Title: Feed won’t validate
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Feed won’t validate

 *  [primamedia20](https://wordpress.org/support/users/primamedia20/)
 * (@primamedia20)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-wont-validate-1/)
 * My blog is [http://www.marialiberati.com/blog2](http://www.marialiberati.com/blog2)
 * I cna not validate my feed. these are he messages I receive when trying to test
   validity of my feed:
 * parsing error <unknown> :3:0: junk after document header
 * feed encoded as utf-8 server reports US-ASC II
 * feeds should not be served with text and html media type
 * At the top of my blog appears:
    warning header cannot be modified error Please
   help can;t figure out to how to get a valid feed

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-wont-validate-1/#post-643382)
 * [http://www.marialiberati.com/blog2/?feed=rss2](http://www.marialiberati.com/blog2/?feed=rss2)
   
   I’d try to re-upload the file that the error is complaining about…
 *  [johnaugust](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnaugust/)
 * (@johnaugust)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-wont-validate-1/#post-643800)
 * I’m having the same issue since upgrading to 2.6.2.
 * [http://johnaugust.com/feed](http://johnaugust.com/feed)
 * and
 * [http://johnaugust.com/comments/feed](http://johnaugust.com/comments/feed)
 * both come back with: Blank line before XML declaration.
 * The main feed also has another error, which I’m trying to track down.
 *  [johnaugust](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnaugust/)
 * (@johnaugust)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-wont-validate-1/#post-643801)
 * It’s clearly the dreaded blank line XML problem, but it’s frustrating since the
   only files that changed were the official WP ones.
 *  [johnaugust](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnaugust/)
 * (@johnaugust)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-wont-validate-1/#post-643802)
 * For me, this is what worked.
 * Deactivated all plugins.
    Checked that the feed validated. It did.
 * Reactivated plugins one-at-a-time, until the feed wouldn’t validate.
    Checked
   that last plug-in for extra lines, and sure enough, there they were.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [johnaugust](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnaugust/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-wont-validate-1/#post-643802)
 * Status: not resolved

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