Title: HW Feed Cleaner
Author: Håkan Wennerberg
Published: <strong>ଏପ୍ରିଲ 3, 2013</strong>
Last modified: ଏପ୍ରିଲ 3, 2013

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# HW Feed Cleaner

 By [Håkan Wennerberg](https://profiles.wordpress.org/puffythepirateboy/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/hw-feed-cleaner.1.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/hw-feed-cleaner/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/hw-feed-cleaner/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/hw-feed-cleaner/#installation)
 * [Development](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/hw-feed-cleaner/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hw-feed-cleaner/)

## Description

This is a very simple, yet effective plugin that strips away non standard UTF-8 
characters from your various RSS and Atom feeds. A typical symptom that you need
this plugin is if WordPress is generating non-valid XML for your feeds.

## Installation

Use standard installation process for a plug-in:

 1. Install HW Feed Cleaner either via the WordPress.org plugin directory, or by uploading
    the files to your server.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

## FAQ

  Will this plugin alter my data?

It will not alter the data in your database. It simply hides invalid UTF-8 characters
that would cause your XML to become invalid during XML generation. Nothing is ever
changed in your database.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“HW Feed Cleaner” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Håkan Wennerberg ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/puffythepirateboy/)

[Translate “HW Feed Cleaner” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/hw-feed-cleaner)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hw-feed-cleaner/), 
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/hw-feed-cleaner/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/hw-feed-cleaner/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/hw-feed-cleaner/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * First version. Why go beta?

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **13 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.5.2**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hw-feed-cleaner/)
 * Tags
 * [Atom](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/atom/)[feed](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/feed/)
   [rss](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/rss/)[utf-8](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/utf-8/)
   [utf8](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/utf8/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/hw-feed-cleaner/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Håkan Wennerberg ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/puffythepirateboy/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hw-feed-cleaner/)