Validate feeds directly from the backend
RSS Chimp generates RSS feeds that are fully compliant with the RSS 2.0 specification. In most cases, your feeds will validate without any issues out of the box.
If you want to double-check a feed, you can easily validate it yourself:
- Open your feed URL in the browser (for example, the default RSS Chimp feed or any custom feed URL).
- Copy the full feed URL from the address bar (or copy the feed’s source code).
- Paste it into an external validator such as the W3C Feed Validation Service or any other trusted RSS validator.
These tools will show you whether the feed is valid and, if not, which parts are causing problems. If validation errors appear, they are often related to the feed content (e.g., invalid HTML, special characters, or third-party embeds) rather than the feed structure generated by RSS Chimp.