Posted 4 years ago #
My feed will not validate, as I get the
Sorry
This feed does not validate.
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line 2, column 0: XML parsing error: <unknown>:2:0: xml declaration not at start of external entity [help]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
In addition, this feed has an issue that may cause problems for some users. We recommend fixing this issue.
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error as well. Can someone tell me how to resolve this? My URL is http://www.thepokerstrat.com
1. What happened when you clicked on that [help] link?
2. Get a decent hosting, the feeds don't work (well) on the godaddy free hosting.
Posted 4 years ago #
well, we did pay for the domain name, does free hosting have to do with the problem? when I clicked the 'help' link, it said this:
Explanation
If an XML declaration (<?xml ... ?>) appears in your feed, it must be the first thing in the feed, before any whitespace.
Unfortunately, with WordPress it seems all too easy for a plugin, a theme, or for your configuration file to contain a blank line. Further compounding this problem, some — but not all — feed readers compensate for this common error, allowing the error to go undetected for quite a while.
Solution* Check your wp-rss2.php and wp-atom.php files for blank lines outside of <? and ?> bracketed sections.
* Check your wp-config.php file for blank lines outside of <? and ?> bracketed sections.
* Check your theme's functions.php file for blank lines outside of <? and ?> bracketed sections.
* One by one, disable plugins and revalidate until you isolate the one causing the problem.
Unfortunately, I tried all the solutions, and they did not work. Any tips?
does free hosting have to do with the problem
Yep - the ads that are injected to all of your pages break RSS feeds.
Search here for "godaddy free" for many more examples.
Posted 4 years ago #
For me it wasn't blank lines, but two extra lines at the end of my theme's functions.php file including a redundant <title></title> tag.
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