Title: RSS Feed Error
Last modified: August 19, 2016
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# RSS Feed Error
* Resolved [yakattak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yakattak/)
* (@yakattak)
* [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-21/)
* I can’t really place when this happened, or if I installed something then it
stopped working, but I have been getting the following error on my RSS feed page:
[http://yakattakstudios.com/?feed=rss2](http://yakattakstudios.com/?feed=rss2)
* I have no idea what file to edit nor would I have any idea how to fix it if I
knew the file. Any thoughts?
* Thanks in advance
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* [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/)
* (@stvwlf)
* [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-21/#post-1246530)
* Hi
* Validating your RSS feed shows this code appearing before the XML line, which
must be the first line
* ```
```
* Do a View Source on your home page – you will see those same lines appearing
on your live website, before the DOCTYPE declaration.
* You need to find out where they are coming from and remove them. When you get
it clean on the live site, that should also clean up the feed problem. Start
with your theme’s header.php, but it could be coming from elsewhere.
* Thread Starter [yakattak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yakattak/)
* (@yakattak)
* [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-21/#post-1246557)
* Oh, that’s from the Google Sitemap verification I believe. I know where to start
and will try it out.
* Thanks
* Thread Starter [yakattak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yakattak/)
* (@yakattak)
* [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-21/#post-1246559)
* Okay, I removed the meta tag from index.php and that line has gone away from
the source, however, it just moved the line that the error was on up one, but
on that line I see nothing wrong with it =/.
* Anymore ideas?
* [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
* (@iridiax)
* [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-21/#post-1246561)
* Which index.php did you edit, the main WordPress one or your theme’s one? **Never**
edit the main WordPress index.php, and if you did, use FTP to replace it with
a freshly downloaded copy from WordPress.
* Thread Starter [yakattak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yakattak/)
* (@yakattak)
* [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-21/#post-1246563)
* > Which index.php did you edit, the main WordPress one or your theme’s one? Never
> edit the main WordPress index.php, and if you did, use FTP to replace it with
> a freshly downloaded copy from WordPress
* I edited the main one, and I replaced it, yet same issue.
* [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
* (@iridiax)
* [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-21/#post-1246564)
* Replacing the main index.php got rid of the bad code atop your feed and blog
pages, but you still have a different error in your feed:
* `Fatal error: Call to undefined function the_content_feed() in D:\Hosting\
4617680\html\wp-includes\feed-rss2.php on line 49 `
* My own feed-rss2.php doesn’t have the_content_feed() in it, so unless you or
a plugin added it, I’m not sure where this is coming from.
* Thread Starter [yakattak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yakattak/)
* (@yakattak)
* [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-21/#post-1246576)
* ```
'; ?>
>
<?php bloginfo_rss('name'); wp_title_rss(); ?><?php the_title_rss() ?>]]>]]>
post_content ) > 0 ) : ?>
]]>]]>
?>
```
* There is the code for my feed-rss2.php in Includes.
* [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
* (@iridiax)
* [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-21/#post-1246580)
* Your feed-rss2.php is not the same as the one that comes with WordPress 2.8.4.
Replace it with a feshly downloaded copy.
* If that does not work, you may wish to manually reupgrade to 2.8.4 since your
prior upgrade may have failed to replace all old files.
* [http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended](http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended)
* Thread Starter [yakattak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yakattak/)
* (@yakattak)
* [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-21/#post-1246603)
* Thanks, fixed it by uploading the RSS files again.
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## Tags
* [RSS](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rss/)
* [xml](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/xml/)
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