Title: Error on SiteMap
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Error on SiteMap

 *  [drew82](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drew82/)
 * (@drew82)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-sitemap-2/)
 * I’m having an issue with my sitemap which is affecting my feed.
 * Here’s the message I’m getting:
 * This page contains the following errors:
 * error on line 2 at column 6: XML declaration allowed only at the start of the
   document
    Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.
 * Has anyone else experienced this? If so, how to resolve this?
 * Here’s my site so you can actually see what’;s happening.
 * [http://www.shadeofinfo.com/sitemap.xml](http://www.shadeofinfo.com/sitemap.xml)
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/)

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 *  [giosafat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/giosafat/)
 * (@giosafat)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-sitemap-2/#post-5719565)
 * Hi drew82, i have the same issue, how did you soved?
 *  [Texiwill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/texiwill/)
 * (@texiwill)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-sitemap-2/#post-5719581)
 * Ensure you do not have a blank line after your closing `?>` in functions.php 
   or any other theme file/plugin you normally edit.
 *  [giosafat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/giosafat/)
 * (@giosafat)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-sitemap-2/#post-5719583)
 * Thanks, that was the problem.

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 * ![](https://ps.w.org/google-sitemap-generator/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=2713572)
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 * Last reply from: [giosafat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/giosafat/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-sitemap-2/#post-5719583)
 * Status: not resolved