Title: rss feed error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# rss feed error

 *  [adminmgfra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adminmgfra/)
 * (@adminmgfra)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-22/)
 * This is actually a problem that began when I upgraded to the latest version, 
   2.8.5
 * I am now getting this error message when clicking the rss button on the top of
   my page:
 * XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
    Location: 
   [http://www.mgfra.org/?feed=rss2](http://www.mgfra.org/?feed=rss2) Line Number
   3, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> ^
 * My site is [http://www.mgfra.org](http://www.mgfra.org)
 * Any help would be appreciated.
 * Thanks,
    Peter

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-22/#post-1260143)
 * There are 2 blank lines at the top of your RSS feed. Could be related to one 
   of your theme’s template files that has similar blank lines at the top (before
   the opening `<?php` tag) or bottom (after the closing `?>` tag). You might want
   to check header.php. Looks like there a few blank lines at the top of that file.
 *  Thread Starter [adminmgfra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adminmgfra/)
 * (@adminmgfra)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-22/#post-1260443)
 * Thanks for the help, unfortunately that is a little more complicated than my 
   ability. Any other suggestions on how to correct this issue?

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 * Last reply from: [adminmgfra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adminmgfra/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-22/#post-1260443)
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