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t-p
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I’m familiar with the codex and had looked at that several times Tara. Nothing helped in this situation. It was working fine up until a few weeks ago. Now no idea what is causing it to white screen.
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t-p
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Just a blank page here: http://personalprofitability.com/feed/
It’s not blank page.
What I see is a popup window asking me where to save the file!!!!!
That’s not the WP core behavior.
Feed validator reports:
Sorry
This feed does not validate.
line 1, column 0: XML parsing error: <unknown>:1:0: no element found
http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpersonalprofitability.com%2Ffeed
That is interesting and perplexing! I just see a completely blank page, and when I view source, I see the same blank page – in Chrome.
I switched to Firefox and got that download prompt that you described. Thanks for letting me know you saw that! I found that that is apparently the default behavior in Firefox when trying to view an RSS feed. (http://textpattern.com/faq/181/firefox-tries-to-download-my-rss-feed)
That led me to this post: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-access-rss-feed-url-leads-to-file-download/. I tried that plugin as a solution, but no dice. It just causes a PHP error.
This post suggests the same plugin that gave the PHP error: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-url-asks-me-to-download-file/
I have confirmed that the feed doesn’t work with the main feed or category feeds. My podcast feed, which is generated by the Blubrry PowerPress plugin, is working fine. So it is the WordPress generated feeds with the issue somewhere.
I just tried a category feed through the validator and it says the same thing. 1 line, 0 columns. Nothing found, so it does appear to be blank.
Any other ideas from the WordPress universe?
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t-p
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As the validator suggests, your feed is EMPTY.
Try:
– resetting the plugins folder by FTP. Also remember to deactivate any plugins in the mu-plugins folder (if you have created such folder). The easiest way is to rename that folder to mu-plugins-old.
– If that does not help, then with the plugin folder still reset, try switching to the unedited default Theme (Twenty Sixteen) for a moment using the WP dashboard to rule out any theme-specific issue (theme functions can interfere like plugins).
Renaming the plugins folder and changing the theme did it, and when I switched by to my theme the feed is still there. So that’s a good step. Now putting my plugins back together one-by-one to make sure it doesn’t break this time.
Thanks for the guidance Tara.
