Title: Feedburner issue
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Feedburner issue

 *  [kgwinn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kgwinn/)
 * (@kgwinn)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedburner-issue-1/)
 * I was just notified by a reader that Feedburner hasn’t been updating my subscribers
   for at least a month now. Evidently there is a blank line at the top of my XML
   file. I have gone through all my plug-ins and there are no extra lines at the
   top before the <php ? code.
 * I keep getting this on Feedburner: “
 * The URL you entered does not appear to be a valid feed. We encountered the following
   problem: Error on line 2: The processing instruction target matching “[xX][mM][
   lL]” is not allowed.
 * Any help – this is driving me crazy!

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedburner-issue-1/#post-2631005)
 * Have you tried:
 * – deactivating **all** plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works,
   re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
 * – switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.
 * – [resetting the plugins folder](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F)
   by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause
   problems.
 *  Thread Starter [kgwinn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kgwinn/)
 * (@kgwinn)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedburner-issue-1/#post-2631012)
 * I have deactivated all plug-ins and that didn’t help.
    I switched to the Twenty
   Eleven theme – no help either.
 * I don’t have any inactive plugins – i just delete them if I don’t use them… Should
   I still try resetting the folder?
 * Thanks Esmi.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedburner-issue-1/#post-2631014)
 * Site url?
 *  Thread Starter [kgwinn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kgwinn/)
 * (@kgwinn)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedburner-issue-1/#post-2631015)
 * [http://www.karapearson.com/blog](http://www.karapearson.com/blog)
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedburner-issue-1/#post-2631019)
 * Can we see the site using Twenty Eleven with all plugins deactivated?
 *  Thread Starter [kgwinn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kgwinn/)
 * (@kgwinn)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedburner-issue-1/#post-2631023)
 * ok, done.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedburner-issue-1/#post-2631025)
 * Wow! That increased the site’s download speed by a factor of about 10! But you
   still have RSS feed issues. Try re-uploading all files & folders – **except**
   the wp-content folder – from a **fresh** download of WordPress.
 *  Thread Starter [kgwinn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kgwinn/)
 * (@kgwinn)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedburner-issue-1/#post-2631034)
 * Ok, I am about to do that. Will I have to rebuild the blog?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedburner-issue-1/#post-2631040)
 * Nope. Everything will be safe inside your database.
 *  Thread Starter [kgwinn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kgwinn/)
 * (@kgwinn)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedburner-issue-1/#post-2631044)
 * ok done!
 *  Thread Starter [kgwinn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kgwinn/)
 * (@kgwinn)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedburner-issue-1/#post-2631045)
 * Looks like that worked for the RSS feed validator! Can I reinstate everything(
   and think about changing themes so the download speed is better!)?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedburner-issue-1/#post-2631046)
 * Yay! Your feed is now working! 🙂
 * Now you need to switch back to your old them to see if the feed breaks. Don’t
   activate any plugins yet.
 *  Thread Starter [kgwinn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kgwinn/)
 * (@kgwinn)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedburner-issue-1/#post-2631048)
 * Ok, switched to the old theme and now it’s broken again 🙁
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedburner-issue-1/#post-2631050)
 * > and think about changing themes so the download speed is better
 * I think it would be worthwhile spending some time determining what was slowing
   the site down so badly before. It took me three attempts to load the site with
   the old theme & all plugins running because the server kept timing out. With 
   2011 and no plugins, the home page loaded in 2 or 3 seconds – a huge difference
   in performance.
 *  Thread Starter [kgwinn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kgwinn/)
 * (@kgwinn)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedburner-issue-1/#post-2631054)
 * I was assuming it was the flash header with 6 different images that was slowing
   it down… Wow. that is crazy!

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