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I’ve finally sorted this out. I compared the options tables in my installation against vanilla. I realised that one of the differences was that the option_name of “Home” on my installation was just https:// and should the home url.

I edited this directly in the database.

Everything then works fine.

This also puts the full url into the Setting/General/Blog address (URL), which I would have thought should be blank. Even so I’d tried putting the full url in several times, to see if this made any difference. However I probably did this with a previous theme and I think the source of my problems has been that this theme couldn’t cope with the upgrade to 2.7.1

I’ve still not managed to get this sorted. I’ve rebuilt the site, importing the old data into a new database and reloading all the files. I’ve changed the theme and now get no validation errors for the pages, but the feed still won’t validate.

I then switched the new installation to look at a blank WP new database and the rss feed works fine. However I need to keep the existing data, I don’t want to ust abandon it.

So somewhere in the data is the problem, but where? There is a table called options looks the most likely and many of the option_names start with rss, but I don’t know what any of them mean. I’ve been through all the admin settings and set and reset many of them to see if I can make any difference, but no luck.

All ideas gratefully received.

Many thanks again

The key issue for me is that the feed does not validate, so it cannot be picked up by another website.

I’ve removed most of the errors that came up with the validation check and think the only way to remove the last validation two errors is to move to a different theme. I’ve tried using a standard WP theme and the validation has no errors, but still the feed validation is incorrect. It is consistently not picking up the main url.

Is this something that needs a few minutes or hours to sort itself out, or if it is correct should the feed validate immediately?

If the latter, then problem would appear not to be the theme.

Thanks for your quick reply, but I really don’t understand it.

Why do I need the feed to whttm?

Where is the link with a different colour?

What feed address do I need to put into the widget, and why have I not needed to do this before?