I tried to add my forum feed to ifttt so that I could get email alerts when new content is posted however ifttt told me that there was a problem with the feed.

The error it gave was:

Not a valid feed url, missing feed title

So my questions are:

1. Is this a bug?
2. Can I fix it with some sort of hook/ filter?

The feed I was trying to add is here: http://prothemedesign.com/forums/feed/

[@netweb Keymaster 11 years, 12 months ago]

You can test feeds with the W3C Feed Validator http://validator.w3.org/feed/

As to why your feed is failing I think is probably an issue with your web host as when I check your feed the results are “Server returned HTTP Error 404: Not Found” and I would expect IFTTT would also have problems parsing the feed.

http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fprothemedesign.com%2Fforums%2Ffeed%2F

https://bbpress.org/topics/feed/ @ W3C Feed Validation Service
https://bbpress.org/forums/feed/ @ W3C Feed Validation Service

[@netweb Keymaster 11 years, 12 months ago]

Ignore any issues with the bbpress.org /topics/feed/ as this is an isolated bug here on bbpress.org

[@binarymoon Participant 11 years, 11 months ago]

that’s very interesting. No idea why the feed won’t load – it works fine if you access it directly :S

I don’t think it’s a server thing – but I’ll dig deeper.

Thanks for the pointer.

[@binarymoon Participant 11 years, 11 months ago]

Don’t know if anyone is interested but I solved this by removing a conflicting directory from my website root.