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1. Valerie123
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I just updated to 2.5, and I'm getting an error with my RSS feed.

   This is what it says

   XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity
   Location: http://christianpreschoolprintables.com/blog1/?feed=rss2
   Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

   Here's my blog http://www.christianpreschoolprintables.com/blog1

   and it's doing this for the post feed, and the comments feed.

   Is there something I can do to fix this? Kinda strange because it was working fine before I upgraded? Perhaps I did something wrong?

   I appreciate any help you can provide....

   In Christ,

   Valerie

2. Otto42
   Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   You have the blank line problem.

   Read this: http://feedvalidator.org/docs/error/WPBlankLine.html

   Check your wp-config.php file for blank lines. I recommend removing the ending ?> from that file.

3. Valerie123
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Wow, thanks for the quick reply!

   I went to my wp-config.php file and couldn't find any blank lines (outside the ?> right?

   I removed that from the bottom, but still not working?

   I went to the link and did all the steps in looking for blank lines but I couldn't find any blank lines.

   (PLease let me make sure I understand right though....

   This is my wp-rss2.php file

   <?php

   if (empty($wp)) {
   require_once('./wp-config.php');
   wp('feed=rss2');
   }

   require (ABSPATH . WPINC . '/feed-rss2.php');

   ?>

   Are you talking about blank lines within the code or a blank line before or after the code?

   I checked for lines before or after the code, and couldn't find anything and the problem still exists?

4. Otto42
   Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Forget the wp-rss2.php file, that's probably not it. I don't know why that site tells you to check that one.

   The most likely candidates are:
   wp-config.php
   The theme's functions.php file
   A plugin (any plugin)

   Check those. And for any of those files that end with ?>, then the ?> can be safely removed to ensure that it produces no blank lines at the end. But only if that last bit in the file is ?>. If it's anything else, leave it be.

5. Valerie123
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hmmm? Okay I went through the

   wp-config.php
   functions.php file

   and all plugins

   I erased the ?> and any blank lines that were at the end.

   Still not working?

   Any guesses as to what's going on?

   I appreciate your time, this is really confusing!

   Blessings,

   Valerie

6. moshu
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Your feeds are OK:
   http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fchristianpreschoolprintables.com%2Fblog1%2F%3Ffeed%3Drss2

7. Valerie123
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hmmm? Thats weird, yesterday they wern't working, and now this morning they're doing just fine...perhaps I needed to wait a minute or something for them to register the changes I made!

   Oh, I am sooooo excited! Thank you SOOOO much for helping me fix this!

   I can't wait to start promoting my feed!

   Blessings,

   Valerie

8. flyaga
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Please try this plugin fix-rss-feed, it will fix your rss error automatically, and you can get more information from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fix-rss-feed/, and you also can get help from the author website http://www.flyaga.info/en/wordpress/plugins/fix-rss-feed-error-wordpress-plugins.htm

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