Title: Extra html appearing in the start of my posts
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Extra html appearing in the start of my posts

 *  Resolved [T](https://wordpress.org/support/users/celestinechua/)
 * (@celestinechua)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra/)
 * Hi!
 * I have an extra “<” (without quotes) appearing in the beginning of my posts which
   is causing the first html tag in every post to appear as text.
 * An example can be seen in any of my posts. Simply look at the first line of the
   post and you will see a html tag appearing where it shouldn’t, such as <p>, or
   <div> –
 * [http://personalexcellence.co/blog/the-one/](http://personalexcellence.co/blog/the-one/)
   
   [http://personalexcellence.co/blog/ask-celes-profit-or-passion/](http://personalexcellence.co/blog/ask-celes-profit-or-passion/)
   [http://personalexcellence.co/blog/the-night-i-cried/](http://personalexcellence.co/blog/the-night-i-cried/)
 * If you look at the HTML code, it says “<p><<img src=” ….”, and I believe that
   extra “<” is what’s causing the first HTML tag of every post to appear in the
   body text. However, I don’t know where it’s coming from. I’ve checked my code
   for single.php but I do not see anything weird/wrong. That extra “<“, of course,
   isn’t coming from the posts themselves.
 * This issue just came up a day ago and I have not made any changes to the code
   or installed any new plugins. Can anyone advise what I can do? Thanks so much
   in advance!

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 *  [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/)
 * (@swansonphotos)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra/#post-3559431)
 * As you mentioned single.php, can you review all page templates that have been
   modified of late? If a caching plugin was in use, you may not have noticed right
   away this simple syntax error…
 * Please note: your root site is not up to date:
 * [http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/personalexcellence.co/](http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/personalexcellence.co/)
 * Also, take a better look at your plugins…
 *  Thread Starter [T](https://wordpress.org/support/users/celestinechua/)
 * (@celestinechua)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra/#post-3559432)
 * Okay, found the problem!
 * Turns out I had an extra comma in one of my links which I input in my SEO Auto
   Linker plugin which caused the trailing < in my posts. I’ve fixed it.
 * Thanks everyone for reading this! Leaving this post intact just in case anyone
   faces the same problem.

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 * Last reply from: [T](https://wordpress.org/support/users/celestinechua/)
 * Last activity: [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra/#post-3559432)
 * Status: resolved

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