RSS Feeds in source show up as links to blog name, not feeds

it looks fine to me
https://www.indiemusicfilter.com/?feed=rss2

Feed seems to be okay, but where its listed in the source, it links to https://www.indiemusicfilter.com/Indie Music Filter.

or https://www.indiemusicfilter.com/Indie%20Music%20Filter

From your home page source:

</HEAD>
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="Indie Music Filter" />
<link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS .92" href="Indie Music Filter" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 0.3" href="Indie Music Filter" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Indie Music Filter RSS Comments Feed" href="Indie Music Filter" />

Your RSS feed urls are malformed and they’re outside the </head> tag in your theme’s header.php file.

Mind you, with over 800 validation errors on your home page, I think your theme needs a darn good overhaul.

Hey Esmi,
I had just tried putting the head tag after the rss links to see if that fixed the problem (some other blogs I had checked had the feed urls within the head tags).
With that change, I still seem to have the same problem.
Thanks for the validation error link, I’ll be sure to start looking into the problems in my theme, but I wonder if any of the changes I can make will fix this problem of the rss feed urls.
Got any more ideas?
C

Your rss links are malformed in header.php. The correct code should be:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS .92" href="<?php bloginfo('rss_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 0.3" href="<?php bloginfo('atom_url'); ?>" />

That is the exact code that I have in the header.php file.

But, when you view it from the page source, it shows with “Indie Music Filter”.

So is it possible that its not finding the correct rss2_url, rss_url, and atom_url urls properly?

I decided to just hardcode the absolute links into the header file.

<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS 2.0″ href=”https://www.indiemusicfilter.com/?feed=rss2&#8243; />
<link rel=”alternate” type=”text/xml” title=”RSS .92″ href=”https://www.indiemusicfilter.com/?feed=rss&#8221; />
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/atom+xml” title=”Atom 0.3″ href=”https://www.indiemusicfilter.com/?feed=atom&#8221; />
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”<?php bloginfo(’name’); ?> RSS Comments Feed” href=”https://www.indiemusicfilter.com/?feed=comments-rss2&#8243; />

not sure what the problem was, but this seems to fix my problem.

Could be a rogue plugin.

I thought that could have been it too…
to test that, I turned off all my plugins, then cleared cache, reloaded the page, same problem. would that be a way to test that?

The final test would be to resetting the plugins folder by phpMyAdmin? Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.