Title: Blank RSS feed / feed validation error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Blank RSS feed / feed validation error

 *  Resolved [angela3fold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angela3fold/)
 * (@angela3fold)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-rss-feed-feed-validation-error/)
 * Please help!
 * Blog site is: [http://3foldcomm.com/blog](http://3foldcomm.com/blog)
    Feed is:
   [http://3foldcomm.com/blog/feed/](http://3foldcomm.com/blog/feed/)
 * The RSS feed for our blog used to work fine, then after the last update it has
   stopped, only loading a blank page. When I use Feed Validator, I get the following
   error:
 * line 1, column 0: XML parsing error: <unknown>:1:0: no element found
 * I have spent hours on this topic, trying all the suggested fixes (looking for
   extra lines, changing characters, deactivating plugins, etc.) nothing has worked.
 * I would be so very very grateful for any assistance! Thanks!

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 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-rss-feed-feed-validation-error/#post-1183643)
 * Maybe a file got damaged during the update. Try reuploading RSS files, like all
   the RSS files in wp-includes, and the feed files in your web root, too.
 *  Thread Starter [angela3fold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angela3fold/)
 * (@angela3fold)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-rss-feed-feed-validation-error/#post-1183649)
 * Just retried that. No go. Thanks for the suggestion, but it still isn’t working.
 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-rss-feed-feed-validation-error/#post-1183735)
 * Well, your theme is kicking out a valid URL for the feed, so keep replacing files.
   Something went wrong during the upgrade….
 *  [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
 * (@iridiax)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-rss-feed-feed-validation-error/#post-1183789)
 * Do you have a file named **feed.php** in the main **blog** folder?
 *  Thread Starter [angela3fold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angela3fold/)
 * (@angela3fold)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-rss-feed-feed-validation-error/#post-1183941)
 * Yes, I do.
 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-rss-feed-feed-validation-error/#post-1183955)
 * That XML error is occuring on the first line of whatever file the feed generator
   is trying to use, so try replacing files. Save your theme and any other files
   you’ve changed and do your upgrade over again
 *  [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
 * (@iridiax)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-rss-feed-feed-validation-error/#post-1183990)
 * feed.php belongs in the wp-includes folder, not in the main blog folder. It sounds
   like you have some misplaced files, so like songdogtech suggests, try your upgrade
   again. You can manually “upgrade” to the same version again. See:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended](http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended)
 *  Thread Starter [angela3fold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angela3fold/)
 * (@angela3fold)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-rss-feed-feed-validation-error/#post-1184014)
 * You were absolutely right! Despite reloading all the files, for whatever reason,
   all the old site files were staying put and must have been causing the issues.
   I moved all the excess files to another folder and it works again!
 * Thank you so much for your help!

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 * [RSS](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rss/)
 * [validate](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/validate/)

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 * Last reply from: [angela3fold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angela3fold/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-rss-feed-feed-validation-error/#post-1184014)
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