format, for example Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +00...

Short answer: A relative URL such as /blog/my-post/ or ../images/photo.jpg only works inside your own website, because the brow...

Most of the time, an RSS feed behaves exactly the way you'd expect: newest post first, in the order things were actually publis...

This is one of the more frustrating troubleshooting situations in RSS auto-posting precisely because every individual piece of ...

It's a question that comes up often among local government communications staff, community page moderators, and local news edit...

You publish a new post, refresh your Facebook page, and nothing. Ten minutes later, still nothing. Then, twenty-two minute...

Most auto-posting troubleshooting conversations are about the whole system going quiet — a feed that stops updating, an entire ...

An auto-posting tool grabs the image URL out of your RSS feed, hands it to Facebook, Instagram, or Pinterest, and trusts that i...

When an RSS feed stops updating on a social account, the actual cause is almost always sitting in an HTTP response header that ...