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XML Parsing Error: xml processing instruction not (40 posts)

  1. meisenstadt
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    p.s. I have also turned off all my plugins; found a few more related threads; seems a lot of people are going crazy...
    I have emailed Technorati and WordPress support directly about this, last week, but still no news.

  2. meisenstadt
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    Cross-correlating/posting a few other threads in case it helps; I note that ALL are left at a dead end HELP!

    Broken RSS feeds and XML errors

    Tags do not update Technorati

    RSS feed still not working

    Yahoo RSS failure

    XML Parsing Error: xml processing instruction not

  3. girlontherocks
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    I was able to get rid of the two blank lines at the beginning of my rss feed by un-editing my functions.php file. I had manually editted this to accomodate the new widgets feature and this introduced the error that i had.

  4. meisenstadt
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    I have a solution that worked for me, primarily involving some single-quote to double-quote conversion in the file wp-rss2.php, for which I have posted the old/new file comparison here on my blog. I am cross-posting this to a total of 5 different threads here on the WordPress support forum, mainly out of a desire to help those whom I know must have also been going crazy with this or similar problems. Many thanks for sticking with it!
    -Marc

  5. WPChina
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    I tried meisenstadt's solution, but it didn't work. I also disabled all my plugins, but still nothing. Anyone have an idea on what is happening? I didn't touch anything...

  6. theeverywheregirl
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    I just wanted to let anyone know just in case...I had the same problem and just started deactivating a plugin and then checking the feed, and it it didn't change I would reactivate it....

    I found that the category cloud plugin was the one that had the problem. I reactivated it to go and edit it, but the feed started working again! not sure why but it's fine with me.

    I will probably check the feed every once in a while to make sure everything is cool.

  7. theeverywheregirl
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    well for some reason my problem came back...so instead of deactivating all my plugins, I went to the plugin editor and looked for any weird spaces....I found that my TagCloud.php plugin had a whole bunch of stuff at the top....all is better now...so just look for weird stuff before the <?php or after the ?>

  8. smithcorona
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    EASY FIX!
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    one potential cause of this is whitespace at the end of wp-config.php

    edit this file and delete any whitespace from beyond the ?>

  9. gibbs12
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    THANK YOU!!!

    I fixed mine by deleting the white space beyond the ?> in the wp-config.php file.

    This was after trying everything with all of my plugins to no avail.

  10. issa
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    check also your index.php file at your root folder or any php you've edited recently

    the whitespace in the index.php was messing with my feed

    validating helps: http://feedvalidator.org/

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