Title: RSS doesn’t work
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# RSS doesn’t work

 *  [unstablefears](https://wordpress.org/support/users/unstablefears/)
 * (@unstablefears)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-doesnt-work-2/)
 * Hi,
 * My RSS syndication doesn’t work.
 * [http://unstablefears.com](http://unstablefears.com)
 * It gives this error:
 * XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity
    Location:
   [http://unstablefears.com/?feed=comments-rss2](http://unstablefears.com/?feed=comments-rss2)
   Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?><!– generator=”
   wordpress/2.0″ –> ^

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 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-doesnt-work-2/#post-384725)
 * You have a plugin inserting a blank line into your feed. Usually this is caused
   by some plugin having a blank line at the very beginning of the plugin, before
   the <?php bit. Find and deactivate that plugin or find and remove the blank line.
 *  [arabrab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arabrab/)
 * (@arabrab)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-doesnt-work-2/#post-384771)
 * I’ve got the same problem: people keep telling me that my RSS-feed doesn’t work.
   I’ve checked all the files, but everything seems te be in order. Anyone?
 * [http://www.inkling.nl](http://www.inkling.nl)
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-doesnt-work-2/#post-384772)
 * Arabrab: Your RSS looks fine to me. My reader picks it up okay. However, you 
   do have the “feed:” in front of the link on the page, which may be what they’re
   not used to.
 *  [arabrab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arabrab/)
 * (@arabrab)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-doesnt-work-2/#post-384779)
 * That did the trick! Thanks!

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 * [RSS](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rss/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [arabrab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arabrab/)
 * Last activity: [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-doesnt-work-2/#post-384779)
 * Status: not resolved

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