MrBlank
Member
Posted 2 years ago #
I just realized that my feeds are broken. I'm using the Feedburner plug-in and when I go to my feed on feedburner, I get this error:
XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity
Location: http://feeds.feedburner.com/joshnichols
Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
^
It's strange, when I deactivate the feedburner plug-in it still forwards to feedburner.
I did just install the Simplepie RSS plug-in, but I removed it and I still got the error.
My blog is: http://joshnichols.com (feed links in footer)
My feeds are: http://feeds.feedburner.com/joshnichols and http://feeds.feedburner.com/joshnichols-comments
Thanks!
Feedburner modifies the .htaccess file, so when you deactivate it, you need to look at that.
Here are the results from the feed validator:
http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjoshnichols.com%2Ffeed#l2
For some reason your line 1 is blank - everything should be moved up one line.
Feedburner modifies the .htaccess file
Huh? No it doesn't. At least, the plugin that Feedburner recommends from their page doesn't.
http://orderedlist.com/wordpress-plugins/feedburner-plugin/
If you still see the redirect after disabling this plugin, that's because your browser is caching the redirect (betcha didn't know a browser could do that, huh?). Clear your browser cache and/or restart the browser to not see the redirect.
MrBlank
Member
Posted 2 years ago #
Otto42, I didn't know a browser would do that! thanks. I did use the plug-in Feedburner recommends.
BUT - My feeds still have an extra blank line at the top, so they still don't work. What would cause the extra blank line?
MrBlank
Member
Posted 2 years ago #
FYI: I found some similar posts about this before and I have removed all extra space before and after my plug-in files. I have also tried disabling all plug-ins, but I still have the error.
Check your wp-config.php file. That's a prime candidate for having an extra blank line at the top or bottom of the file. Same goes for your theme's functions.php file, if you have one.
@ Otto42:
"Huh? No it doesn't. At least, the plugin that Feedburner recommends from their page doesn't."
The plugin I'm using does from here:
http://orderedlist.com/wordpress-plugins/feedburner-plugin/
However, I still use v2.0.2 of the plugin - it seems I should upgrade to 2.2 as it does it without the .htaccess.
MrBlank
Member
Posted 2 years ago #
wp-config.php and functions.php are clear of extra linespace at the top and bottom.
Could this be a database issue? If not, I might just remove my wordpress install and reinstall it. I'm almost out of other options. :-(
If you guys have any other ideas, let me know. Thanks for the help!
MrBlank
Member
Posted 2 years ago #
Also, I am using the Orderedlist.com plug-in. The options screen was giving me an error (of course, I didn't write it down - rats!) with the 2.1 version so I upgraded to 2.2 and it stopped giving the error.
At the moment, the plug-in is deactivated.
Could this be a database issue?
No. It's almost certainly some file, somewhere, with an extra blank line in it. Finding what file, is, of course, the tricky bit.
But it's *extremely* unlikely to be anything else.
MrBlank
Member
Posted 2 years ago #
Oh snap! I checked over every Wordpress file and it was right where the other posts said to look. Duh!
There it was in my Amazon Media Management amm_extras.php file. I created another AMM template last week and there was an extra <?php ?> between the templates. It wasn't at the end of the file, but in the middle, so I'm not that dumb. ;-) I removed it and my feeds now work.
Strange how that one little thing breaks the RSS but not my php template. Oh, well.
Thanks, you guys for the help. I appreciate it!
