Title: Feed & subscriptions Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Feed & subscriptions * [chrism19](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrism19/) * (@chrism19) * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-subscriptions/) * Hello, * I have 2 problems and if anyone can help me with either I’d be very grateful. * 1. When I try to set my feed as [http://mindfulnessman.com/feed/](http://mindfulnessman.com/feed/) I get this message when I click on the symbol on the site: * XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity Location: [http://mindfulnessman.com/feed/](http://mindfulnessman.com/feed/) Line Number 2, Column 1: ^ I haven’t a clue how to fix it or even if the feed link I have put in is correct. * 2. I changed how my site shows up in the browser as it was showing with numbers as a prefix. But now my posts aren’t being mailed out to my subscribers. (this is through jetpack) Could this be because they are subscribed to the site address with the numbers prefix? * I’m a total newbie so thank you very much for your help. * Chris Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-subscriptions/#post-4497681) * 1. The url is correct but something on your site is generating an error in the RSS feed. Can you replicate the problem using the default Twenty Fourteen theme with **all** plugins deactivated? * 2. Can you elaborate on exactly what you changed? * Thread Starter [chrism19](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrism19/) * (@chrism19) * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-subscriptions/#post-4497689) * Thank you. 1. I put [http://mindfulnessman.com/feed/](http://mindfulnessman.com/feed/) in the feed and put a widget on 2014 theme so I could see it. I deactivated plugins but got this error: XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity Location: [http://mindfulnessman.com/feed/](http://mindfulnessman.com/feed/) Line Number 2, Column 1: ^ * 2. I’m not sure how best to describe what I did but I followed these instructions below from my host and it worked. I basically changed it so the url just said mindfulnessman.com and not 11.69.991.mindfulnessman.com (something like that. Here are the instructions I received: Right click wp-config.php and select Code Edit. You can now see the username and database. * Next, log into your cPanel. Look for the Databases section. * Select the icon named phpMyAdmin (looks like a sailboat.) * Once here, you need to select the database name on the left. (i.e. “_wrd1”) * This will display the names of the Tables to the right. * Locate and select the Options table. * Next, the database entries are listed in columns and rows. You want to select the pencil icon (for Edit) on the left for line 1 (option_name is “site url”) * Once you’ve clicked the pencil icon, you will see your domain name listed something like this: * [http://example.com/](http://example.com/) * You want to change that to the URL You wish to use * This step is crucial so you don’t make a mistake. Please take a moment to verify the URL you are typing in here is correct, or you won’t see any change. * Once you’ve changed the URL, down at the bottom there is a “Go” button. Select the “Go” button. * Select the Next button to go to the next page * Look for the option_name home * phpMyAdmin Home * Select the pencil icon Pencil to Edit. * Make the same URL change here as you did for siteurl earlier. And click the “ Go” button. * Thanks for the help. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-subscriptions/#post-4497697) * 1. Try re-uploading all files & folders – **except** the root wp-config.php &. htaccess files and the the wp-content folder – from a **fresh** download of WordPress. Make sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones. * 2. The instructions from your hosts were correct but it could well be that new url was not updated for existing Jetpack subscriptions. Try asking Jetpack support about this via [http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jetpack](http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jetpack) * Thread Starter [chrism19](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrism19/) * (@chrism19) * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-subscriptions/#post-4497747) * 1. Thanks, I have no idea how or where to do this. Is there anywhere you can point me for help please? * 2. Thanks, I’ve contacted jetpack. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-subscriptions/#post-4497754) * You will need to use [FTP](http://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients) or whatever file management application your host provides. Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘Feed & subscriptions’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [RSS](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rss/) * [subscribers](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/subscribers/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 5 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-subscriptions/#post-4497754) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics